How do I see and remove apps that have access to my Gmail?

Last reviewed: October 29, 2026 · Markdown version

The list is in your Google Account, not in Gmail's settings. Google calls these "linked apps", and its page for managing them sends you to one address, myaccount.google.com/linkedapps (Manage links between your Google Account & apps from other developers, read 29 October 2026). Everything on this page comes from that help page and its companion, except where we say otherwise.

The steps

Go to your Google Account's linked apps page.
Select Access to your Google Account. To narrow the list to apps that reach a particular product such as Gmail, Google says to "select Access to Google product or Other account access".
Pick the app and select See details to "Review the access that the linked app has to your Google Account."
To cut it off: "select Remove access Confirm".

Google's warning about the result is short: "If you remove access, the app can’t access your Google Account. This may make some features unavailable."

One app, two kinds of link

An app you signed in to with Google can sit on the same page under Sign in with Google as well as under account access. They are separate. Removing the sign-in link means "Google stops automatic sign-in to the app. This doesn’t delete your data on the app" (the linked apps page above). If the point is to stop an app reading or changing your mail, the access entry is the one that matters.

What removing does not undo

Revoking stops future access. It does not reach into the app's own systems. Google's companion page says that once access is revoked "they can’t access your data anymore. You may need to contact the developer of the app to request that they delete the data they already have" (Share some access to your Google Account data with apps from other developers, read 29 October 2026). The same page explains why the list deserves a careful read: an app given access to manage your data "can edit, create, and delete data in your Google Account". If something looks wrong, the linked apps page has Report this app at the bottom of an app's details.

What to look for when you review the list

Anything you do not recognise. Remove it first and find out later; signing back in to a tool you still use is a minute's work.
Old access for a one-off job. Tools you tried once keep their access until you remove it, as far as either Google page says; the companion page mentions time-limited access only "In some cases", for 30 or 180 days.
A password you typed into an app. Google is plain that you should not: "If you share your Google Account password with a third-party app, they’ll have full access to your Google Account" (the companion page above). If you ever did, change the password.

The first two bullets are our advice, not Google's.

If Adinand Email Cleaner is on the list

Adinand Email Cleaner is one of these apps, and you remove it the same way. What it asks Gmail for, in full: gmail.modify, to move messages to Trash and change labels; gmail.settings.basic, to create and delete the Gmail filters behind its auto-trash rules; and userinfo.email, to show which account is signed in. That first permission lets it change mail, not only look at it. The processing happens on your device, the app has no servers of its own, and it asks Gmail for message headers, never message bodies.

One thing to know before you remove it: its auto-trash rules are ordinary Gmail filters that run inside Gmail, so they keep working after its access is gone. To stop them too, delete them under Filters and Blocked Addresses; deleting a Gmail filter has the steps.