How to delete messages on Apollo

Currently, you can only delete chat messages that you’ve sent and not the ones you’ve received. Deleting a chat message means that it will no longer be visible for anyone in the chat, not just yourself.

The process for deleting a chat message is slightly different depending on what platform you’re on.

• On the web, hover over the message you want to delete, then click the trash icon. 
• On the iOS and Android app, press and hold a message that you sent and select Delete message. 

If you think a chat message may violate Reddit’s Content Policy, report it. 

If you have more questions that aren’t covered in these FAQs, check out r/help. Someone may have had the same question, or you can ask a new one and a Reddit administrator or one of your fellow redditors will help you out.

Events can be deleted in two ways

• By deleting the event message (requires the Manage Messages permission)
• By clicking the Delete button on the event message

Deleting the event message will instantly delete the event. If the Edit button is clicked, a confirmation prompt will be sent via a direct message.

Note

When an event is deleted that Apollo has created a thread for, the thread is automatically archived.

Recurring events¶

If an event message for a recurring event is deleted, the underlying series is not deleted.

When the Delete button is selected for a recurring event, a prompt will ask if you'd like to delete the current event only, or if you'd like to delete the current event and prevent all future occurrences.

To delete a recurring event without also deleting an individual event, use the /edit command and select the option to modify a recurring series. After selecting the series you'd like to delete, select the option to delete the series.

Info

Deleting a recurring series does not delete associated events; they become regular one time events.

Controlling access¶

By default, users can only delete their own events. If a user clicks on the Delete button for an event they don't own, they will receive a direct message indicating that they are missing permissions.

Users with the Manage Server permission can delete any event.

To allow additional users to delete events, you can assign an event deletion role with /settings role delete. This will allow any user with the given role to delete events.