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Manage a Connected App

Available in: both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience
Connected Apps can be created in: Group, Professional, Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions

Connected Apps can be installed in: All Editions


User Permissions Needed
To read: “Customize Application”
To create, update, or delete: “Customize Application” AND either

“Modify All Data” OR “Manage Connected Apps

To update all fields except Profiles, Permission Sets, and Service Provider SAML Attributes: “Customize Application”
To update Profiles, Permission Sets, and Service Provider SAML Attributes: “Customize Application” AND “Modify All Data”
To uninstall: “Download AppExchange Packages”
To view and update properties of a connected app, from Setup, enter Connected Apps in the Quick Find box, then select the option for managing connected apps. Find the app, and click Edit next to it. To view information, usage, and policies for a connected app, or add custom attributes, click the app’s name.

Sessions refresh automatically between every 15 minutes and 12 hours while a user is in the app based upon the session Timeout value set for your organization; this is often undetected by the user.

Note

Connected Apps Installed by Salesforce

Some Salesforce client apps are implemented as connected apps and automatically installed in your organization, such as Salesforce1 or Salesforce for Outlook. So you might see more connected apps in your list of installed apps than you expected.

These Salesforce connected apps are distributed in two managed packages: one for Salesforce1-related apps and one for non-Salesforce1-related apps. The list of included apps can change with each release. However, to simplify administration, each package is asynchronously installed in your organization the first time any user in the organization accesses one of these apps.

If you want to install (or reinstall) the Salesforce1 package for connected apps, proactively, you can install it from the AppExchange.

The packages appear in Setup under the Installed Packages List.

The packages in the Installed Packages List

Click on each Package Name to see the list of components. The following are some of the components for the Salesforce Connected Apps package.

The components of the Salesforce Connected Apps

The Force.com IDE, Force.com Migration Tool, Dataloader Bulk, and Dataloader Partner are “wrapper” connected apps that use the SOAP API to connect to Salesforce, instead of OAuth like other connected apps. But, they use the connected apps framework to allow or deny users access to the apps in an organization.

Note

The following are some of the components for the Salesforce1 and Chatter Apps package.

The components of the Salesforce1 and Chatter Apps

To manage these installed connected apps, from Setup, enter Connected Apps in the Quick Find box, then select the option for managing connected apps, and you’ll see the automatically installed Salesforce connected apps appear in the list as managed package installed apps along with your other installed connected apps.

Example of the list of connected apps