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title: "Deleting secrets"
canonical: "https://support.appfire.com/space/SECC/477725968/Deleting%20secrets"
format: markdown
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> Macro (aura-html)

> ℹ️ [DECember 2023]  We have released an improved version of Security and Encryption for Confluence Cloud with enhanced security. Check out the [next steps for administrators](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SECC/pages/477727589).

## Overview

When you create a Secret macro, it is automatically available as an entity for the whole space.

> ℹ️ The secret macros belong to the space not the individual page.

Deleting a secret from a page does not remove the secret form the space

- to completely delete a secret from the space, you must delete the secret in the space

> 📝 You must also be either the space administrator or the secret owner to perform secret deletion from a space.

## Steps

In the Confluence left hand side bar menu

- <span style="color: #172b4d">choose </span>**Secret List**

![image](media://9b1554fd-7ec7-4854-9675-a607fcbf1c9e)

- <span style="color: #172b4d">select the title of the secret to be deleted</span>

> ℹ️ A page is displayed containing details of the secret.

![image](media://c6857d3a-ca72-4f9f-9dfb-8ee358754eb5)

- choose **Delete** to send the secret to space trash
- <span style="color: #172b4d">choose </span><span style="color: #172b4d">**Delete**</span><span style="color: #172b4d"> to confirm the deletion</span>

<span style="color: #172b4d">On the page with the secret, the Secret macro is rendered as locked and </span><span style="color: #172b4d">**(Deleted)**</span><span style="color: #172b4d">.</span>

![image](media://d9d226b4-4f06-4251-aafe-100eb4abb3f2)

> ℹ️ <span style="color: #172b4d">Editing the page and removing the secret macro is recommended.</span>

<span style="color: #172b4d">If you're a space administrator, you may restore or purge the space trash. This includes </span><span style="color: #172b4d">[restoring deleted secrets](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SECC/pages/477725994)</span><span style="color: #172b4d"> from the space trash.</span>