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title: "Ways to remove the Announcer for Confluence app"
canonical: "https://support.appfire.com/space/SUPPORT/897515981/Ways%20to%20remove%20the%20Announcer%20for%20Confluence%20app"
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This article helps you delete the Announcer for Confluence app using the Rest API and from the backend. 

### 1. Removing the app from Rest API

We can delete the app by invoking the below API from Atlassian. Replace the placeholders for the admin user's BASE_URL, USERNAME, and PASSWORD in the CURL API below.

```
curl -X GET https://{BASE_URL}/rest/plugins/1.0/com.wittified.atl-announcer-confluence-key \
   -H "Content-Type: application/json" --user "{USERNAME}:{PASSWORD}"
```

### 2. Remove the app from the backend (proceed only if step #1 didn’t work)

1. Delete the app installation entry from the database. Below is a sample query in POSTGRES DB
2. Delete the app installation from the plugin cache. Per [this](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-manually-remove-malfunctioning-add-ons-113705118.html) documentation from Atlassian, the app can be present in the plugin cache directories below. Delete the jar file if the file name contains `announcer-confluence`.
  1. The <confluence-home>/bundled-plugins
  2. The <confluence-home>/plugin-cache
  3. The <confluence-home>/plugins-osgi-cache
  4. The <confluence-home>/plugins-temp
  5. The <confluence-install>/confluence/WEB-INF/lib
3. Restart the confluence instance, and check that the app has been removed from UPM.
4. Install the latest version of the app from the marketplace.

> 📝 This step requires access to the database and Confluence Home directory.