# How to delete app data while uninstall forge app?

**URL:** <https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/how-to-delete-app-data-while-uninstall-forge-app/50911>\
**Category:** Jira Cloud\
**Tags:** data-retention, jira-cloud, forge-storage, forge\
**Created:** [August 11, 2021, 12:28pm UTC](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/how-to-delete-app-data-while-uninstall-forge-app/50911 "2021-08-11T12:28:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![SuryaA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@SuryaA](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/u/SuryaA)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 12:28pm UTC](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/how-to-delete-app-data-while-uninstall-forge-app/50911/1 "2021-08-11T12:28:00Z")

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Hai all,  
I created one forge app and planned to publish this app in atlassian marketplace. Before that i need to do self validation. I deployed the app for production and installed app in my atlassian site. After installing the app in my instance, i stored some data at app side. I uninstalled app from admin page-\>manage your apps-\>app name-\>uninstall. While i reinstalled the app again, the data that i stored before is in the app at that time also.

How can i delete that data after uninstalled app?

Thanks in advance…

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**Author:** ![bentley](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/atlassiandeveloper/user_avatar/community.developer.atlassian.com/bentley/32/36116_2.png) [@bentley](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/u/bentley)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 12:58pm UTC](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/how-to-delete-app-data-while-uninstall-forge-app/50911/2 "2021-08-11T12:58:55Z")

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The data is automatically deleted after some period of time:

> [@How do I delete all forge storage data for an instance](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/how-do-i-delete-all-forge-storage-data-for-an-instance/49980/2):
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> We wait a few weeks before clearing out the data after uninstall. Its still within our 30 day privacy policy window but not so fast that if the customer regrets the uninstall that they can’t reinstall and find that all of their data is still present.

Otherwise, you’d have to delete the data yourself. I don’t think that we give you an uninstall lifecycle hook that you could use to trigger the cleanup yourself, unfortunately.

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**Author:** ![SuryaA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@SuryaA](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/u/SuryaA)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2021, 3:47am UTC](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/how-to-delete-app-data-while-uninstall-forge-app/50911/3 "2021-08-12T03:47:15Z")

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Hai @bentley Thanks for your response.