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Microsoft Account connected apps management
Why is there no visible “Connected apps” management page in Microsoft Account?
I noticed that third-party applications connected to a personal Microsoft account can be managed at:
https://account.live.com/consent/Manage
However, I cannot find any obvious navigation path to this page from the main Microsoft Account portal:
https://account.microsoft.com/
The main account portal provides sections such as Security, Privacy, Devices, Subscriptions, and Your info, but there does not appear to be a visible “Connected apps”, “Apps and services”, or “App permissions” entry.
I only discovered the consent management page after receiving a Microsoft security notification that a new application had been granted access to my Microsoft account. The “Manage your apps” button in that email links to the older account.live.com consent page.
This creates two usability and security concerns:
Users may not know where to review or revoke third-party OAuth permissions unless they still have the original security notification email.
Microsoft Account management currently uses both microsoft.com and live.com domains, which can be confusing for users trying to verify whether an account-management page is an official Microsoft page.
Would it be possible to add a visible “Connected apps”, “Apps and services”, or “App permissions” entry under Security or Privacy in account.microsoft.com?
This would not require redesigning the existing consent system. Even a simple link from account.microsoft.com to the existing account.live.com/consent/Manage page would make third-party permission management much easier to discover.
Is there currently an official navigation path to this page that I may have missed?
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You can access it under Privacy > App access or directly via https://account.microsoft.com/privacy/app-access
This is basically the "modern" view of the same page, with the exact same data exposed. You can also get to it via Apps and services, but with few additional clicks are required.
Thanks for the clarification. I found the modern page at:
https://account.microsoft.com/privacy/app-access
That resolves most of my original concern about discoverability.
One inconsistency still remains, though: Microsoft’s own security notification emails still use the older http://account.live.com/consent/Manage URL for the “Manage your apps” button.
I understand that live.com is an official Microsoft domain and is likely retained for historical compatibility with the older Microsoft Account infrastructure. However, if Microsoft Account management is being modernized around account.microsoft.com, it would make sense to modernize these user-facing links as well.
Maintaining the legacy endpoint for compatibility is understandable, but users ideally should not need to interact with that legacy layer directly when an equivalent modern page already exists.
Updating security notification emails to point to:
https://account.microsoft.com/privacy/app-access
while keeping the old account.live.com endpoint available for backward compatibility would provide a more consistent and modern account-management experience.
In other words, the legacy infrastructure can remain behind the scenes for compatibility, while the user-facing experience consistently uses the current Microsoft Account domain and navigation model.
