Can we delete User properties from Firebase Analytics?

Question

Firebase Analytics has a 'User properties', when we created one, we have 2 fields: name and description. When this property is created, I just have one option, which is edit.

This edit option only gives permission to change the description but not to change the user property name.

Is it possible to delete this user property?

Yes, I am also looking for this answer. There only `Edit` Option once the property is saved — Adarsh Madrecha, Oct 11 '16 at 09:11
This is like some kind of a joke. I really don't understand why Firebase does not add "remove" option? — Ugurcan Yildirim, Dec 26 '16 at 08:16

Alexander Thiele · Answer 1 · 2021-06-23T15:37:09.680

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Since 2016:

No, not yet.

The official statement is: at the moment, your only options are to create a new project or to wait until we add the ability to delete slots. No ETA on that yet.

from: Steve Ganem at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/firebase-talk/Z-dPnzcW_Gw

2021 Update:

The feature is now called: Custom Definitions
You cannot delete a custom definition
You can archive a custom definition

edited Jun 23 '21 at 15:37

answered Dec 02 '16 at 10:02

Alexander Thiele

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this is correct, and SUPER lame, It is October of 2017 and they have STILL have not implemented this. – Jared Oct 10 '17 at 02:41
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Still no ETA, but they said "deleting apps is being worked on an will be available in the near future" a year and a half ago. So near future > 1.5 years... yeah. https://groups.google.com/d/msg/firebase-talk/Z-dPnzcW_Gw/-mHAopERGAAJ – Jared Oct 10 '17 at 02:58
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Its 2018 now, still no `Remove` option. – hkchakladar Jan 09 '18 at 13:47
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jokes on you firebase..jokes on you. I also filed a ticket to the support and they answered that they, from the support, are also not able to delete UserProperties. wow – JacksOnF1re May 11 '18 at 08:02
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2018 has only 2 months to go and still no deletion. WOW – nstrelow Nov 07 '18 at 11:52
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Perhaps these properties are literally written on stone tablets and the backend scans them periodically... Can't believe Google would provide an API where you can't delete something you created... 2 years later – d4c0d312 Nov 19 '18 at 02:43
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2019 and still no delete option. WTF Firebase ? – Q.u.a.n.g L. Jan 05 '19 at 04:00
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Google, a multibillion dollar company, can't do simple CRUD :/ – Ray Li Feb 19 '19 at 23:43
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June 20198, nothing :) – toto_tata Jun 21 '19 at 14:07
See @mathew11's answer below. – iPhoney Aug 20 '19 at 08:44
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End of August 2020, still nothing… – Matt Komarnicki Aug 26 '20 at 11:39
2021, still nothing – Shinichi Kudo Mar 05 '21 at 09:18
Almost 5 years after i posted the Answer, was wondering if it's now possible. At least they added the feature to archive it – Alexander Thiele Jun 23 '21 at 15:18

score 8 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 03 '19 at 07:25

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It seems that an archive option has been recently added, it is also mentioned in the docs.

answered Jul 03 '19 at 07:25

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From the docs: If you have reached your limit of 25 user properties and need to create new ones, you can archive the ones that are no longer relevant, and then after 48 hours, create a new one. During the first 48 hours after archiving a user property, you can restore it. After 48 hours, the user property is permanently archived. To restore a user property during the 48 hours after archiving, you set and register a new property with the same name per the instructions in the preceding section. – iPhoney Aug 20 '19 at 08:43

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 12 '19 at 16:19

There's a workaround. You can reset current analytics for the user like this.

FirebaseApp.configure()

Analytics.setUserID("tt")

// Register properties test1, test2,…test26 (the 26 will fail)
for i in (1...26) {
    Analytics.setUserProperty("test", forName: "test\(i)")
}

Analytics.logEvent("bang", parameters: [:])

InstanceID.instanceID().deleteID { (error) in
    InstanceID.instanceID().getID(handler: { (token, err) in
        Analytics.resetAnalyticsData()

        Analytics.setUserID("tt")

        // Now you can set new 25 properties
        for i in (26...30) {
            Analytics.setUserProperty("test", forName: "test\(i)")
        }

        Analytics.logEvent("bang", parameters: [:])
    })
}

This is handy in case you export events to BigQuery for example.

Can we delete User properties from Firebase Analytics?

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Since 2016:

2021 Update: