# Un-impersonating a user on mobile?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/un-impersonating-a-user-on-mobile/126789
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** impersonate
**Created:** [August 25, 2019, 8:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/un-impersonating-a-user-on-mobile/126789 "2019-08-25T20:10:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![Heather\_Dudley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/heather_dudley/32/151925_2.png) [@Heather\_Dudley](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Heather_Dudley)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2019, 8:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/un-impersonating-a-user-on-mobile/126789/1 "2019-08-25T20:10:27Z")

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While troubleshooting a user’s tutorial issues, I impersonated them to see if they had bookmarked the new user tutorial message. They had (didn’t trigger the next step, but they also had three tutorial messages in progress, so troubleshooting that) but then I couldn’t get back to admin. Had to log out.

Is there a way to return to your account on mobile after impersonating a user?

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2019, 8:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/un-impersonating-a-user-on-mobile/126789/2 "2019-08-25T20:27:05Z")

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Logging out is the only way, even on desktop.

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### Author: ![Heather\_Dudley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/heather_dudley/32/151925_2.png) [@Heather\_Dudley](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Heather_Dudley)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2019, 9:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/un-impersonating-a-user-on-mobile/126789/3 "2019-08-25T21:00:23Z")

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Well, that would be why. Thanks!

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2019, 4:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/un-impersonating-a-user-on-mobile/126789/4 "2019-08-26T04:52:45Z")

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An alternative is deleting cookies on the site, most browsers, even mobile ones have a facility for deleting cookies.

You can also use a browser window logged in as admins and looking through sessions on the user page log out a specific session.

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2019, 4:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/un-impersonating-a-user-on-mobile/126789/5 "2019-09-25T04:52:52Z")

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