# How to delete a room? **URL:** \ **Category:** JavaScript\ **Tags:** sendbird-call\ **Created:** [June 28, 2021, 6:35pm UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/how-to-delete-a-room/2538 "2021-06-28T18:35:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mark](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.sendbird.com/mark/32/1353_2.png) [@mark](https://community.sendbird.com/u/mark)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2021, 6:35pm UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/how-to-delete-a-room/2538/1 "2021-06-28T18:35:54Z")
The call documentation states that a room can only be deleted through the Platform API, but there is no documentation on how to do so. ---
**Author:** ![Woo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.sendbird.com/woo/32/125_2.png) [@Woo](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Woo)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2021, 6:52pm UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/how-to-delete-a-room/2538/2 "2021-06-28T18:52:40Z")
hi @mark I think the section is missing 😭 and my colleague just tested its not supported at the moment. I will ping to engineers if its possible to support delete room. ---
**Author:** ![taempark](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.sendbird.com/taempark/32/1040_2.png) [@taempark](https://community.sendbird.com/u/taempark)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 1:52am UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/how-to-delete-a-room/2538/3 "2021-06-29T01:52:22Z")
@mark , following up with @Woo 's answer, we are planning to ship this feature at least in July. ---
**Author:** ![mark](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.sendbird.com/mark/32/1353_2.png) [@mark](https://community.sendbird.com/u/mark)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 9:18am UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/how-to-delete-a-room/2538/4 "2021-06-29T09:18:52Z")
Ok thanks for the update @Woo @taempark. Is there any overhead in having orphan calls/groups at all? I guess charges only apply against actuall calls, so probably not? ---
**Author:** ![Reagan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.sendbird.com/reagan/32/1100_2.png) [@Reagan](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Reagan)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 7:19pm UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/how-to-delete-a-room/2538/6 "2021-07-09T19:19:45Z")
@Woo @taempark any update on when the delete room APIs will be released? We’re regularly seeing participants getting orphaned in rooms that we cannot clean up. This leads to a large amount of credit waste that we cannot control ---
**Author:** ![mark](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.sendbird.com/mark/32/1353_2.png) [@mark](https://community.sendbird.com/u/mark)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 7:34pm UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/how-to-delete-a-room/2538/7 "2021-07-09T19:34:04Z")
@Reagan that’s interesting to hear. I did not know the orphaned rooms used credit even though they were idle ---
**Author:** ![Reagan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.sendbird.com/reagan/32/1100_2.png) [@Reagan](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Reagan)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 7:44pm UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/how-to-delete-a-room/2538/8 "2021-07-09T19:44:57Z")
@mark the room itself doesn’t use credits. Having an orphaned participant in a room does ---
**Author:** ![Woo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.sendbird.com/woo/32/125_2.png) [@Woo](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Woo)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 7:50pm UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/how-to-delete-a-room/2538/9 "2021-07-09T19:50:03Z")
I think delete room platform api call will be added within this month, I will keep you guys post about the progress. Thanks for your patience! ---
**Author:** ![nleitman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.sendbird.com/nleitman/32/51_2.png) [@nleitman](https://community.sendbird.com/u/nleitman)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2021, 2:51pm UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/how-to-delete-a-room/2538/10 "2021-07-12T14:51:23Z")
Our server sends a keep-alive ping to check whether participants are really connected. If they aren’t, a participant who was disconnected without calling room.exit() will be exited by the server within about 1 minute. ---
**Author:** ![ajay\_bhimani](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.sendbird.com/ajay_bhimani/32/788_2.png) [@ajay\_bhimani](https://community.sendbird.com/u/ajay_bhimani)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2021, 1:33pm UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/how-to-delete-a-room/2538/11 "2021-07-29T13:33:56Z")
Hey @nleitman do we have any API to close/delete the room from the Android Platform ---
**Author:** ![Reagan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.sendbird.com/reagan/32/1100_2.png) [@Reagan](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Reagan)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2021, 3:33pm UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/how-to-delete-a-room/2538/12 "2021-08-23T15:33:51Z")
Any update on the delete room API? It does not appear to be available currently ---
**Author:** ![Woo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.sendbird.com/woo/32/125_2.png) [@Woo](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Woo)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2021, 5:21pm UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/how-to-delete-a-room/2538/13 "2021-08-23T17:21:29Z")
its in review process now, I will follow up here once its out.