# Turn Actions off, replace a schema, or remove an Action

> Pause all of a Chirp's Actions at once, update an Action with a new schema, or remove it.

Source: https://www.chirpbuilder.com/help/actions/turn-off-replace-remove  
Plans: Essentials, Creator, Business, Academy  
Last checked: 2026-10-27

When you're done, your Chirp's Actions are paused, updated or gone, as you need.

**Who can do this:** the account owner on any plan, and workspace admins and editors. An editor who
can't publish can replace or remove, but someone who can publish has to click **Publish changes**.

## Turn all Actions off

At the top of **7. Actions**, switch **Actions on** off. "Turning Actions off applies right away, for
visitors too. Your settings are kept." Switch it on again any time.

![The top of the Actions section with the Actions on switch outlined, and its note that turning Actions off applies right away, for visitors too.](https://mjmtbasmrtksluvlnema.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/help-media/web-optimized/actions/turn-off-replace-remove/SS-ACT-065-02__actions-switch__essentials__detail__v01.webp?v=6104ac1255)

With Actions off, the Chirp (and your preview) can't use them, and it tells people it can't check or do
that right now. Handy while you fix an Action whose calls keep failing.

## Replace the schema

When the API changes, open the Action and click **Replace schema** (1). Paste the new schema and click
**Replace**.

![The bottom of the US weather and frost alerts Action, with Replace schema (1) and Remove (2).](https://mjmtbasmrtksluvlnema.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/help-media/web-optimized/actions/turn-off-replace-remove/SS-ACT-065-01__manage__essentials__desktop__v01.webp?v=458f1ce662)

"Operations keep their on/off switches, and the API key stays." Operations with the same method and path
keep their settings. One whose method or path changed counts as new. New operations are switched on
(up to 30 across the Chirp). Your **Authentication** choice stays, unless the new schema uses another
kind of sign-in: then the schema's replaces it, so check **Authentication** afterwards. "Schema
replaced. Publish to use it for visitors."

## Remove an Action

Click **Remove** (2) and confirm: "Remove the Action "…"? Visitors keep using it until you publish." Then
click **Publish changes**. Its key is deleted once you publish (on a draft Chirp, straight away). Its
call history stays until it ages out.

## Good to know

- **Replacing and removing need publishing;** the **Actions on** switch and keys don't.
- **Discard** in the bar at the top brings a removed Action back, until you publish. It throws away
  every change you haven't published, not only this one. A draft Chirp has no Discard.
- **Going back to an earlier version** brings back that version's Actions, but not the keys of Actions
  you removed and published: those show **Needs an API key**. Add the key again, then publish.