title: Is there ANY way to remove photo tags with facebook API?
body: <p>There are some old posts related to this topic but the API has since changed, so I wanted to ask again. Is there any way to remove photo tags with the Facebook API?</p>
  
  <p>I saw this documentation about deleting photo tags with the graph API.<br>
  <a href="https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/photo/#tags" rel="nofollow">https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/photo/#tags</a></p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>You can delete a tag for a particular user in the photo by issuing a HTTP DELETE request to /PHOTO_ID/tags/USER_ID or PHOTO_ID/tags?to=USER_ID.</p>
    
    <p>Deleting a tag on a photo requires the publish_stream permission and supports the following parameters.</p>
  
  <pre><code>Parameter    Description                                Type    Required
  
  to           USER_ID of the User to tag; can also be    string  yes
               provided in URL path (see above).       
  </code></pre>
    
    <p>If the deletion is successful, you get the following return.</p>
  
  <pre><code>Description                 Type
  
  If the deletion succeeded   boolean
  </code></pre>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>It did not work when I tried it. Instead, I always get the following error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>{
    "error": {
      "message": "(#3) Application does not have the capability to make this API call.", 
      "type": "OAuthException", 
      "code": 3
    }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I submitted a bug report to Facebook and they seemed to acknowledge a bug by putting it into "triaged" status.  Then a few weeks later, although several other developers had subscribed to the bug report, they closed the case with this explanation:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>We are prioritizing bugs based on impact to the developer community. As this bug report has not received much attention from other developers, we are closing it so as to better focus on the top issues. There is a good chance your issue is due to an implementation problem in which case you can try to find help on Stack Overflow.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>The bug report is here: <a href="https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/122135101317762" rel="nofollow">https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/122135101317762</a></p>
  
  <p>Can anyone help me figure out how to untag via the API?  My app is currently written as a Web app, not as a mobile one. </p>
  
  <p>Thank you in advance for any help on this.</p>