# Locking Surveys

Locking a survey provides extra protection by preventing anyone from making changes to it. This is useful when a survey is deployed and running in production. Locking a survey also prevents you from clearing the respondent data or deleting the survey entirely.

In order to lock a survey click on the “unlocked” icon <img src="https://119549198-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-M4FwhscRQChKN5sELQq%2F-M5YE3MqmTf2ElD3Zkkd%2F-M5YG3f1bQip8fOlhr8R%2Fsurvey_manager_unlocked.png?alt=media&#x26;token=a0fc7a64-5011-4481-b2ba-612588e233ab" alt="" data-size="line">. This opens a dialog window that asks users to re-enter their password.

<div align="left"><img src="https://119549198-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-M4FwhscRQChKN5sELQq%2F-M5YE3MqmTf2ElD3Zkkd%2F-M5YG3ev19aFYLN6jRtn%2Fsurvey_manager_lock_dialog.png?alt=media&#x26;token=88572c5d-6fbb-4b46-a052-039f7d916582" alt=""></div>

Entering the correct password locks the survey, as indicated by the “locked” icon <img src="https://119549198-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-M4FwhscRQChKN5sELQq%2F-M5YE3MqmTf2ElD3Zkkd%2F-M5YG3ewhRq5AfGk67Lv%2Fsurvey_manager_locked.png?alt=media&#x26;token=8d2805c9-022a-449c-8e2c-ae9772e8f2a4" alt="" data-size="line">. Locking a survey disables its Edit, Clear and Delete icons.

To unlock a survey click on the locked icon and enter your password. This returns the survey to the unlocked state and all available actions become active again.