docs/content/issues/tracking-your-work-with-issues/closing-an-issue.md

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Closing an issue	You can close an issue when bugs are fixed, feedback is acted on, or to show that work is not planned.	Anyone can close an issue they opened.<br><br>Repository owners, collaborators on repositories owned by a personal account, and people with triage permissions or greater on repositories owned by an organization can close issues opened by others. {% data reusables.enterprise-accounts.emu-permission-repo %}	fpt ghes ghae ghec * * * *	Issues Project management	Close an issue

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Note: You can also close issues automatically with keywords in pull requests and commit messages. For more information, see "AUTOTITLE."

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{% data reusables.repositories.navigate-to-repo %} {% data reusables.repositories.sidebar-issues %}

1. In the list of issues, click the issue you'd like to close. {%- ifversion issue-close-reasons %}

2. Optionally, to change your reason for closing the issue, next to "Close issue," select {% octicon "triangle-down" aria-label="Select close issue reason" %}, then click a reason.

   

3. Click Close issue. {%- else %}

4. At the bottom of the comment box, click Close issue. {% endif %}