diff --git a/web/modals/threads/thread-settings-delete-tab.react.js b/web/modals/threads/thread-settings-delete-tab.react.js
index 72c4ef95f..b2e744a31 100644
--- a/web/modals/threads/thread-settings-delete-tab.react.js
+++ b/web/modals/threads/thread-settings-delete-tab.react.js
@@ -1,110 +1,109 @@
 // @flow
 
 import * as React from 'react';
 
 import {
   deleteThreadActionTypes,
   deleteThread,
 } from 'lib/actions/thread-actions';
 import { type SetState } from 'lib/types/hook-types.js';
 import { type ThreadInfo } from 'lib/types/thread-types';
 import {
   useDispatchActionPromise,
   useServerCall,
 } from 'lib/utils/action-utils';
 
 import Button from '../../components/button.react.js';
 import { useModalContext } from '../modal-provider.react.js';
 import css from './thread-settings-modal.css';
 
 type ThreadSettingsDeleteTabProps = {
-  +accountPassword: string,
-  +setAccountPassword: SetState<string>,
-  +onChangeAccountPassword: (event: SyntheticEvent<HTMLInputElement>) => void,
   +inputDisabled: boolean,
   +threadInfo: ThreadInfo,
   +setErrorMessage: SetState<string>,
 };
 
 function ThreadSettingsDeleteTab(
   props: ThreadSettingsDeleteTabProps,
 ): React.Node {
-  const {
-    accountPassword,
-    setAccountPassword,
-    onChangeAccountPassword,
-    inputDisabled,
-    threadInfo,
-    setErrorMessage,
-  } = props;
+  const { inputDisabled, threadInfo, setErrorMessage } = props;
 
   const modalContext = useModalContext();
   const dispatchActionPromise = useDispatchActionPromise();
   const callDeleteThread = useServerCall(deleteThread);
 
   const accountPasswordInputRef = React.useRef();
+  const [accountPassword, setAccountPassword] = React.useState('');
+
+  const onChangeAccountPassword = React.useCallback(
+    (event: SyntheticEvent<HTMLInputElement>) => {
+      const target = event.currentTarget;
+      setAccountPassword(target.value);
+    },
+    [],
+  );
 
   const deleteThreadAction = React.useCallback(async () => {
     try {
       const response = await callDeleteThread(threadInfo.id, accountPassword);
       modalContext.popModal();
       return response;
     } catch (e) {
       setErrorMessage(
         e.message === 'invalid_credentials'
           ? 'wrong password'
           : 'unknown error',
       );
       setAccountPassword('');
       accountPasswordInputRef.current?.focus();
       throw e;
     }
   }, [
     accountPassword,
     callDeleteThread,
     modalContext,
     setAccountPassword,
     setErrorMessage,
     threadInfo.id,
   ]);
 
   const onDelete = React.useCallback(
     (event: SyntheticEvent<HTMLElement>) => {
       event.preventDefault();
       dispatchActionPromise(deleteThreadActionTypes, deleteThreadAction());
     },
     [deleteThreadAction, dispatchActionPromise],
   );
 
   return (
     <>
       <div>
         <p className={css.italic}>
           Your thread will be permanently deleted. There is no way to reverse
           this.
         </p>
       </div>
       <div className={css.edit_thread_account_password}>
         <p className={css.confirm_account_password}>
           Please enter your account password to confirm your identity
         </p>
         <div className={css.form_title}>Account password</div>
         <div className={css.form_content}>
           <input
             type="password"
             placeholder="Personal account password"
             value={accountPassword}
             onChange={onChangeAccountPassword}
             disabled={inputDisabled}
             ref={accountPasswordInputRef}
           />
         </div>
       </div>
       <Button onClick={onDelete} variant="danger" disabled={inputDisabled}>
         Delete
       </Button>
     </>
   );
 }
 
 export default ThreadSettingsDeleteTab;
diff --git a/web/modals/threads/thread-settings-modal.react.js b/web/modals/threads/thread-settings-modal.react.js
index a7f070382..ce52a692f 100644
--- a/web/modals/threads/thread-settings-modal.react.js
+++ b/web/modals/threads/thread-settings-modal.react.js
@@ -1,301 +1,288 @@
 // @flow
 
 import classNames from 'classnames';
 import invariant from 'invariant';
 import * as React from 'react';
 
 import {
   deleteThreadActionTypes,
   changeThreadSettingsActionTypes,
   changeThreadSettings,
 } from 'lib/actions/thread-actions';
 import { createLoadingStatusSelector } from 'lib/selectors/loading-selectors';
 import { threadInfoSelector } from 'lib/selectors/thread-selectors';
 import { threadHasPermission, robotextName } from 'lib/shared/thread-utils';
 import {
   type ThreadInfo,
   threadTypes,
   threadPermissions,
   type ThreadChanges,
 } from 'lib/types/thread-types';
 import {
   useDispatchActionPromise,
   useServerCall,
 } from 'lib/utils/action-utils';
 
 import Button from '../../components/button.react';
 import { useModalContext } from '../../modals/modal-provider.react';
 import { useSelector } from '../../redux/redux-utils';
 import Modal from '../modal.react';
 import ThreadSettingsDeleteTab from './thread-settings-delete-tab.react';
 import ThreadSettingsGeneralTab from './thread-settings-general-tab.react';
 import css from './thread-settings-modal.css';
 import ThreadSettingsPrivacyTab from './thread-settings-privacy-tab.react';
 
 type TabType = 'general' | 'privacy' | 'delete';
 type TabProps = {
   +name: string,
   +tabType: TabType,
   +selected: boolean,
   +onClick: (tabType: TabType) => void,
 };
 class Tab extends React.PureComponent<TabProps> {
   render() {
     const classNamesForTab = classNames({
       [css['current-tab']]: this.props.selected,
       [css['delete-tab']]:
         this.props.selected && this.props.tabType === 'delete',
     });
     return (
       <li className={classNamesForTab} onClick={this.onClick}>
         <a>{this.props.name}</a>
       </li>
     );
   }
 
   onClick = () => {
     return this.props.onClick(this.props.tabType);
   };
 }
 
 type BaseProps = {
   +threadID: string,
 };
 
 const deleteThreadLoadingStatusSelector = createLoadingStatusSelector(
   deleteThreadActionTypes,
 );
 const changeThreadSettingsLoadingStatusSelector = createLoadingStatusSelector(
   changeThreadSettingsActionTypes,
 );
 
 const ConnectedThreadSettingsModal: React.ComponentType<BaseProps> = React.memo<BaseProps>(
   function ConnectedThreadSettingsModal(props) {
     const changeInProgress = useSelector(
       state =>
         deleteThreadLoadingStatusSelector(state) === 'loading' ||
         changeThreadSettingsLoadingStatusSelector(state) === 'loading',
     );
     const viewerID = useSelector(
       state => state.currentUserInfo && state.currentUserInfo.id,
     );
     const userInfos = useSelector(state => state.userStore.userInfos);
     const callChangeThreadSettings = useServerCall(changeThreadSettings);
     const dispatchActionPromise = useDispatchActionPromise();
     const threadInfo: ?ThreadInfo = useSelector(
       state => threadInfoSelector(state)[props.threadID],
     );
     const modalContext = useModalContext();
     const [errorMessage, setErrorMessage] = React.useState('');
-    const [accountPassword, setAccountPassword] = React.useState('');
     const [currentTabType, setCurrentTabType] = React.useState<TabType>(
       'general',
     );
     const [queuedChanges, setQueuedChanges] = React.useState<ThreadChanges>(
       Object.freeze({}),
     );
 
     const namePlaceholder: string = React.useMemo(() => {
       invariant(threadInfo, 'threadInfo should exist in namePlaceholder');
       return robotextName(threadInfo, viewerID, userInfos);
     }, [threadInfo, userInfos, viewerID]);
 
     const changeQueued: boolean = React.useMemo(
       () =>
         Object.values(queuedChanges).some(v => v !== null && v !== undefined),
       [queuedChanges],
     );
 
-    const onChangeAccountPassword = React.useCallback(
-      (event: SyntheticEvent<HTMLInputElement>) => {
-        const target = event.currentTarget;
-        setAccountPassword(target.value);
-      },
-      [],
-    );
-
     const hasPermissionForTab = React.useCallback(
       (thread: ThreadInfo, tab: TabType) => {
         if (tab === 'general') {
           return threadHasPermission(
             thread,
             threadPermissions.EDIT_THREAD_NAME,
           );
         } else if (tab === 'privacy') {
           return threadHasPermission(
             thread,
             threadPermissions.EDIT_PERMISSIONS,
           );
         } else if (tab === 'delete') {
           return threadHasPermission(thread, threadPermissions.DELETE_THREAD);
         }
         invariant(false, `invalid tab: ${tab}`);
       },
       [],
     );
 
     const changeThreadSettingsAction = React.useCallback(async () => {
       invariant(
         threadInfo,
         'threadInfo should exist in changeThreadSettingsAction',
       );
       try {
         const response = await callChangeThreadSettings({
           threadID: threadInfo.id,
           changes: queuedChanges,
         });
         modalContext.popModal();
         return response;
       } catch (e) {
         setErrorMessage('unknown_error');
-        setAccountPassword('');
         setCurrentTabType('general');
         setQueuedChanges(Object.freeze({}));
         throw e;
       }
     }, [callChangeThreadSettings, modalContext, queuedChanges, threadInfo]);
 
     const onSubmit = React.useCallback(
       (event: SyntheticEvent<HTMLElement>) => {
         event.preventDefault();
         dispatchActionPromise(
           changeThreadSettingsActionTypes,
           changeThreadSettingsAction(),
         );
       },
       [changeThreadSettingsAction, dispatchActionPromise],
     );
 
     React.useEffect(() => {
       if (
         threadInfo &&
         currentTabType !== 'general' &&
         !hasPermissionForTab(threadInfo, currentTabType)
       ) {
         setCurrentTabType('general');
       }
     }, [currentTabType, hasPermissionForTab, threadInfo]);
 
     if (!threadInfo) {
       return (
         <Modal onClose={modalContext.popModal} name="Invalid thread">
           <div className={css.modal_body}>
             <p>You no longer have permission to view this thread</p>
           </div>
         </Modal>
       );
     }
 
     const inputDisabled =
       changeInProgress || !hasPermissionForTab(threadInfo, currentTabType);
 
     let mainContent;
     if (currentTabType === 'general') {
       mainContent = (
         <ThreadSettingsGeneralTab
           inputDisabled={inputDisabled}
           threadInfo={threadInfo}
           threadNamePlaceholder={namePlaceholder}
           queuedChanges={queuedChanges}
           setQueuedChanges={setQueuedChanges}
         />
       );
     } else if (currentTabType === 'privacy') {
       mainContent = (
         <ThreadSettingsPrivacyTab
           inputDisabled={inputDisabled}
           threadInfo={threadInfo}
           queuedChanges={queuedChanges}
           setQueuedChanges={setQueuedChanges}
         />
       );
     } else if (currentTabType === 'delete') {
       mainContent = (
         <ThreadSettingsDeleteTab
-          accountPassword={accountPassword}
-          setAccountPassword={setAccountPassword}
-          onChangeAccountPassword={onChangeAccountPassword}
           inputDisabled={inputDisabled}
           threadInfo={threadInfo}
           setErrorMessage={setErrorMessage}
         />
       );
     }
 
     let buttons;
     if (currentTabType !== 'delete') {
       buttons = (
         <Button
           type="submit"
           onClick={onSubmit}
           disabled={inputDisabled || !changeQueued}
           className={css.save_button}
         >
           Save
         </Button>
       );
     }
 
     const tabs = [
       <Tab
         name="General"
         tabType="general"
         onClick={setCurrentTabType}
         selected={currentTabType === 'general'}
         key="general"
       />,
     ];
 
     // This UI needs to be updated to handle sidebars but we haven't gotten
     // there yet. We'll probably end up ripping it out anyways, so for now we
     // are just hiding the privacy tab for any thread that was created as a
     // sidebar
     const canSeePrivacyTab =
       (queuedChanges['parentThreadID'] ?? threadInfo['parentThreadID']) &&
       threadInfo.sourceMessageID &&
       (threadInfo.type === threadTypes.COMMUNITY_OPEN_SUBTHREAD ||
         threadInfo.type === threadTypes.COMMUNITY_SECRET_SUBTHREAD);
 
     if (canSeePrivacyTab) {
       tabs.push(
         <Tab
           name="Privacy"
           tabType="privacy"
           onClick={setCurrentTabType}
           selected={currentTabType === 'privacy'}
           key="privacy"
         />,
       );
     }
 
     const canDeleteThread = hasPermissionForTab(threadInfo, 'delete');
     if (canDeleteThread) {
       tabs.push(
         <Tab
           name="Delete"
           tabType="delete"
           onClick={setCurrentTabType}
           selected={currentTabType === 'delete'}
           key="delete"
         />,
       );
     }
 
     return (
       <Modal name="Thread settings" onClose={modalContext.popModal}>
         <ul className={css.tab_panel}>{tabs}</ul>
         <div className={css.modal_body}>
           <form method="POST">
             {mainContent}
             <div className={css.form_footer}>
               {buttons}
               <div className={css.modal_form_error}>{errorMessage}</div>
             </div>
           </form>
         </div>
       </Modal>
     );
   },
 );
 
 export default ConnectedThreadSettingsModal;