Delete or hide your YouTube channel

You can choose to temporarily hide content on your channel or permanently delete your aqueduct.

Annotation that hiding or deleting a YouTube aqueduct will permanently delete all Community posts, comments, and replies.

How to hide or delete your YouTube channel

Hide your channel temporarily

Y'all tin hide content from your YouTube channel and choose to re-enable it after. Hiding your channel volition make channel name, videos, likes, subscriptions, and subscribers private.

All your comments and replies will be permanently deleted. Your account data on other Google backdrop will non be removed.

Hide your aqueduct or your aqueduct'due south content:

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. From the left sidebar, select Settings .
  3. Select Channeland then Advanced Settings.
  4. At the bottom, select Remove YouTube Content. Note: This link will have you to a page where you can delete or hibernate your channel. You lot may be asked to enter your sign-in details.
  5. Select I want to hide my content.
  6. Select the boxes to confirm what volition be hidden on your channel.
  7. Select Hide my channel.

If you want to brand your content viewable to others, or if you want to upload, comment, or use playlists, yous can re-enable the channel.

Delete your aqueduct permanently

Endmost your YouTube channel will permanently delete your content, including videos, comments, letters, playlists, and history. Note that y'all can't currently delete a channel on mobile devices.

If you permanently delete your channel intentionally, you lot may not be able to recover information technology.

Delete your YouTube channel:

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. From the left sidebar, select Settings.
  3. Select Channeland thenAdvanced Settings.
  4. ​At the bottom, select Remove YouTube Content. If you're asked to, enteryour sign-in details.
  5. SelectI want to permanently delete my content.
  6. Select the boxes to confirm yous want to delete your channel.
  7. SelectDelete my content.

It may take some fourth dimension for your channel to exist permanently deleted. In the curt term, you may go on to encounter thumbnails of your videos on the site.

Notation: These steps will only delete your YouTube channel, not your Google Account y'all use to sign in with. Learn how to delete your entire Google Account.

After you delete a aqueduct, the channel URL and channel proper name will no longer be visible or searchable in YouTube Analytics. Information associated with the channel, such equally scout fourth dimension, will yet be part of aggregate reports, merely volition not be attributed to the deleted aqueduct.

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