Delete or hibernate your YouTube channel

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

Note that hiding or deleting a YouTube channel will permanently delete all Customs posts, comments, and replies.

How to hide or delete your YouTube channel

Hide your channel temporarily

You can hide content from your YouTube channel and choose to re-enable information technology subsequently. Hiding your channel will brand channel name, videos, likes, subscriptions, and subscribers individual.

All your comments and replies volition be permanently deleted. Your account data on other Google properties will not be removed.

Hide your channel or your aqueduct's content:

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

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

Delete your aqueduct permanently

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

If you permanently delete your aqueduct intentionally, you may non exist able to recover it.

Delete your YouTube channel:

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. From the left sidebar, select Settings.
  3. Select Aqueductand 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 y'all desire to delete your aqueduct.
  7. SelectDelete my content.

It may take some time for your channel to exist permanently deleted. In the short term, you may keep to run into thumbnails of your videos on the site.

Note: These steps will only delete your YouTube aqueduct, not your Google Account yous utilize to sign in with. Learn how to delete your entire Google Account.

After you delete a channel, the channel URL and channel name will no longer be visible or searchable in YouTube Analytics. Data associated with the aqueduct, such as lookout man time, will withal be part of aggregate reports, but volition not be attributed to the deleted aqueduct.

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