This article explains how to delete your YouTube Channel if you no longer want or need to upload videos of your own or create playlists.

What to Know

  • Log in to your YouTube account and select your profile icon > Settings > Advanced Settings > Delete Account. Re-enter your login info.Select I want to permanently delete my content. Confirm your choice, then select Delete My Content.Without a channel, you can still subscribe to channels, comment on videos, add videos to your Watch Later section, and more.

Access Your YouTube Settings

Navigate to YouTube.com in a web or mobile browser and sign in to your account. Although you can delete your YouTube account and all of its data from the official YouTube mobile app, you can only delete channels from the web.

Select your user account icon in the top right corner of the screen and then select Settings from the drop-down menu.

If you have multiple YouTube channels on the same account, make sure you’re accessing the settings for the right one. To switch to a different channel, click Switch account from the drop-down menu, select the channel you want, and then repeat the above instructions to access its settings. 

Access Your Advanced Settings

On the next page, select the Advanced settings option in the vertical menu on the left. You’ll be taken to a new page with all of your channel settings.

Delete Your Channel

Look for the Delete channel link at the bottom of the Advanced settings page and select it. Your Google account, Google products (such as Gmail, Drive, etc.) and other existing channels associated with it won’t be affected.

You’ll be asked to sign into your Google account again for verification.

Confirm That You Want to Delete Your Channel

 On the following page, you’ll be given two options:

  • I want to hide my contentI want to permanently delete my content

You can choose to simply hide all of your channel content like videos and playlists, however, your channel page, name, art and icon, likes, and subscriptions will remain unhidden. If you’d prefer to go with this option, select I want to hide my content, check the boxes to confirm you understand, and then select the blue Hide My Content button.

If you’re ready to go ahead and delete your entire channel and all of its data, then select I want to permanently delete my content. check the boxes to confirm you understand and then select the blue Delete My Content button. 

You can now return to YouTube.com, sign into your account using your Google account details and confirm that your channel is gone by selecting your account user icon in the top right corner followed by clicking Switch account. If you have multiple channels, the other channels should appear there while the one that you deleted should be gone.

You’ll be asked one last time to confirm the deletion by typing your channel name into the given field before clicking Delete My Content. Remember that once you’ve clicked this, it cannot be undone.

You can see a list of your channels associated with your Google account and Brand accounts by navigating to your​ Settings and selecting See all my channels or create a new channel. Accounts of channels that you deleted will still appear here unless you choose to delete those accounts as well.

Without a channel, you can still subscribe to other channels, leave comments on other videos, add videos to your Watch Later section, and all the other things associated with using YouTube. This is because your YouTube account is associated with your Google account, so as long as you keep using YouTube through your Google account, it doesn’t matter whether you have a channel or not.

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