How Do You Delete a YouTube Channel

Ed August

@ed_august · 22 Jul 2022

How Do You Delete a YouTube Channel

YouTube is one of the best video streaming platforms with many users worldwide. Many content creators use this YouTube to reach out to their audience through YouTube channels.

Have you reached a point where you feel you want to take a break from YouTube? Do you feel that you no longer want to share content on this platform and want to delete your YouTube channel? Maybe you haven’t achieved enough subscribers and views, and you want to quit. If this is you, this guide is for you.

Deleting a YouTube channel is not complicated. This is a task you can complete in less than 10 minutes. I will take you through a step-by-step guide on how to delete your YouTube channel.

How to Delete a YouTube Channel

YouTube provides a simple process on how to delete your channel. However, you need a computer to do that because they don’t allow users to delete a channel on a mobile device. YouTube also gives you the option of deleting or hiding your channel. Follow these steps to delete your YouTube channel.

•    Step 1: Log into the YouTube you would like to delete.
•    Step 2: click YouTube settings on the top right.
•    Step 3: In the Account Settings, choose Overview.
•    Step 4: On the Channel’s name, choose Advanced.
•    Step 5: Below you will see Delete Channel.
•    Step 6: Choose if you want to delete the content permanently.
•    Step 7: Select the boxes and confirm that you want to delete the channel.
•    Step 8: Choose Delete Channel.

After deleting your YouTube channel, all information associated with the channel is not attributed to the channel.  Your channel URL will also not be seen in YouTube Analytics.

How to Hide Your YouTube Channel

You can also hide your content from your YouTube channel and reactivate it later. If you hide your channel, your channel name, subscribers, subscriptions, likes, and videos become private. Hiding your channel is a less permanent solution because you can make your channel private again. However, some replies and comments will be deleted permanently.  Follow these steps to hide your channel.

•    Step 1: Launch YouTube Studio and sign in.
•    Step 2: Click the setting button on the left sidebar.
•    Step 3: Click Advanced Settings under the channel section.
•    Step 4: At the bottom, click Remove YouTube content.
•    Step 5: Choose if you want to hide your content.
•    Step 6: Check the boxes and choose the content you want to hide on your channel.

Verdict

There are many reasons why you would choose to delete or hide your YouTube channel. Regardless of your reasons, it is easy to do that. Remember you need to use a computer to delete your channel because YouTube doesn’t allow deleting a channel on a smartphone. I hope the above steps will help you delete or hide your channel without any problems. Once you have deleted your channel, all the data is gone and you cannot recover it.

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