Step-by-step instructions for deleting videos on a Youtube channel

It is advisable to remove unsuccessful or low-quality videos from your channel. They only get bad ratings and scare away new audiences. Today we will look at how to delete a video from YouTube on your own as well as someone else’s channel, and answer a number of additional questions.

Deleting several videos

Not everyone knows how to delete several videos from a Youtube channel at once; let’s look at the brief instructions.

PC

1. Go to the video hosting site.
2. Click on the thumbnail in the upper right corner and select "Creative Studio"
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3. Click on the item "Video"
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4. Unfortunately, YouTube does not have a function for deleting several videos at once, so this is done manually. Click on the three dots next to the desired video and select "Delete"
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5. Do this for each video that you want to remove from the channel.

Smartphone

1. Launch the YouTube application on your device.
2. From the menu below, select "Library"
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3. Tap on an item "My videos"
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4. The application does not have functionality for deleting several videos at once, so tap on the three dots next to the ones you need and select "Delete"
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On the phone

How to delete a video on your phone?

The platform (operating system) is not important here, since the instructions are identical. Suitable for both Android and iOS.

1. We launch the YouTube application (of course, you must be authorized there! If not, then log in and continue to follow the guide).
2. Go to the “Library” tab.
3. In the list we find the corresponding item - “Your videos”, and then click on it.
4. Among the “videos” we find the one we need (if anything, then at the top of the list, there are the newest videos), and then click on the three vertical dots.

   

5. We are deleting content!

On a tablet

How to delete a video in the web version of video hosting (on a computer)?

Everything is also easy here!

1. As usual, open youtube.com.
2. Then in the upper right corner, we find the usual blog image. Of course, click on the picture...
3. Then - “Creative Studio”.
4. We wait for the page to load, and then click on “Video” (on the left side of the display).
5. We find a low-quality video and simply hover the mouse cursor over it.
6. A fragment of the description is replaced by a number of functions. Click on the three dots.
7. In the context menu, we select the “Delete” button and confirm the action!

That's all! By the way…

Erase several at once

Tip: if you need to delete several videos at once, then:

1. A little to the left of the column with the roller, there are squares. We click on them and thereby mark them.
2. At the top we find the item “Other actions”.
3. We delete the videos.

Announcing a Break ↓

Temporarily Hide

How to hide a video (not delete it, but the video cannot be found on YouTube)?

If you don’t need to delete the video, but just hide it, then:

1. We are opening a “Creative Studio”.
2. Let's go to the video manager.
3. Click on the video you want to hide.
4. Then find the item “Access Settings” and select “Limited Access”.

Ready!

Ways to restore

So I managed to delete the downloaded videos... What if we need to restore it? And how to do this?

How can I restore the video on my channel again?

In fact, there are only 2 ways here!

1) Write to support.

Suitable if the video was recently deleted and it is still stored on the video hosting servers. You need to provide information about the channel name, video, approximate date of upload and deletion.

2) Use third-party services.

Using some of their own secret algorithms, these applications (sites) allow you to recover deleted content from YouTube. However, the services are considered hacker, so they are quickly removed from the Internet.

Yes, it’s easy to delete your video! But to delete someone else’s...

Attention!

Don't try to delete someone else's uploaded video without a good reason! Otherwise, your account may be banned!

So, let's begin: ↓

How to delete someone else's content on YouTube?

There are quite a lot of options, let’s look at each of them in more detail...

Option 1 - Complaint about the video

Informers...

This is the simplest and most effective way. In YouTube slang, this is called a strike.

Strike is a formidable weapon that should be feared. Its essence is that an ordinary user can find a violation in a video. And as you probably know, one violation = video ban and disabling monetization from the video. And if a blogger catches 3 strikes, this will lead to a complete blocking of the channel(!)

How to throw a strike?

1. Open the desired video.
2. We find three vertical dots (on a PC below the video, on a smartphone above).
3. Select the “Complain” option.
4. Next we follow the instructions.

As we have already said, a complaint is a very serious statement, so this method should be used for serious violations.

Option 2 - Using specialized agencies

In fact, these services also throw a strike on video. Employees of such organizations know the rules of video hosting practically by heart, and will find any clue, even the smallest one.

This method is not suitable for blocking small accounts, since the price for such “entrepreneurs” starts from 15,000 rubles and ends at 100,000 rubles (sometimes even more). In addition, there are a lot of scammers in this area who disappear after transferring funds.

You need to look only for proven services. An example is: reputationexpert.ru. (not advertising!)

Option 3 - Write in the comments to the video or the author in l/s

You can ask the blogger himself to remove the video. You can do this either in the comments (it’s clear how...) or by writing to him personally:

1. Opening a blogger channel.
2. Go to the “About Channel” tab.
3. We choose a convenient messenger or social network and write to the blogger.

Option 4 - Inflating statistics

No matter how strange it may sound, but yes, we need to get likes and subscriptions for the blogger. You just need to do this as quickly as possible. For example, use several services at once.

The fact is that YouTube is fighting for pure statistics. Therefore, a sharp increase in the number of likes will most likely attract the attention of the site administration. By the way, you can get not only likes, but also dislikes.

Option 5— Appeal to court

This is the most radical way. If none of the above options helped, then you need to go to special institutions and submit applications.

Of course, you shouldn't sue over trivial matters, but if your blog is losing huge amounts of money due to copyright infringement, the claim will most likely be accepted.

How to find out the author of a deleted video on YouTube

If the video has been deleted, but the link to it remains, you can still try to find out its name and even view it.

Important! The video must have been recently deleted and have views. However, it is not guaranteed that you will be able to find out its name.

Paste the link to the deleted video into the address bar of your browser, before “youtube.com m” you need to insert “ss”

and press
Enter
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If everything works out, the video will open, you will be able to watch it and even recognize the author.

Ways to delete your video from YouTube

First, let's talk about how to delete a video from your YouTube channel. If you have access to your profile, everything is simple - we work through the creative studio. The instructions will be below. If you lose access to your profile, do not worry, the problem can also be solved. We'll also talk about this a little below. I will never tire of repeating that between deleting and hiding content, you should always choose the latter. If you don't like the video, just hide it until better times. Perhaps you will like him again later. Otherwise, the publication will be lost forever. And this is always not good. Still, in this case, you will lose likes, comments, views under this publication.

Video instruction

The video below contains an intuitive and simple algorithm for erasing unwanted materials. To remove content as directed by the video's author, do the following:

• go to the official website Youtube.com;
• log in;
• click on the avatar icon in the upper right;
• in the window that appears, select “Creative Studio”;
• on the left side of the studio, click on the phrase “Video Manager”;
• tick the required content;
• click on the “Actions” button above the list of videos;
• click on the “Delete” line.

Getting rid of records using Android devices

If you have forgotten your account, password or username, but downloaded videos via a mobile device, you can try to delete the recording from your phone. Let's go to the application.

Click on this button with a man.

Then go to “my videos”.

Click on three parallel dots next to the desired video. An additional menu appears, in which you will find the treasured “Delete” button.

Of course, if you have forgotten your passwords or login, it will be very difficult to work with the channel. Operating through a mobile device will be extremely inconvenient. The data needs to be restored. Chat with technical support, and here is a link that will help - support.google.com/youtube .

Method No. 2 Write complaints

On the same page “About the channel” you can find a checkbox, after clicking on which a context menu is shown, where there is an item “Report the user” and even “Block the user”.

Let's try to complain.

As you can see, in this case we turn directly to YouTube support, where we can immediately indicate the reasons for our dissatisfaction.

If the reasons for the complaint seem sufficiently compelling to YouTube employees, the video will be deleted and the problem will be resolved.

Removing an album from a video

Knowing how to delete VKontakte videos from your video recordings, it’s easy to figure out how to get rid of a previously created album. In this case, all the videos in it will be deleted at once. To do this you will need to perform a few simple steps:

1. Log in and go to the “my videos” section.
2. Switch to the tab with the list of created albums.
3. Select an unnecessary collection from the list provided.
4. Hover your cursor over it and find the desired function in the menu that opens.
5. Click the inscription that allows you to get rid of the annoying video clip and confirm your decision in the warning window that opens.

At this point, the process is completely completed, and the page owner can check the result. It will definitely turn out to be positive, and the goal will be achieved.

Deleting videos in messages

When a person wants to get rid of a video sent by one of his interlocutors, he should use the usual method of deleting messages and dialogues. Nothing new has been invented in 2021:

1. First of all, you need to log into your account and go to the correspondence section.
2. Here you need to open the appropriate dialogue.
3. In the dialogue, you should find a message with a video clip.
4. Click on the cross above the appropriate message.

It is important to emphasize that before closing or updating the page, users are able to cancel the action taken and return the deleted part of the correspondence. Immediately after the update, this opportunity disappears forever.

Additionally, you need to clarify that you cannot destroy the video through the list of attachments. Currently, the administration and developers of the social network do not provide such a function.

From the draft

You can also clear the drafts folder on your page. To do this we do the following:

1. In your personal profile, open the folder “Drafts" It is located along with other downloaded videos.

   

2. Next, in the upper right corner, click on the button “Choose».

   

3. We tick the video clips that need to be erased and click on the button at the bottom.Delete».

   

This way, the selected videos will disappear from your account forever. Read about how you can restore them in the next section.

How to delete all photos on VK at once

Unfortunately, it is impossible to clear video recordings on VK in one fell swoop without clicking on each video in turn. A list with several hundred items will take a long time to edit. But there is a way out - you will have to install a third-party application, for example, VKBot.

• The program can be downloaded for free on the Internet.
• Install it on your computer, log in using your VKontakte username and password.
• Find the section “Profile”—“Cleaning”—“Delete videos.”
• If you are sure, confirm the action.

Another way is to install the VKopt browser extension. Now on the page with video files, next to the overview of comments, a thick check mark will appear - “Delete all”.

However, keep in mind that this method of installing unofficial programs or extensions for VK is quite risky, so be careful when using it and be prepared for unexpected consequences in the form of page hacking or data theft.

How to replace or change an already downloaded video

We figured out how to delete your video clips from YouTube. But I wonder if there are better ways, for example, replacing the roller?

An existing video cannot be replaced because it received a unique URL on YouTube services. The uploaded and published clip can only be edited, for example

• Trim or cut out any part.
• Add tips, polls, etc.
• Change the name, category, description and access parameters.

Changes to entries are available on your computer and phone. Edit buttons are usually labeled “Edit” and are located next to the delete buttons (Fig. 3, Fig. 9).