If you'd like to delete a YouTube channel, stay tuned, watch this very short video and
I'll show you what to do.
Hi there, David Walsh here, from David WalshOnLine.com and in this, very short video I'll show you,
exactly how to delete a YouTube channel.
Now, I did record a video on the exact same topic just a few months ago and as soon as
it was uploaded, YouTube went and changed everything.
With Google+ taking over more and more of YouTube, things are changing around and things
are getting a slight more complicated than they were, before.
So, in this video I'm going to show you exactly what to do, once again, to delete your YouTube
channel.
So, let us head on over to a channel, now, and let's go and delete it.
Ok.
So, here I am in a channel and in order to delete my YouTube channel I actually have
to delete my whole Google+, because, now, YouTube is intertwined with Google+, we, now,
have to delete the whole thing in order to delete your YouTube channel.
You can't just delete your YouTube channel and then still have your Google+ account.
Now, I only have my one channel on this account and you can check that by going to your name
on the top and clicking on 'Switch Accounts'.
If you have only one in here, attached to this account, then you're fine.
If you have other channels under here, one, two, three, or four, whatever under there,
then you have other channels associated with that account and you can't delete your account
in that way.
You either have to go and remove these channels first or you have to delete them in order
to be able to delete this account.
Now if you're looking to keep your Google+ page account that you would have under here
and try to delete this, it won't work.
Now, you need to have a Google+ profile account in order to have your Google+ page account.
So, you still need to have this one here, with your name or a name on here, first name
- last name, in order for you to have this.
So, this video is going to cover how to delete this profile account, and profile account,
only.
There will be a separate video on how to delete your other accounts, here.
So, in order to delete this, you go to your top up, here, again, and you click on 'Settings',
here, under 'Google Accounts'.
So, click on 'Settings', then you scroll all the way to the bottom, where it says 'Disable
Google+'.
Then, you click on your 'Delete your entire Google+ profile', here.
You scroll to the bottom and then you click on the required 'I understand that deleting
this service will not be undone, and the data I delete can't be restored'.
So, all your videos, etc. are going to be removed, all your data everything that you
have on there, will be removed.
So, if you want to keep it in any way, shape or form, definitely don't delete it.
Or if you want to move it to a different channel definitely download your videos, if you don't
have the backup already.
So, when that's done, click on 'Remove Selected Services' and it will tell you 'You have successfully
deleted Google+ and associated social content'.
And then they'll ask you the reason why.
So, you can delete this account at any time, whether you've just created your account.
I only created this account five minutes ago.
So, you can delete it at any time when you want to.
Now, one thing that you will find is that your gmail account has not been deleted.
So, if you look up top,you'll see here, my Gmail account that I created has not been
deleted.
If we go in here... give them a reason... and something like that, click on 'Submit'.
It goes through and it asks you if you want to upgrade to Google+.
In other words, do you want to go back and reset your account.
You'll see that your email account is not deleted, so your emails are still available
on your Gmail account.
So, there you go.
That's how you delete a YouTube channel.
And as you can see there are few more steps than were there previously.
And hopefully, this time, things won't change quite as quickly on YouTube, so this video
will be relevant for a bit longer.
And when you go to delete your YouTube channel, make sure to download all your videos from
the channel that you want to keep.
Because as soon as you delete the channel, they're all gone; and YouTube won't be able
to get them back for you.
And as well, your YouTube channel name that you have, the URL that you have on your channel,
that will also be gone, as well, and you might not be able to get that back for quite some
time.
So, if you want to delete your channel, make sure that you either don't want the videos
that are on there and also, the channel name, because they won't be available once you do
it.
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How To Delete A YouTube Channel