Delete Your One-Time Pre-Google+ Youtube Comments

Have you lot e'er posted a YouTube comment that you lot at nowadays regret? One you lot desire - or demand - to delete? As long every bit you lot tin flame sign into the YouTube channel that posted the comment, you lot tin flame delete it.

On Nov 6, 2013, YouTube switched to the electrical flow Google+-based comment system. That way that if you lot convey been active on YouTube for to a greater extent than than a year, you lot in all probability posted comments using the erstwhile legacy comment system. Pre-Google+ comments cannot endure edited, or directly replied to, simply they tin flame endure deleted.

How to delete your pre-Google+ Legacy YouTube comments

You tin flame delete erstwhile YouTube comments from a video's "ALL COMMENTS" page, every bit long every bit you lot are signed inwards every bit the channel that posted the comment.

Just follow the step-by-step directions below on your desktop computer.

1. Sign into the YouTube channel that posted the comment

To delete a comment, you lot must endure signed inwards every bit the channel that posted it on a desktop computer. There is currently no way to delete a legacy comment on mobile devices.

If you lot convey to a greater extent than than i YouTube channel connected to your YouTube account, or your YouTube channel is connected to a Google+ Page, you lot may demand to switch to the right YouTube channel identity after signing in.

You tin flame switch channel identities past times clicking your channel icon inwards the upper right corner, or past times going to www.youtube.com/channel_switcher and selecting your channel.

2. Open the video lookout adult man page where you lot originally posted the comment

To delete your comment, you lot start demand to open the video lookout adult man page you lot posted the comment on on your desktop computer. There is no way to run into a listing of all the comments you lot convey posted, hence that way you lot may demand to purpose Google search or approximately other search engine to notice your erstwhile comments.

Open the video lookout adult man page for the video you lot commented on, as well as allow the comments to load.

You volition notice that if you lot click the downward arrow to the right of your erstwhile comment on the video lookout adult man page the solely pick is to "Report spam or abuse"  - don't study your ain comment every bit spam!

Above the electrical flow comments for the video it volition nation ALL COMMENTS . Click ALL COMMENTS to opened upwardly the "All comments" page (obvious, right?).

You tin flame also opened upwardly the the "All Comments" page straight if you lot know the video ID.
Replace the highlighted component subdivision of this link alongside the right video ID to larn to the comments page:
    https://www.youtube.com/all_comments?v=3yNSF7ljOoU

3. On the "All Comments" page notice your comment as well as delete it

Once you lot convey opened the "All comments" page for the video, scroll downward until you lot notice your erstwhile comment.

Hover your cursor over the comment hence that a downward arrow appears on the right border of the comment page. Note that if your browser window is likewise small, you lot may non run into it - brand certain the right border of the comment page is visible.

Click the downward arrow to the right of your comment to run into the pick to "Remove" the comment.

Select "Remove" to permanently delete your comment.

If you lot create non run into the pick to take away your comment on the All Comments page, you lot are in all probability non signed inwards alongside the right YouTube channel.

What are your options if you lot can't sign inwards to your erstwhile channel?

If you lot tin flame no longer recall how to sign inwards to the YouTube trouble organisation human relationship that posted the comment, you lot tin flame endeavour to find access using the Google trouble organisation human relationship recovery process, starting hither :

www.google.com/accounts/recovery

Note that it is no longer possible to sign inwards to YouTube alongside your channel username instead of your electronic mail username. It is non necessarily a Gmail electronic mail - it could endure a Hotmail, Yahoo email, or other type of electronic mail address.

Legacy YouTube channels - channels created before May 2009 that have non been accessed since earlier 2011 - demand to be connected to a Google account.

If you lot ultimately cannot sign inwards or take away your erstwhile comment, you tin flame endeavour bespeak the channel possessor to take away your comment. The channel possessor should endure able to take away whatever comments - erstwhile or novel - from their videos or channel discussion.

What most Google+ YouTube comments?

You convey to a greater extent than options for deleting Google+ YouTube comments: you lot tin flame delete hence from the video lookout adult man page, from you lot Google+ Profile or Page, or using the YouTube or Google+ app on your yell upwardly or tablet.
Learn how to delete Google+ YouTube comments.
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