Mass Delete Your Liked Videos on YouTube
Liking a video takes no thought or effort, which is exactly why the list gets so big so fast. It's a decade of small yes votes in one place, and on plenty of accounts it's public without the owner even realizing it. YouTube gives you no way to delete your liked videos in an efficient manner. Redact undo's years of your likes quickly. Delete all of your liked videos at once or take advantage of Redact's built-in filtering tools and remove only some likes on specific videos.
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Liked Videos
Un-like videos in bulk
The newest month is on us
Likes on anything posted in the past thirty days come off for free. Older ones want Premium.
Why clear your likes?
Your like list is the most honest thing on your account, what's it say?
Comments are performances and subscriptions are aspirational. Likes are what you actually watched and enjoyed, logged automatically, which makes the list far more revealing than anything you deliberately posted. Further, your liked videos influence what YouTube's algorithm shows you next. An outdated likes list could be tainting your recommended channels and videos feed.
It may well be public
Whether your liked videos are visible depends on a privacy setting most people have never opened. If it is switched on, the whole list is there for any visitor to your channel to read, top to bottom.
It's a profile nobody meant to write
Ten years of likes maps your politics, your health and your hobbies in order, with a date sitting on every one of them. Nobody would ever compile that document on purpose, and reading it back is unnerving.
It steers your recommendations hard
Likes are one of the strongest signals YouTube has to work with. A list still weighed down by a phase you grew out of years ago quietly keeps that same phase alive in everything you get offered next.
There's no clear-all button
YouTube lets you un-like one video at a time from the list, and the page reloads underneath you every time you do. Thousands of likes is simply not something anybody has ever finished doing by hand.
What this feature does
Delete the likes in one easy run
Redact reads your liked videos list and removes the like from each one. Leave every filter empty and it works through the whole thing until the list is bare.
Video title contains narrows it to likes on videos whose titles carry the words you give, so a single run can pull one subject out of a very long list. That's usually the useful shape, because it's rarely the whole list that bothers you.
One quirk carries over from the queue, for the same underlying reason. YouTube never says when you pressed like, only when the clip was posted, so anything you filter or pay for is judged on the clip's age. Like something from 2014 this afternoon and it is treated as a 2014 item.
- Whole list
- Title keywords
- Date range
- Dates the video
- Runs locally
Liked Videos
Un-like videos in bulk
Aim the run
Take all of it, or one subject at a time
Both controls trim the same list, so you can use one, both, or neither, and the preview will show you what came back before any like is removed.
Video title contains
Match whole words in the video's title and only those likes are queued. The practical way to clear out a phase without losing the rest of the list.
Date range
Scoped by when the clip went up, never by when you tapped like. An old video liked this week counts as old.
No filter at all
Leave them empty and every like on your account is queued, which is the run most people are here for.
How to run it
Try it, trim it, then take the likes back
Preview Mode
Redact lists the likes your filters caught and stops there. A good way to see how big the list actually is before you commit to anything.
Select and Delete
Pick over the results and leave your approval on anything that has aged well, taking it back off the rest.
Scheduled cleanups
Put it on a timer and likes fall off the list as they age, instead of quietly stacking up again. Repeating runs sit on a paid plan.
Step-by-step guide
How to un-like all your YouTube videos with Redact
Setup is a couple of minutes. How long the run takes depends entirely on how many likes are in there.
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Download Redact for free
Download for your device →Install Redact on your computer and create a free account. YouTube cleanups run in the desktop app on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
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Connect your Google account
Open Redact, choose YouTube, and sign in. The login goes straight to Google in a browser window Redact opens for you, and your password never touches a Redact server.
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Tick Liked Videos and set the scope
Tick Liked Videos under Content Types. What you do next depends on how much of it you want gone.
- Nothing set: every like on the account is queued.
- Video title contains: only likes on videos whose titles match your words.
- Date range: read off the clip's posting date, not the day you liked it.
Good to know: a like on something posted this past month comes off for nothing. Older ones want Premium, and on a list built over years that is most of them.
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Preview before you commit
Preview it first and read the result. A word like live or 2020 catches far more than you would expect, and this is the step that saves you from a run you never meant.
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Un-like the batch
Set it going. Each like comes off in turn and the list shrinks in front of you, so there is nothing to sit and watch. Leave it running and check back later.
Your likes are read on your machine, not ours
Everything happens inside the copy of Redact sitting on your own hard drive, which calls YouTube itself. The videos you had approved of, the size of the list, and which ones you reversed all stay on that machine and nowhere else. Unhook the account whenever you want. Redact is built independently and is not a Google product.
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Frequently asked questions
No. There's no notification for a like being removed. The video's like count drops by one and nothing else happens, which on any video with a real audience is invisible.
Yes. Pick Liked Videos, leave every filter blank, and the entire list goes into the queue. Expect it to take a while on a big account, since each like is undone as a separate action.
Because YouTube only exposes when the clip was posted, never when you tapped like. Like a 2014 upload this afternoon and it is filed under 2014, so a recent date range skips it and the free month does not cover it either.
That depends on a privacy setting on your Google account, and plenty of people have never opened it. Clearing the list is the reliable fix either way, because it stops the question mattering.
No. Liked Videos is its own content type and a run scoped to it only removes likes. Watch Later and playlists are separate selections you'd have to tick yourself.
More YouTube features
Delete Your YouTube Playlists
Tick the playlists you're done with and Redact deletes the ones you made and unsaves the ones you'd only added to your library.
Clear Out Your Watch Later Queue
Empty a queue that's hundreds deep in one run, or clear only part of it by matching words in the video titles.
Delete All Your YouTube Comments
Clear your whole comment history, or aim at it with a date range, the words in the comment, or the video it sits under.
Delete Your YouTube Watch History
Clear the record of everything you've played, all of it, a date window, or every video whose title matches a word.
Delete Your YouTube Search History
Wipe every phrase you've typed into the YouTube search box, or just the ones from a period you name.
Mass Unsubscribe From Channels
Reset a subscription list built over years in one run, instead of unsubscribing channel by channel.
Delete Your Uploaded Videos
Pick old uploads out of your channel's own list and delete them in bulk. Permanent, so preview it first.