Mass Delete YouTube Videos You've Uploaded
Old uploads are the part of a channel that ages worst. The audio is rough, the edit is dated, and the person in them stopped being you several years ago, but they stay at the bottom of your channel where anyone can scroll to them. Redact clears them in bulk. You pick the videos from your own upload list, check the batch, and they go. This one is permanent, so the preview isn't a formality.
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Uploaded Videos Premium
Pick the videos to include in this deletion run
Why clear old uploads?
Your channel is judged by its worst video, not its best
Anyone who lands on your channel can scroll to the beginning. Whatever's down there is doing as much talking as the videos you're proud of, and it never stops.
Your face and voice are in all of it
A video carries far more than text ever could. Old uploads hold your face, your voice, your room, and the people who wandered through it, on a public page.
Early videos date fast
The trends, the editing style and the way everyone talked in 2015 all read as a period piece now. What was completely normal then reads as a costume today.
Detail leaks in the background
Street signs through a window, a parcel on the table, a school uniform. Things nobody even noticed while filming are all searchable once the video is up.
The archive drags the channel down
A wall of low-view uploads sits between a new visitor and the work you'd want them to find. Clearing them changes what the channel looks like on arrival.
What this feature does
You pick the videos, not a checkbox
Uploads work differently from every other YouTube category in Redact, and it's a deliberate safeguard.
There's no Uploads tile among the content types. Instead Redact fetches your channel's own list of videos and shows it to you, and the run is built from the ones you tick. Choosing at least one is what adds uploads to the job at all, so this can't be switched on by accident while you're clearing something else.
On top of the selection, the usual filters apply. Uploads carry a real publish date, so a date range brackets by when you actually posted, and video title contains matches the words in your own titles. Both narrow the batch you picked rather than replacing it.
The important part is what happens at the end. A deleted upload is gone from YouTube, along with its views, its comments, and any link anyone ever shared to it. There's no bin to recover it from. Download anything you want to keep before you run this, and use the preview.
- Pick from your channel
- Date range
- Title keywords
- Preview first
- Permanent
Uploaded Videos Premium
Pick the videos to include in this deletion run
Narrow the batch
Three things decide what goes
The selection comes first and the filters trim it. Nothing outside what you ticked can be caught by a filter, which is the safeguard that makes this category workable at all.
Your selection
Redact loads the videos on your channel and you tick the ones in scope. An empty selection means uploads aren't part of the run at all.
Date range
Brackets by the day you published. Unlike Watch Later or likes, this is genuinely your own date, so a window like everything before 2019 does what it sounds like.
Video title contains
Whole words matched against your own video titles, so a naming convention you used for a series clears that series and nothing else.
Before anything is permanent
Preview it, then preview it again
Preview Mode
The exact list of uploads the run would delete, with nothing touched. On a permanent action this is the step that matters most, so read the whole list.
Select and Delete
Confirm each video individually as Redact works through the batch. Slower, and the safer choice when the titles look alike.
Deletion Mode
Run the batch you approved. Redact deletes each video from your own machine and reports as it goes, and none of it can be undone.
Step-by-step guide
How to bulk delete your YouTube uploads with Redact
Take the extra minute on the preview. Deleting an upload is final, and this is the one YouTube run with no way back.
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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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Download anything you want to keep
Before you start, pull down copies of the videos that matter to you. YouTube Studio lets you download your own uploads, and Google Takeout will export the channel in bulk. Once Redact removes a video there's nothing left to recover it from.
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Pick the uploads and set your filters
Open the uploaded videos selector and tick the videos in scope, then narrow the batch if you want to.
- Date range: taken from the day you published each video.
- Video title contains: matches whole words in your own titles.
- Nothing ticked: uploads stay out of the run entirely.
Good to know: choosing uploads needs Premium however recently you posted them, because hand-picking which of your videos to destroy is the paid capability here rather than the date filtering.
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Preview, read it properly, then run it
Preview it and read every line. Only when the list holds precisely what you meant should you set it going, and then each video comes off your channel in turn.
Your videos go straight from you to YouTube
Redact deletes each upload from your own computer, talking to YouTube with the account you connected. Your videos are never uploaded, copied or read by Redact, and no list of what you removed leaves your machine. The account link is yours to break whenever you want. Redact is not owned by, or connected to, YouTube or Google.
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Frequently asked questions
No. A video deleted from YouTube is gone, along with its views, comments and any link people shared to it, and there's no bin to restore it from. Download the ones you care about through YouTube Studio or Google Takeout before you run this.
Because it's permanent and the others mostly aren't. Instead of a tile you can tick by accident, Redact shows you your channel's own list of videos and builds the run from the ones you pick. Leave the selection empty and uploads aren't part of the run at all.
Yes. Select every video in the list and Redact works through them in one run. Take the preview seriously on a batch that size, because it's the last point where any of it can be called off.
Yes. Uploads carry the real date you published them, so a date range ending at the start of a year queues everything before it and leaves your recent work alone. Combine it with a title keyword if an old series had its own naming.
No. It needs a premium plan at any age. The gate is on picking which of your videos to destroy rather than on how old they are, so even a video you posted this morning falls under it.
The comments on a deleted video go with the video, since the page they lived on no longer exists. Comments you left on other people's videos are separate and are cleared through the comments run.
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