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Deleting a YouTube account can be tricky, and if you aren't careful, you may end up deleting your entire Google account. This wikiHow will teach you how to delete just your YouTube account.

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Visit the Google Account Management page. Visit google.com/account in a browser. Google has linked every YouTube account with a Google+ account. The only way to delete your YouTube account is to delete the Google+ profile associated with it.
- Deleting your Google+ account will not affect other Google products such as Gmail or Drive. Your emails and stored files will not be deleted. All photos uploaded to Google+ will still be accessible via Picasa.
- You will not lose your contacts, though they will no longer be organized by Circles.
- You will not lose any Google+ pages you own or manage.
- You will lose access to your Google+ profile and all of your +1s.
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Click the "Data tools" tab.
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Click the "Delete Google+ profile and features" link.
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Confirm that you want to delete everything described by checking the "Required" box at the bottom of the page.
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Click "Remove selected services". Your Google+ profile will be deleted, which means your YouTube channel will be deleted as well.
- Your comments and messages will be permanently deleted.

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Log into YouTube with the channel you want to delete. Each channel you create will have an individual account on YouTube and Google+.
- This is only available if you have multiple channels.
- To switch accounts, click the image next to your name in the upper-right corner of the YouTube page. Select the channel you want to remove.
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Click your profile image in the upper-right corner of the YouTube page. Click the Gear icon beneath your channel's name.
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Click the "Advanced" link. This is located underneath your channel's name in the Overview section of the Settings page.
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Click the "Delete channel" button. You will need to sign in again with your base Google account, and then the "Delete channel" page will open. You will be shown how many videos and playlists will be deleted, and how many subscribers and comments will be lost.
- Click the "Delete channel" button again to delete the channel.
- Your Google account will not be deleted.
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Visit the Google+ site. Even though the channel has been deleted, you can still log in to YouTube with your associated Google+ page, which has the same name. To completely erase it, you'll need to open the Google+ site.
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Sign in with the Google+ page you want to delete. You cannot delete your Google account's base Google+ profile.
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Hover over the Home menu and select Settings.
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Scroll to the bottom and click the "Delete page" link.
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Confirm that you want to delete it and click the "Delete page" button.
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Check the box for each service you will lose access to and then check the boxes to confirm that you want to delete the Google+ page.

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What are the dangers of deleting a YouTube account?

Deleting your YouTube account means you will lose your channel, and your videos and comments will be deleted forever.
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What if I have a brand account? Will that be deleted as well?

You cannot fully delete a brand account, you can only hide it.
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If I delete my YouTube channel, will my videos be deleted as well?

Yes, your videos will also be deleted from YouTube, because they are linked to your YouTube channel.
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How can I delete my old YouTube accounts when I don't remember my username or password?

If you remember the email associated with those accounts, then type in that email, then click "I forgot my password". From there, go to your email, change the password, login, and then delete the account.
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How can I delete a YouTube account now that Google+ is gone?

Go to google.com, click your icon on the top corner(log in of there's no icon), click the blue square "Google Account". Then, click a blue text that says "Manage your data and personalization", scroll down until you reach the "Download, delete, or make a plan for your data" tab, the third option should be "Delete a service or your account" click it. After that, select "Delete a service". Finally, There most likely will be three icons, one for Youtbe, one for Gmail, and one for Google Plays if you play games on android, click the trash can icon located at the right of the service you want to delete, follow the instructions on screen.
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If I have multiple channels on YouTube with the same email account, will deleting one channel cause all the other channels to be deleted as well?

If you delete the channel, the others won't disappear. If you delete your account, then you will be removing all of your channels.
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How long does it take for a YouTube channel to be deleted?

It depends. For reference, mine took about 15 minutes to delete and had like 600 subscriptions, 10 thousand likes, no videos (this definitely makes a lot of difference), and a dozen videos saved for later. The warning says that it may take a few days to complete if there's a lot of stuff. Keep in mind that until your account has been fully deleted, you can not sign in into YouTube with your email. Once the process is done, you are given a brand new YouTube account.

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1. Visit myaccount.google.com and login with your Google account.
2. Click the "Delete your account or services" link.
3. Select "Delete products" and enter your Google password.
4. Click the trashcan icon next to "YouTube".
5. Confirm that you want to delete it. Be careful that you don't your whole account.

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