How Do I Delete a Playlist From YouTube on My Computer?
Open the playlist’s settings to find the Delete playlist option. It’s how you remove the playlists you’ve created.
How Do I Delete a Playlist From YouTube in the App?
The YouTube app works much like the desktop website, but the menu options are in different places.
Can’t Delete a YouTube Playlist?
There’s a playlist-like collection called Watch later in every YouTube account that appears to be a playlist, but it’s built-in, so you can’t delete it. You can add videos to it, but you can’t delete the entire collection. If you want to remove watch later videos, the best thing you can do is to delete the videos you’ve already watched. Look for Remove watched videos from the menu in that playlist (step 3 above). On iOS or iPadOS, tap the trash can icon. Other playlists you might struggle to remove are ones that you’ve added to your library from another user. If Delete playlist is missing when you complete the above steps, select the playlist button on the left instead of the menu button at step 3.
Alternatives to Deleting a Playlist
Deleting a whole YouTube playlist is permanent. You can always rebuild it later, but you don’t want to make that mistake if you have a lot of videos saved. Here are two options to avoid immediately erasing all those videos:
Merge Playlists
If you’d rather all the playlist’s videos be in a different playlist, YouTube provides such an option. It’s called Add all to, and when you select it, all the videos from one playlist will be copied to a different playlist. For example, maybe you’ve been unwittingly editing two different playlists at various times because they have a similar name, but now you want to merge them. Everything from the first playlist will go into the second one, and then you can delete the first to avoid confusion in the future. Repeat steps 1-3 of the desktop directions above to merge playlists. In step 3, instead of removing the playlist, choose Add all to, and select where to copy the videos.
Remove Specific Videos Only
An alternative solution to slimming down your playlists is to remove individual videos out of them. There are a couple of ways to do this:
Repeat the first two steps above, and when you see the list of videos, use the three-dot menu next to the video to find the Remove from option.Visit the video’s regular streaming page, select Save, and remove the check from the box next to the playlist name. Or, from the app, tap-and-hold Save/Saved and remove the check. Android users have one more step: tap Done.
