How to Delete All Messages in Discord

Dec. 2, 2021

With Discord moving away from its gamer-centric approach and placing itself as a service for everyone, the platform has grown at an incredible pace. Whether it is forhosting Spotify listening parties,streaming Netflix on Discord, or anything else, Discord has something for everyone. However, one sad fact aboutDiscord is that it doesn’t delete your messages even if you decide topermanently delete your Discord account. If you’d like to remove your messages, follow the steps below to delete all messages in Discord.

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Note:The steps shown below are for deleting Discord messages in DM. However, you can follow the same steps for removing messages in bulk from channels too.

2.Click on the ‘get’ buttonsnext to Authorization, Author, Guild/Channel to generate these fields. The authorization token generated here will give complete access to your account, so make sure you don’t share it with anyone.

3. If you prefer deleting messages from a specific period, you can do that too. Click on Range and set the start and end dates.

4.Click on the green ‘Start’ buttonto start bulk-deleting messages on Discord.

5. You’ll now get an in-browser prompt to confirm deleting messages. Click on ‘OK’ to confirm.

And that’s it, you’ve successfully deleted Discord messages in bulk. If you have a lot of Discord message history, do not delete all of them at once. Instead, use the range tool to delete messages by month and do it in different intervals so that it doesn’t trigger Discord’s anti-spam mechanism. If you’re going to delete the account anyway, you’ve got nothing to lose and can purge all your previous Discord messages.

1. If you’re new to Discord and wondering how to delete a message, here’s how you do it. Hover over a message andclick on the horizontal three dots ‘More’button.

2. From the list of options,choose ‘Delete Message’.

3. When the confirmation pop-up appears,click on ‘Delete’again to remove a message in DM or channel.

If you’re a server administrator, you can use bots to delete messages. While there are dedicated bots likeCommandCleanupto do this, I’ll be using the popular MEE6 bot which also has delete functionality.

1. Add the MEE6 bot to your Discord server. You can ignore this step if your server already has a MEE6 bot. If you’re a Discord newbie, follow our guide toadd bots to your Discord server.

2.Use the command ‘!clear ’to delete a certain number of messages from a Discord channel. Do note that the maximum limit is 1000 messages and you can delete messages that are up to 2 weeks old.

3. Soon after you send the command message, the MEE6 bot will delete messages and show you a prompt to indicate that it has deleted the message.

4. If you want to quickly clear messages from a specific channel and you’re an admin of the server, you can simply clone the channel and delete the old one. To do this, right-click the existing channel andchoose ‘Clone Channel’.

5. Now, you can use the same name for the channel or slightly tweak it. After setting the name, click ‘Create Channel’.

6. Discord will clone the original channel with the same permissions and user limit. You can delete the old channel by right-clicking and choosing ‘Delete Channel’.

7. When the pop-up appears, choose ‘Delete Channel’ again and you’re all set! You now have a clean new channel with the same participants.

Frequently Asked Questions

Unfortunately,deleting your Discord account will not delete your message. The service will change the deleted account’s username to something like ‘Deleted User#0000’, but messages will stay. You can follow the steps here to manually bulk-delete Discord messages beforedeleting your Discord account.

Discord doesn’t recommend using self-bots to remove messages. However, you can use bots like MEE6 to remove messages that follow the company’s API guidelines.

Yes, deleting a message removes it for the sender and receiver. However, you can only delete your messages and can’t delete messages the other person has sent you.

No, blocking someone on Discord will not remove messages. While the blocked person can no longer send you messages, they can still access the old chat history.

Subin writes about consumer tech, software, and security. He secretly misses the headphone jack while pretending he’s better off with the wireless freedom.