How to Mass Delete Discord Messages

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Discord is a popular communication platform that allows users to create servers and channels for messaging. As servers and channels grow over time, you may find yourself wanting to delete a lot of messages at once to clean things up. Thankfully, Discord provides a way to mass delete messages in a channel. In this blog post, I’ll explain the steps to easily mass delete messages in Discord.

Steps to Mass Delete Messages

Here are the steps to delete messages in bulk on Discord:

  • Have Manage Messages permission – You need to have the “Manage Messages” permission in the channel to be able to mass delete messages. Server admins automatically have this permission.
  • Go to the channel – Navigate to the Discord channel where you want to delete messages. This can be a text or voice channel.
  • Open channel settings – Click the channel name at the top and select “Edit Channel” from the dropdown menu. This opens the channel settings.
  • Go to permissions – In the channel settings, go to the “Permissions” tab.
  • Enable 2FA on your account – Scroll down and enable “Two-Factor Authorization” on your Discord account if it isn’t already enabled. Enabling 2FA is required to mass delete messages.
  • Close channel settings – You can close the channel settings pop-up now.
  • Select messages – Now select the messages you want to delete by holding Shift or Ctrl (Command on Mac) and clicking the messages.
  • Delete messages – Right click on the selected messages and choose “Delete X Messages” where X is the number of selected messages.
  • Confirm deletion – Discord will ask you to confirm the mass deletion. Click “Delete” to permanently delete all the selected messages.

And that’s it! The selected Discord messages should now be deleted in bulk. Keep in mind there is a limit to how many messages you can mass delete at once, usually around 100 messages.

Conclusion

Deleting lots of Discord messages can be tedious, but is necessary sometimes to tidy up busy servers. Thankfully Discord has a straightforward built-in option to mass delete messages. Just make sure you have the proper permissions, enable 2FA, select the messages, and confirm the deletion. Now you can easily clean up your Discord servers and keep your channels clutter-free.