How to Delete Clips on Twitch
Two parties can delete the same clip, which is useful to know before an argument about one.
Here is how to delete clips on Twitch: open the creator dashboard, go to content and then clips, select the ones you want gone and delete them. That covers every clip made on your channel, whoever created it, and a clip you made elsewhere is deleted from your own clips list.
If you made a clip on someone else's channel, it appears under your own clips and you can delete it there.
Deletion is immediate and permanent, and it breaks every embed and link to that clip.
Clips are the part of a channel that keeps being found later, which is why which ones exist matters as much as which ones are removed. Views on a Twitch video acts on the ones you want surfaced.
Shared control is the unusual part of Twitch clips, and it has consequences in both directions.
A clip lives on the channel it was taken from and is attributed to the viewer who created it. Both sides can delete it: the streamer, through the dashboard, and the creator, from their own clips list.
For streamers, that means a clip of a moment you regret can be removed, including clips made by other people, and that is the right tool for anything taken out of context.
It also means removal is not containment. A clip that circulated has been downloaded, reuploaded and screenshotted by then, and deleting the original only removes the copy you control. The link stops working; the video does not stop existing.
For clip creators, the mirror applies: a clip you made can vanish because the streamer removed it, with no notice and no appeal.
The third party in the arrangement is everybody who embedded the clip. Deletion breaks those embeds instantly, which is why a deleted clip is usually noticed by a confused reader rather than announced.
Deleting from your own channel
Creator dashboard, content, clips. The list covers clips made by anyone on your channel.
Filters by date range and by creator make it possible to find a specific one in a long list.
Select and delete. There is no recycle bin and no undo.
For a bulk clean-up, the date filter is the practical tool; there is no automated deletion by age.
The filters are the only practical way through a long list. Filtering by date range finds the clips from a specific stream, and filtering by creator finds everything one person made, which is what you want when somebody has been clipping in bad faith.
Deleting a clip you made elsewhere
Your own clips are listed in your dashboard under clips, with the channel each came from.
You can delete any clip you created, on any channel.
You cannot edit a clip after publishing. Trimming happens in the editor before it exists.
If a clip you made was removed by the channel, it simply disappears from your list.
Clips you created remain attributed to you on the other channel, with your name on the page. For anybody who clips a lot, that attribution is a small public record of what you watch, which is worth knowing before clipping from an account you use professionally.
What deletion does not do
It does not remove downloaded copies, reuploads on other platforms, or anything already embedded as a file rather than as a link.
It does not delete the source broadcast, which may still be available and clippable.
It does not notify anybody, including the clip's creator.
And it does not remove the clip from search engine caches immediately, though the page itself stops working.
A clip that has already spread is better answered than erased. Deleting it removes your copy and leaves the reuploads, while a short public explanation reaches the people who saw the thing itself.
A routine for reviewing clips
Clips accumulate silently, and a channel that has never looked at its own clips page is usually represented by something it would not choose.
Open the clips list sorted by all time once a month. The top entries are what strangers see first, and they are often years old.
Delete the ones that misrepresent the channel: footage taken out of context, a bad moment from a hard day, anything involving somebody who has since asked not to appear.
Keep the ones that are genuinely good even when they are old. A clip that still gets views is doing work no new upload is doing.
Rename nothing, because titles cannot be edited, which is an argument for titling them carefully at creation.
And check who made the ones with the most views. A viewer who consistently clips well is somebody worth thanking, and in many channels that person becomes a moderator.
Stopping clips before they exist
Clipping can be disabled for a channel in the creator settings, which removes the control for viewers.
It is a blunt instrument: clips are also how most channels are discovered.
A middle path is to leave clipping on and moderate afterwards, which is what the dashboard list is for.
For specific segments, some streamers disable clipping temporarily, which is a manual action rather than a schedule.
The capture works backwards from the button, which making a clip explains, and moderation on a channel has other blunt tools, including removing a follower.
Turning clipping off also removes the one route by which a stream reaches people who were not watching. For most channels the cure is worse than the problem, and moderating afterwards keeps the discovery while removing the specific clips that should not exist.
Clips of a deleted account
If the channel is deleted, its clips go with it.
If the clip's creator deletes their account, the clip usually remains on the channel with the attribution changed.
Expiry does not apply to clips the way it applies to past broadcasts, so a clip persists until somebody removes it.
That permanence is the practical reason to treat a clip as published rather than as a casual capture.
Because clips persist, the clips page becomes the channel's front window for people arriving from outside. Views on a Twitch video acts on what gets seen there, alongside the rest of the Twitch services we carry.
A clip from a channel that was banned rather than deleted usually stops playing while its page remains, which is why old links return a broken player instead of a missing page. Nothing on your side recovers it.
Questions people ask about deleting clips
Can a streamer delete a clip someone else made?
Yes. Channel owners and their moderators can delete any clip taken from their channel, whoever created it.
Can I delete a clip I made on another channel?
Yes, from your own clips list in the dashboard. Creators keep control of their own clips.
Does deleting a clip remove copies elsewhere?
No. It breaks the link and the embeds, but downloads and reuploads on other platforms are outside Twitch's reach.
Is there any way to undo a deletion?
No. Clip deletion is immediate and permanent, with no recycle bin.
Can I stop people clipping my stream?
Yes, by disabling clips in the creator settings. It also removes one of the main ways channels are discovered.
Do clips expire like VODs?
No. Clips persist until someone deletes them, which is why they outlast the broadcasts they came from.
Keep reading
- views on a Twitch video — Clips are the part of a channel that keeps being found later, and views on a Twitch video acts on the number that decides which ones surface.
- making a clip — The capture works backwards from the button, which making a clip explains.
- removing a follower — Moderation on a channel has several blunt tools, and removing a follower covers another of them.