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Discord: Deleting Multiple Messages At Once

Lately I had to remove several message at once on Discord, but I figured out how painful that was.

This is because I didn't know about this tip.

1. How To Delete A Message

I'm pretty sure you already know how to do delete a message, but let's think about it: to remove a single message, it requires you 3 clicks:

Step 1
Step 2
Step 3

Now imagine that you want to delete dozens of messages (for instance, bot commands), then it can quickly get painful. ๐Ÿ˜“

2. The solution

There's a hack for deleting multiple messages at once, and this is: just hold your Shift key while hovering messages. Here's how the options panel will now look like:

Options panel

Now from here, you just have to click the trash icon for your message to be remove. You won't need to confirm the removal anymore: once you've click this button, your message is deleted. ๐Ÿฅณ

Conclusion

I hope this article was useful for you!

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