Is your Bookmarks folder a mess? Have you synced your Google Chrome across several devices and now you’ve got more bookmarks than you know what to do with? Is your device a hand-me-down, full of someone else’s Chrome bookmarks? Fear not! We’re here to help.
Whatever your reasoning, if you want to learn how to delete all bookmarks from Chrome at once (or even each one individually), then all you have to do is to follow our step-by-step guides, laid out below. For any additional information, or if you have any other queries, please see our FAQs at the end of this article.
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How to delete all Chrome bookmarks at once (desktop)
- Power up your computer and open up Google Chrome, sign in to your Google account if necessary
- First, navigate to the ‘Bookmark manager’
- Either press CTRL + SHIFT + O on your keyboard
- Or click the three vertical dots in the top-right of your screen, navigate to Bookmarks, and then to ‘Bookmark manager’
- Either press CTRL + SHIFT + O on your keyboard
- You’ll be redirected to the Bookmark manager, where you will see a list of all of the bookmarks saved to this particular Google account, including all of the subfolders, containing more bookmarks within them.
- To delete all bookmarks at once, first, we’ll need to select them all. To do so, click on the first bookmark at the top of the list.
- Next, hold SHIFT on your keyboard, and using the arrows on your keyboard highlight all of the bookmarks and bookmark folders listed
- Lastly, press DELETE (or DEL) on your keyboard, or right-click anywhere in the highlighted zone and from the pop-up menu, select ‘Delete’
- If you’ve made a mistake at this point, you can ‘Undo’ the deletion by quickly clicking the ‘Undo’ pop-up in the bottom left
- Note: This pop-up will only remain on-screen for about 5 to 6 seconds, after which it will disappear and the deletion of your bookmarks will be permanent
How to delete Chrome bookmarks one-by-one (desktop)
- Power up your computer and open up Google Chrome, sign in to your Google account if necessary
- First, navigate to the ‘Bookmark manager’
- Either press CTRL + SHIFT + O on your keyboard
- Or click the three vertical dots in the top-right of your screen, navigate to Bookmarks, and then to ‘Bookmark manager’
- Either press CTRL + SHIFT + O on your keyboard
- You’ll be redirected to the Bookmark manager, where you will see a list of all of the bookmarks saved to this particular Google account, including all of the subfolders, containing more bookmarks within them.
- To delete one bookmark at a time, simply locate the first bookmark you wish to delete (or bookmark folder), right-click on it, and from the pop-up menu select ‘Delete’
- Repeat as necessary
How to delete any number of Chrome bookmarks (mobile/tablet)
- Open up the Chrome browser app on your mobile or tablet device
- Tap the three vertical menu dots in the top right
- From the drop-down menu, select ‘Bookmarks’
- You’ll likely be directed to the ‘Mobile Bookmarks’ section of bookmarks (i.e. only the bookmarks you’ve saved on this particular device, rather than across your Google Account). Come back out of this by tapping the left-facing arrow in the top-left
- Now tap on whichever area of your Bookmarks you want to delete something (or everything) from – either ‘Mobile bookmarks’, ‘Bookmarks bar’, or ‘Other bookmarks’
- You’ll be presented with the full list of your saved bookmarks and bookmark folders in that area. Let’s select the bookmarks (whether one or all) that you wish to delete. To do so, tap and hold the first unwanted bookmark until a blue tick/checkmark appears over it.
- Now, tap on each individual unwanted bookmark, until you’ve selected the full range which you wish to delete
- Once you’re ready to delete your selection, simply tap the Bin/Delete icon in the top-right
- Repeat as necessary in any remaining Bookmarks areas (like ‘Mobile’ or ‘Other’)
And there you have it! Whether you’re looking to delete all of your Chrome bookmarks at once, or just a small, curated selection of them, the process couldn’t be easier when you follow our step-by-step tutorials.
For any additional information or for any unanswered queries, please see the FAQs below.
Frequently asked questions
Why would I want to delete all my bookmarks in Chrome?
Google Chrome is an excellent and much-beloved web browser, used by millions of people all around the world, every single day. It allows its users to sync their data across multiple devices, so long as they are signed in to the same Google account on each device.
This feature is fantastic, as it means all of your saved passwords, bookmarks, and favorites pages (as well as search history) are synced across your various devices, making your user experience of the browser fast, accessible, and efficient.
However, this syncing feature can also quickly clog up your bookmarks folder, sometimes so badly that it becomes more hassle to sift through the hundreds of bookmarked tabs trying to find the right one, than just to try and search for the page by memory.
Indeed, sometimes, it’s worth just deleting all Chrome bookmarks at once and starting afresh. We’re here to help you do just that, whether on a mobile, tablet, or desktop. Simply follow our step-by-step guides above.
Can I recover accidentally deleted bookmarks in Chrome?
Unfortunately not. When you delete one or multiple bookmarks from Chrome, they are deleted permanently. You are given about five or six seconds to press ‘Undo’ once you’ve carried out the deletion, thus recovering the accidentally deleted bookmarks. However, if you miss this window, you’ll not be able to recover your bookmarks unless you remember what they are, and manually revisit the various sites and re-bookmark each and every one of them individually.
Will bookmarks I delete on one device also be deleted on another?
If your various devices are all synced so that Google Chrome is connected and synced to the one Google Account, then yes – when you delete bookmarks from that account, they will also disappear on all other devices running Google Chrome through that account.
Bookmarks you delete on one account, however, will not be removed from any other (separate) accounts you may own.
How do I delete one bookmark at a time instead of all bookmarks at once?
We’ll discuss this above in the step-by-step tutorials, but the process is easy. You simply have to go to the Google Chrome Bookmarks Manager and click on one bookmark at a time, pressing DELETE on each as you go, rather than selecting a whole bunch of them and deleting them all at once.
