Google Docs is widely used for its collaboration capabilities, enabling multiple users to comment on documents in real-time. Removing comments in Google Docs is an essential task for streamlining document reviews and maintaining a clean, final draft.

This interactive feature is invaluable for team projects, peer reviews, and document editing across various sectors, from education to business. Comments can provide crucial feedback during the drafting phase, but once changes are made or feedback is noted, clearing these comments is necessary for presenting a polished document. Here, we will be looking at How To Remove Comments In Google Docs.

How to Use Google Docs Comments?

Commenting helps in understanding any difficult lines in the document or to give more clarification and detailing about the document to users. Users can also edit or delete the comments they made to a document in Google Docs. Only the person who commented on the document can delete the comment from the document. Not even the owner of the document can delete the comment of another user.

For the text in the document which are commented on, the background of that text is visible in a pale yellow color indicating that it has a comment added to it by users of the document. When a comment is deleted from the document, that text in the document changes back to a white background color.

How to Delete Resolved Comments in Google Docs

Comments can be removed from a document in Google Docs when using a desktop or laptop in two ways:

• Deleting comments from the right side of the page,
• Deleting comments from the comment history of the document.

How to Delete Comments from the Right Side of Page in Google Docs

Step 1: Open Google Docs and open the document

Visit Google Docs in any web browser on your desktop or laptop device. Open the document which has the comment in it to be deleted.

Step 2: Move your cursor over comments on the right side

The comments made to the document are present outside the page of the document to its right side.

Comments on the right side of page

Move your cursor on any comment you want to delete. The three dots become visible on that comment.

Cursor moved on to a comment in a document in Google Docs

Step 3: Click on the three vertical dots on the comment you want to delete

Click on the three vertical dots “More options” on the comment you want to delete.

Click on three vertical dots icon

Step 4: Click on “Delete” in the dropdown

A dropdown of options appears. Click on “Delete” to delete that comment from the document.

Click ‘Delete’ in the dropdown

Step 5: Click “Delete” in the alert box to confirm deleting

An alert box pops up asking “Delete this comment thread?”. Click on “Delete” in the alert box.

Click ‘Delete’ in the alert box

Step 6: Preview the Deleted Comments

That comment gets deleted from the document in Google Docs. Comment removed successfully in a document in Google Docs.

Comment is deleted in Google Docs

How to Remove Comments in Google Docs from Comment History

Step 1: Open Google Docs and open the document in which the comment is to be deleted

Visit Google Docs in any web browser in your desktop or laptop device. Open the document which has the comment in it to be deleted.

Document with comments appearing on the right side of page

Step 2: Click on the “Open comment history” icon

Click on the “right-most icon which is at the top right-most corner of Google Docs.

Click on the ‘Open Comment History’ icon at top rightmost corner

Step 3: Move the cursor on the comment to delete

A panel containing the list of all comments made to the documents is opened.

Panel of comments in the document opened

Move the cursor to the comment box you want to delete. The three dots become visible in that comment box.

Place your cursor on the comment box you want to delete

Step 4: Click on the three vertical dots on the comment box you want to delete

Click on the three vertical dots “More options” in the comment box you want to delete.

Click on three vertical dots in the comment box

Step 5: Click on “Delete” in the dropdown

A dropdown of options appears. Click on “Delete” to delete that comment from the document.

Click on ‘Delete’

Step 6: Click “Delete” in the alert box to confirm deleting the comment

An alert box pops up asking “Delete this comment thread?”. Click on “Delete” in the alert box to confirm deleting that comment from the document in Google Docs.

Click on ‘Delete’ in the alert box to confirm deleting

Step 7: Preview the Deleted Comment

That comment gets deleted from the document in Google Docs. Comment removed successfully in a document in Google Docs. Now on clicking the ‘comment history’ icon, all the other comments in the document except the deleted comment are present.

The deleted comment is not present in comment history now

How to Remove Comments in Google Docs on iOS device

Step 1: Open the Google Docs app on your iOS device

Open the Google Docs app on your device running iOS. Open the document in which the comment has to be deleted.

Step 2: Tap on the pale yellow content in the document to view its comment

Tap on the pale yellow content in the document. It opens a panel from the bottom to see all the comments made for that content.

Tap on the content with pale yellow background to view comment

Step 3: Click on three dots in the comment you want to delete

The comments made to that content become visible in a panel opened from the bottom of the app. Click on the three dots of the comment in the panel opened.

Tap on the three dots

Step 4: Click “Delete” in the dropdown opened

A dropdown opens. Click “Delete” in that dropdown.

Tap on ‘Delete’ in the dropdown

Step 5: Click “Yes” in the popup

A popup appears. Click “Yes” in the popup to confirm deleting that comment from the document.

Tap on ‘Yes’ to confirm deleting that comment

Step 6: That selected comment is deleted from the document

The comment was deleted from the document using Google Docs app. As it got deleted, the text that had a comment changes to a white background now.

Comment removed from document. So the background of content changed back to white color

Conclusion

In this article, we have discussed deleting comments in Google Docs. Also, we have discussed the two different approaches to deleting comments from documents in Google Docs easily. We discussed the steps to delete comments using the Google Docs app on smart devices.

Also Read: How to Remove Page Breaks in Google Docs

How To Remove Comments In Google Docs – FAQs

How do I turn off comments in Google Docs?

To turn off comments in Google Docs, change the document’s sharing settings to “Viewer” or “Commenter” for others, preventing them from adding new comments.

How do I get rid of green comments in Google Docs?

To get rid of green comments in Google Docs, you can delete them individually by clicking on the comment box, then clicking the three dots in the upper right corner of the comment, and selecting “Delete.” If you want to remove all comments at once, you can open the “Comments” sidebar by clicking on the “Comments” button in the upper right corner, then use the “Resolve” or “Delete” options for each comment listed.

Who can remove the comment from the Google Docs document?

Only the user who commented that comment can delete that specific comment from Google Docs. Even the owner of the document if he/she has not commented that, they cannot delete that comment from the document in Google Docs.

Does deleting a comment from a document remove it for every other viewer of the document in Google Docs?

Yes, once a comment has been deleted, it gets removed totally for all users. After deleting a comment, no users can be able to view that comment again.

Why I cannot delete some comments in the document in Google Docs?

If you are not the user who commented that comment, you do not have permission to delete that comment from the document in Google Docs.