Clearbox — Bulk Chat & Message Deleter for Instagram

Delete your Instagram messages in bulk — and keep the chats that matter. If you have ever searched how to delete Instagram messages, you already know the answer is grim: Instagram removes conversations one at a time. Open the row menu, click Delete, confirm. Then do it again. And again. An Instagram DM inbox with a few hundred threads is an afternoon of clicking. Clearbox does it for you. It is a bulk Instagram message deleter that drives the app's own interface — the same row menu, the same Delete button, the same confirmation — one conversation after another, at a speed you choose, while you watch the count go up. WHAT MAKES CLEARBOX DIFFERENT: PROTECTED CHATS Bulk deletion is easy to regret. One conversation you actually cared about disappears, and there is no undo. So Clearbox lets you protect conversations. Scan your inbox once, tick the names you never want removed, and they are skipped on every run from then on. The list is saved, so you set it up a single time and stop worrying about it. HOW IT WORKS 1. Open your Instagram inbox at instagram.com/direct 2. Click the Clearbox icon in your toolbar 3. Pick the scope — every chat, or cap it at 10, 25 or 50 — and pick a speed 4. Read the final check screen: it spells out exactly what is about to happen 5. Confirm, and watch it work WHAT YOU GET • Bulk delete Instagram chats — mass delete the whole inbox, or cap it at a number • Protected conversations that are never touched, on any run • Three speeds, so you can stay well under Instagram's own limits • A live progress badge on the page, so you can close the popup and keep browsing • A Stop button that works mid-run, not just between chats • A history of every deleted chat with its name, so you can find someone again • A pre-flight check that refuses to start when something looks wrong — better than stopping halfway • Available in 52 languages DELETE IS NOT THE SAME AS UNSEND Worth being clear, because the two get mixed up constantly. Clearbox removes whole conversations from your inbox. It does not unsend the individual messages you sent inside a thread. If you are looking for how to delete Instagram chats from your own list, this is the right tool. If you want to retract single messages inside one conversation, you want an unsend tool instead. One more thing worth knowing: deleting a conversation removes it only on your side. The other person still has it, and the chat reappears in your inbox if they write to you again. That is how Instagram works, not a limitation of the extension — and it is exactly why Clearbox keeps a log of the names it removed. PRIVACY Everything runs inside your browser, using the Instagram session you are already signed into. • No account, no sign-up, no password — Clearbox never sees your credentials • Your messages are never read, collected or uploaded. The extension only reads the names shown in your chat list, so it knows which row to act on • Your settings, your protected list and your deletion history are stored locally in your browser and nowhere else • No analytics, no tracking, no ads GOOD TO KNOW • Works on instagram.com in Chrome and other Chromium browsers (Edge, Brave, Opera) • Keep the Instagram tab in the foreground while it runs. Chrome slows down background tabs, so a job left in the background takes much longer • Deleting cannot be undone. That is why there is a confirmation screen, and why protected chats exist • If Instagram changes its interface and something breaks, tell us and we will fix it Clearbox is an independent browser extension. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Instagram or Meta. Instagram is a trademark of Meta Platforms, Inc.