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---
title: messages.deleteMessages
description: Deletes messages by their identifiers.
image: https://docs.madelineproto.xyz/favicons/android-chrome-256x256.png
redirect_from: /API_docs/methods/messages_deleteMessages.html
---
# Method: messages.deleteMessages
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Deletes messages by their identifiers.
### Parameters:
| Name | Type | Description | Required |
|----------|---------------|-------------|----------|
|revoke|[Bool](../types/Bool.md) | Whether to delete messages for all participants of the chat | Optional|
|id|Array of [int](../types/int.md) | IDs of messages to delete, use channels->deleteMessages for supergroups | Yes|
### Return type: [messages.AffectedMessages](../types/messages.AffectedMessages.md)
### Can bots use this method: **YES**
### MadelineProto Example ([now async for huge speed and parallelism!](https://docs.madelineproto.xyz/docs/ASYNC.html)):
```php
if (!file_exists('madeline.php')) {
copy('https://phar.madelineproto.xyz/madeline.php', 'madeline.php');
}
include 'madeline.php';
$MadelineProto = new \danog\MadelineProto\API('session.madeline');
$MadelineProto->start();
$messages.AffectedMessages = $MadelineProto->messages->deleteMessages(['revoke' => Bool, 'id' => [int, int], ]);
```
Or, if you're into Lua:
```lua
messages.AffectedMessages = messages.deleteMessages({revoke=Bool, id={int}, })
```
### Errors
| Code | Type | Description |
|------|----------|---------------|
|403|MESSAGE_DELETE_FORBIDDEN|You can't delete one of the messages you tried to delete, most likely because it is a service message.|