How to delete the labels in JIRA?

[Daniel Farias]

How to delete the labels in JIRA? We need to standardize field names in uppercase and there are several fills.

[ConradR · Accepted solution]

You will have to remove the labels from all Issues:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRAKB/How+to+Delete+Labels+in+JIRA

But if you do this by Bulk Editing, all other labels of the edited Issues will be removed.

A second way is to remove them directly in your DB, but this is just recommended if you really know what you are doing.

This might help:

https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/141323/is-it-possible-to-rename-a-label

[Nicolas Bier]

I want to point-out that with a recent version of JIRA you can now remove a single label from issues using a bulk operation.

[Nar Kumar C_ - Narva Software]

If you have a large number of labels, removing from each issue will be impossible.

For that use case, we have developed an app: Label Manager for Jira Cloud

It allows managing labels (searching, filtering, changing name, deleting etc.) from a single page. Try it out and let us know if you face any issues.