How to Select Multiple Pins on Pinterest: The Complete 2026 Guide

Anyone who has tried to tidy a board with four hundred Pins in it knows the problem. Moving them one at a time is slow enough to make you give up halfway. Pinterest does have a bulk tool for this, called Organize, but it’s tucked away and it comes with a couple of limits worth knowing before you start.

Quick answer: open a board, click Organize, tap the Pins you want, then choose Move, Copy or Delete. Pinterest lets you select up to 50 Pins per action, so big boards get done in batches.

Here’s how it works on desktop and mobile, how to use it for sections, and what to do before you delete anything you might want back.

Why Organize Your Pinterest Boards?

Keeping your boards organized makes it easier to find content later and manage your Pinterest account more efficiently. For creators, bloggers, and businesses, organized boards can also make a profile look more professional.

Some key benefits include:

• Finding saved ideas faster
• Keeping related Pins grouped together
• Removing outdated or duplicate content
• Making large boards easier to manage
• Creating a cleaner experience for visitors

The easiest way to manage large boards is by selecting multiple Pins at once.

Can you select multiple Pins on Pinterest?

Yes, inside a board. Organize mode lets you pick as many Pins as you like, up to 50 at a time, and move them to another board, move them into a section, copy them elsewhere, or delete them together.

The one thing it won’t do is work outside a board. You can’t multi-select from the home feed or from search results. Every bulk action starts by opening the board the Pins live on.

Beyond saving time, there’s a practical reason to bother. Boards full of unrelated saves send a muddled topical signal, and that’s one of the quieter reasons Pinterest monthly views drop for accounts that seem to be doing everything else right.

How to select multiple Pins on Pinterest (desktop)

Desktop is the easiest place to do this. The screen shows more Pins at once and every bulk option is available.

1. Log in to Pinterest and open your profile.
2. Click the board you want to organize.
3. Click Organize near the top of the board.
4. Click each Pin you want to include. A checkmark appears on every selected Pin.
5. Choose Move, Copy or Delete from the bar that appears.
6. If you’re moving or copying, pick the destination board or section and click Save.

Click a selected Pin again to drop it from the selection, or hit Deselect all to start over.

A habit that helps on large boards: start from the bottom. Older Pins sit at the bottom and are usually the ones you want to move or clear out first, and working upward means the board doesn’t shift under you as Pins disappear.

How to select multiple Pins on Pinterest (mobile app)

The Pinterest app on iPhone and Android has the same feature, though where it sits varies a little by version.

1. Open the Pinterest app and go to your profile.
2. Open the board you want to edit.
3. Tap Organize. On some versions it’s inside the three-dot menu first.
4. Tap each Pin you want to select.
5. Choose Move, Copy or Delete.
6. Pick a destination board or section if you’re asked for one.

Some app versions don’t show every bulk option. If one is missing, or the board is genuinely large, switching to a desktop browser is faster than fighting the app.

How to move multiple Pins into sections

Sections split a big board into smaller categories. A Recipes board might have Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Desserts sections, and Organize is the quickest way to fill them.

1. Open the board.
2. Create the section first if it doesn’t exist yet.
3. Click Organize.
4. Select the Pins that belong in that section.
5. Click Move.
6. Choose the section as the destination.
7. Click Save.

Then repeat for the next category. Because you’re limited to 50 Pins per move, it’s worth creating all your sections up front and then working through the board one section at a time rather than bouncing between them.

How many Pins can you select at once? And is there a Select All?

Fifty per action, and no, there’s no Select All button.

Pinterest has never offered one inside Organize, so a board of 300 Pins means at least six rounds of selecting and moving. Tedious, but it’s the only route the platform provides, and it’s still far quicker than handling Pins individually.

If you find yourself doing this a lot, it’s a sign the board should have had sections from the start. Set them up before the board gets big and you’ll rarely need to bulk-move anything again.

Move, Copy and Delete: what each one actually does

Action	What happens	Use it for
Move	Pins leave the current board and appear in the destination	Reorganizing content into the right board or section
Copy	Pins stay where they are and a duplicate is created in the destination	Having the same Pin on two boards
Delete	Pins are removed permanently	Clearing out old, broken or duplicate Pins

The distinction between Move and Copy trips people up. Move takes the Pin off the original board. Copy leaves it there. If you’re trying to declutter, Copy will double your problem.

Rules to know before you bulk edit

• Group boards: you can only select and edit Pins you added yourself. Other contributors’ Pins won’t respond.
• Public to secret: some public boards won’t let you move Pins straight into a secret board. Copy them, then delete the originals.
• Delete is permanent. There’s no undo and no trash folder. Which leads to the next point.

Back up important Pins before deleting them

Once a Pin is deleted, it’s gone, and the original source page may have gone too. So before clearing out a board with anything valuable on it, save copies of what you’d want to keep.

The Pinterest video downloader saves any video Pin or Reel in its original quality, the Pinterest image downloader does the same for still Pins, and there’s a separate Pinterest GIF downloader for animated Pins that would otherwise come back as a frozen frame. None of them need an account.

The process is the same for each:

1. Open the Pin you want to keep.
2. Copy the Pin URL.
3. Paste it into the downloader.
4. Save the file to your device.

On a phone, saving Pinterest photos to your camera roll is the quickest version of that. Do this before the bulk delete, not after you’ve noticed something missing.

If you’re clearing boards because you’re leaving the platform altogether, there’s a separate guide to deleting a Pinterest business account that covers what happens to your Pins when you do.

Why can’t I select multiple Pins on Pinterest?

When Organize won’t cooperate, it’s almost always one of these.

You’re not inside a board. The home feed and search results don’t support multi-select. Open the board first.

You’re on a group board. You can only select Pins you personally added. If most of the board belongs to someone else, most of it won’t respond.

The app is out of date. Older versions hide or break Organize. Update it, or use a desktop browser.

Organize isn’t where you expect on mobile. Check the three-dot menu at the top of the board.

A temporary glitch. Refresh the page, log out and back in, or switch from the app to a browser. One of the three fixes it nearly every time.

And if you’re bulk-removing Pins you saved rather than Pins you created, there’s a dedicated walkthrough for how to unsave Pins on Pinterest that covers desktop, iOS and Android.

Final thoughts

Organize is the only real tool Pinterest gives you for managing boards at scale, and it’s good enough once you know the two rules: it only works inside a board, and it caps out at 50 Pins a go. Set your sections up early, work in batches, and save anything you’d miss before you press Delete.

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