This is all the information you require to access, clear, and pause your YouTube viewing history.
Although keeping track of the videos you’ve watched on YouTube with your watch history can be helpful, it can occasionally obstruct your recommendations. Here’s how to access your viewing history through the website and app, as well as how to control it by pausing or clearing it.
How to See Your YouTube Watch History
You must first gain access to your YouTube watch history in order to manage it. Luckily, it’s quite simple to do so.
If you’re on the YouTube website, look at the menu on the left and choose History from the You tab.
The choice is a little bit more hidden on the YouTube mobile app. Choose the You tab located at the bottom of the page to view your watch history within the app. This opens a page containing your playlists and history. Click the View all button next to History to view your history.
You can control your history using this page in a number of ways, including by clearing or suspending it.
How to Clear Your Watch History on YouTube
You may wish to delete your watch history from time to time. Although you might wish to do this for privacy concerns, deleting something from your viewing history also stops YouTube from making related video recommendations.
Once more, using the YouTube website makes the process simpler. You have the option to Clear all watch history on the right. After you click this, agree with YouTube that you wish to remove your viewing history from all apps and devices and reset your video recommendations.
To eliminate a specific video from your history, simply hover your cursor over it and choose the X symbol to erase it.
To clear all of your watch history when using the YouTube mobile app, hit the three dots at the top of the screen. Similar to the website, you must choose the option to Clear watch history again in order to verify that you wish to remove your information.
Tap the three dots next to any video in the app to bring up a menu. From there, choose delete from watch history to delete that specific video from your history.
How to Pause Your YouTube Watch History
You can prevent everything you intend to watch from being saved in your past and used to inform recommendations by pausing your YouTube watch history. You can also use it in the event that you don’t want the videos viewed by someone else on your account to influence your suggestions.
The option to Pause watch history is located on the right side of the screen when you visit the YouTube website. You’ll need to select Pause from the popup menu to confirm your choice. To resume your watch history, choose the Turn On watch history option.
On your history page, tap the three dots at the top of the YouTube mobile app to pause your viewing history. Choose Pause watch history after that. A new banner that allows you to resume seeing your watch history will show up at the top of the history page after you have confirmed that you wish to pause it. Whenever you want your history to continue, use the Turn on option.
If you would rather not have YouTube store any of your viewing history, you can also choose to disable its tracking capabilities on both the website and the app. As long as you know which menus to access, managing your history should be rather simple. With any luck, you now have all the knowledge required to maintain control over your YouTube viewing history and get rid of any content that interferes with your suggestions.