View, clear, or pause watch history (signed in)

YouTube watch history makes information technology easy to find videos you recently watched and improves your video recommendations. You can control your watch history by immigration or pausing your history. Whatever videos that you sentinel while history is paused won't prove in your history. They likewise won't be used to improve your recommendations.

View, clear, or break watch history (signed in)

Sign in and go to myactivity.google.com to find videos that you've viewed on the YouTube app or website while signed in. It also includes videos y'all've watched in a YouTube player on other websites while signed in to Google Chrome.

Changes you make to your account watch history will be reflected on all devices you lot sign in to with this account.

If you've removed any videos from your picket history while your device was offline, information technology might take a few hours for those changes to sync.

To view or delete what you lot've previously searched for on YouTube, check out your search history.

Current estimator experience

Old figurer experience

  • Remove a video: To remove a video from your lookout man history, click Remove  to the right of the video details.
  • Clear watch history: To delete your entire history, click Clear all lookout history.
  • Pause scout history: To pause your history, click Pause lookout man history.

Articulate or pause watch history (signed out)

Even when y'all're signed out, YouTube improves your recommendations based on the videos you watch on that device. Yous tin can clear or pause the history from your device.

Notation: Y'all cannot view your spotter history while signed out. You lot can follow the steps in a higher place to pause or clear your watch history.

Search sentinel history on a figurer

To find videos that you've watched before, search your sentinel history.

  1. Go to your Watch history.
  2. At the pinnacle right, go to "Search watch history".
  3. Enter what yous're looking for in the box.
  4. Click Search  .

View our other manufactures for more than info well-nigh search history and managing your recommendations.

Automatically delete your search and picket history

You tin choose to delete your YouTube search and watch history automatically afterwards a certain corporeality of time.

  1. On your computer, get to your Google Business relationship.
  2. On the top left-navigation, click Information & personalization.
  3. Nether "Activity controls," click YouTube History, then click Manage activity.
  4. At the top right, click More More and then Keep activity for...
  5. Click the button for how long you lot want to go on your activity and then Adjacent and then Confirm to save your choice.

View or articulate your search history

To view or delete what y'all've previously searched for on YouTube, cheque out your search history.

If you employ YouTube Music

Acquire more than about how to manage your picket history for YouTube Music here.

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