Did you know that YouTube tracks and saves all of your browsing data? YouTube even remembers all the videos that you have watched earlier. Does it sound intimidating to you?
YouTube keeps track of your watch history to improve YouTube’s user experience and provide you with the content you may like.
However, if you noticed that YouTube started suggesting to watch unrelated videos or you just don’t want YouTube to keep such data, then you may consider deleting your YouTube watch history.
In this article you will learn how to delete your YouTube watch history using your computer or smartphone.
Let’s get started!
How to delete your YouTube watch history using computer?
To delete your YouTube watch history using your desktop computer or laptop, follow the steps below:
- Go to YouTube and login to your YouTube (Google) account;
- Click on the menu icon on the left top corner and select “History” from the drop-down menu;
- The additional menu on the right will appear, select “Clear all watch history”;
- Popup window will appear, confirm it by clicking “Clear all watch history” again.
In case you would like to delete only certain videos but not the whole watch history, you can do that by clicking “x” next to the video title.
Also, if you would like to stop YouTube from saving your watch history, you can simply select “Pause watch history”. However, you should be warned that the suggestions you get later on will mostly be unrelated to your watch history.
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How to delete your YouTube watch history using smartphone?
To delete your YouTube watch history using YouTube app on your smartphone, follow the steps below:
- Open up YouTube app on your smartphone and make sure that you are logged in to your YouTube (Google) account;
- Tap on the “Library” icon at the bottom right side of your screen;
- Click on “History”;
- Tap on the menu icon on the top right side of your screen, select “History controls” from the drop-down menu;
- Select “Clear watch history”;
- Popup window will appear, confirm it by clicking “Clear watch history” again.
As mentioned earlier, if you would like to stop YouTube from saving your watch history, then you can simply turn off the toggle next to “Pause watch history”. YouTube won’t be saving your watch history from now on.
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I hope that you were able to successfully delete your YouTube watch history and even pause it so YouTube wouldn’t save it from now on. If you have any questions regarding this topic, then leave a comment below!
