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

YouTube watch history makes it easy to find videos you recently watched and improves your video recommendations. You can control your sentry history by immigration or pausing your history. Any videos that you picket while history is paused won't show in your history. They likewise won't be used to amend your recommendations.

View, clear, or intermission lookout history (signed in)

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

Changes you make to your business relationship scout history will be reflected on all devices yous sign in to with this account.

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

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

Current figurer experience

Erstwhile reckoner experience

  • Remove a video: To remove a video from your scout history, click Remove  to the correct of the video details.
  • Clear spotter history: To delete your entire history, click Clear all watch history.
  • Pause watch history: To suspension your history, click Pause watch history.

Articulate or pause sentry history (signed out)

Fifty-fifty when you're signed out, YouTube improves your recommendations based on the videos y'all watch on that device. You lot can clear or pause the history from your device.

Note: You cannot view your sentinel history while signed out. You tin follow the steps above to suspension or articulate your scout history.

Search watch history on a reckoner

To observe videos that you lot've watched earlier, search your watch history.

  1. Go to your Lookout man history.
  2. At the top right, go to "Search spotter history".
  3. Enter what you lot're looking for in the box.
  4. Click Search  .

View our other manufactures for more info about search history and managing your recommendations.

Automatically delete your search and watch history

You can choose to delete your YouTube search and lookout history automatically after a certain amount of time.

  1. On your calculator, go to your Google Account.
  2. On the summit left-navigation, click Data & personalization.
  3. Nether "Activity controls," click YouTube History, then click Manage activity.
  4. At the elevation right, click More More and then Keep activeness for...
  5. Click the button for how long you want to keep your activity and then Next and then Confirm to relieve your choice.

View or clear your search history

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

If you apply YouTube Music

Learn more nearly how to manage your scout history for YouTube Music here.

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