Manage your recommendations and search results

Your activeness on YouTube, Google, and Chrome may influence your YouTube search results, recommendations on the home page, in-app notifications, and suggested videos among other places.

At that place are several ways to influence these recommendations and search results. You can remove specific videos from your watch history and searches from your search history. You can besides suspension your watch and search history, or start fresh by immigration your scout and search history.

Spotter history and search history

  • Remove individual videos from your picket history: If you notice recommendations on a discipline yous're not interested in, try removing a video yous previously watched on that topic. It may reduce the chance of like recommendations in the hereafter.
  • Remove individual searches from your search history: If you notice recommendations on a subject yous're not interested in, try removing a previous search on that topic. Information technology may reduce the chance of similar recommendations in the future.
  • Suspension history: Y'all tin can pause your watch or search history when you don't desire your watches or searches to influence futurity recommendations and search results. For example, when you lot're researching a subject field for a school project that you aren't personally interested in. Retrieve to resume your history when you're done.
  • Clear history: If your entire picket and search histories are no longer relevant to your interests, you can clear your search and watch histories. Tip: If you lot want to utilise your sentinel history to re-watch some videos, attempt calculation those videos to a playlist or "Picket Later" to find them again.

How to amend your YouTube recommendations and search results

Tune your recommendations

On your smart TV or game panel

Remove recommended content from homepage

Yous can remove recommended videos past selecting "Not interested" on your homepage, or from your Home and Watch Adjacent pages on mobile:

  1. Go to the recommended video you'd like to remove.
  2. Printing and hold the select button on your remote.
  3. Select Non interested.
  4. Select Tell us why to share why you'd like the video removed. You can select I've already watched the video, I don't like the video, or Don't recommend channel to customize your recommendations.

Clear "Non interested" and "Don't recommend aqueduct" feedback

Your "Not Interested" and "Don't recommend channel" feedback may be used to tune your recommendations. To clear all the "Not interested" and "Don't recommend channel" feedback you've submitted, please follow the instructions beneath using your computer, Android, or iPhone or iPad.

Recommendations using your Google Activeness

YouTube uses data from your Google Account activity to influence your recommendations.
You can view and control your activity at myactivity.google.com. Learn more virtually controlling activity for your Google Business relationship.

Choose topics in your recommendations

If you're signed in, you'll notice topics on Home and on watch pages to aid you refine your recommendations. These topics are chosen based on your existing, personalized suggestions. The topics are also based on content related to what you interact with. These topics are meant to help you find content you want to watch faster.

If yous find a video that isn't related to the topic you've called on Home, let us know by tapping More and then Not <topic>.

Annotation: You may take to update to the latest app version to see these features.

Remove recommended content from homepage

To remove recommended videos from your Home and Watch Next pages on mobile:

  1. Go to the recommended video y'all'd similar to remove.
  2. Tap More than next to the video championship.
  3. TapNon interested.
  4. Tap Tell u.s.a. why to share why you'd similar the video removed. You lot can select I've already watched the video or I don't like the video to customize your recommendations.

You can also make certain that videos from specific channels don't show up in your recommendations. Select More and and then Don't recommend channel.

Clear "Not interested" and "Don't recommend channel" feedback

Your "Not Interested" and "Don't recommend channel" feedback may exist used to tune your recommendations. To clear the "Not interested" and "Don't recommend channel" feedback you've submitted:

  1. Get to My Activity. You might need to sign in to your Google Account.
  2. Discover Other Google activity in the left-paw Bill of fare or under the My Activity imprint.
  3. Select "YouTube 'Not interested' feedback", then select Delete.

View our other manufactures for more info about watch history, search history, and improving your recommendations.

Recommendations using your Google Activity

YouTube uses data from your Google Account activity to influence your recommendations.

You can view and command your activity at myactivity.google.com. Learn more almost decision-making action for your Google Account.

Manage playlists and liked videos

Your recommendations and search results are also based on videos that yous've liked and playlists that you've created. Yous can remove liked videos and edit or delete playlists to influence your recommendations and search results.

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