YouTube remembers each video you’ve ever watched, assuming you’re signed in together with your Google account. YouTube makes use of this historical past for suggestions, and even encourages you to re-watch outdated movies. Right here’s the right way to clear up your watch historical past—or cease amassing it.

The watch and search histories are solely saved should you’re signed into YouTube together with your Google account whereas watching.

Take away Objects From Your Watch Historical past (and Search Historical past)

YouTube’s Android app has an Incognito Mode you may allow to quickly forestall it from amassing historical past. You possibly can even have YouTube cease amassing your watch historical past solely utilizing the directions beneath. So, should you’re about to look at one thing you don’t need in your historical past, use the beneath ideas as an alternative.

However, should you’ve already watched a video, Incognito Mode gained’t assist and also you’ll have to take away it out of your historical past should you don’t need to see it once more.

To do that in your internet browser, head to the YouTube web site and click on the menu button on the high left nook of the web page. Click on the “Historical past” choice underneath Library within the sidebar.

To take away an merchandise out of your watch historical past, click on or faucet the “X” to the correct of it. You could hover over the video together with your mouse to see the “X” on the desktop web site.

You can too choose “Search Historical past” right here to see your entire listing of searches you’ve made on YouTube. Click on the “X” to the correct of a search to delete it.

You can too delete gadgets out of your watch historical past within the YouTube app for iPhone, Android, or iPad.

To take action, faucet the “Library” icon on the toolbar on the backside of the app, after which faucet the “Historical past” choice.

Faucet the menu button to the correct of a video, after which faucet the “Take away From Watch Historical past” choice.

We don’t see a method to view your complete search historical past and take away particular person searches from it within the YouTube cellular app. You need to use the YouTube web site to take away particular person searches. You can too clear your complete YouTube search historical past from the app utilizing the beneath directions.

Clear Your Complete Watch Historical past (and Search Historical past)

Somewhat than deleting particular person watched movies, you may simply clear your complete watch historical past from Google’s servers. Be warned: It will make YouTube’s video suggestions worse, as YouTube gained’t know what sorts of movies you want watching.

To do that on the YouTube web site, click on the menu button on the high left nook of the web page, after which click on the “History” choice. To the correct of your watched movies, click on the “Clear All Watch Historical past” command.

A dialog field will seem, asking you for affirmation. Click on “Clear Watch Historical past” to verify your selection.

To delete your YouTube search historical past, click on “Search Historical past” underneath Historical past Sort right here, after which click on the “Clear All Search Historical past” command.

To clear your complete historical past within the YouTube cellular app, head to Library > Historical past. Faucet the menu button on the high of the app, after which faucet the “Historical past Settings” choice.

You can too faucet “Clear Search Historical past” right here to clear your complete YouTube search historical past.

Use YouTube’s Incognito Mode

In the event you’re about to look at some embarrassing movies you don’t need YouTube remembering later, strive utilizing YouTube’s Incognito Mode.

For now, YouTube’s Incognito Mode is new and solely out there within the Android app. Sooner or later, Google will hopefully add this characteristic to the iPhone app, web site, and YouTube apps for different platforms.

To allow Incognito Mode, faucet your profile image on the high proper nook of the YouTube Android app, after which faucet “Incognito Mode” on the menu display screen that seems. After enabling Incognito Mode, any searches you make and movies you watch within the present session gained’t be saved.

Pause YouTube Historical past Assortment

You possibly can’t allow YouTube’s Incognito Mode on most platforms, however you are able to do one thing nearly nearly as good: Pause your YouTube watch historical past earlier than watching one thing you don’t need in your historical past.

This setting is account-wide, so YouTube will cease remembering movies you watched on all of your gadgets—iPhone, Android, iPad, web site, Roku, sensible TV, or the rest—assuming you’re signed into YouTube together with your account on that system.

To do that by way of the online, go to YouTube’s web site and click on the “Historical past” choice within the sidebar. Click on the “Pause Watch Historical past” hyperlink to the correct of your YouTube watch historical past. YouTube will warn you that it gained’t acquire any watch historical past whilst you’ve paused this, which can make its suggestions worse. Click on “Pause” to proceed.

You can too choose “Search Historical past” right here and click on “Pause Search Historical past” to cease YouTube from remembering the searches you make. To do that by way of the YouTube app for iPhone, Android, or iPad, head to Library > Historical past. On the Historical past web page, open the menu, after which faucet the “Historical past Settings” button.

Scroll right down to the Historical past & Privateness part and activate the “Pause Watch Historical past” choice. You can too activate the “Pause Search Historical past” choice right here to stop YouTube from amassing your search historical past.

YouTube will cease remembering movies you’ve watched, so you may watch all of the Peppa Pig you need with out YouTube remembering.

If you’re achieved binging and wish YouTube to recollect your watch historical past once more, return right here and click on “Flip On Watch Historical past” (on the web site) or disable the “Pause Watch Historical past” choice (within the app). You possibly can go away watch historical past disabled for so long as you want—even perpetually. It’s as much as you.

To maintain kids’s movies out of your YouTube historical past, you could possibly additionally simply give them the YouTube Children app. Searches and movies within the child-friendly YouTube Children app gained’t seem in your regular YouTube watch historical past.

Bear in mind: Even should you’ve paused your YouTube watch historical past, your internet browser will nonetheless maintain storing the YouTube internet pages you view in your shopping historical past. This doesn’t apply should you’re watching YouTube in an app, in fact. However, in a browser, your browser will keep in mind YouTube internet pages like every other web page you’ve visited.