Manage your recommendations and search results

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

There are several means to influence these recommendations and search results. Yous tin remove specific videos from your watch history and searches from your search history. You lot can too intermission your watch and search history, or outset fresh by immigration your watch and search history.

Watch history and search history

  • Remove individual videos from your watch history: If yous notice recommendations on a subject you lot're not interested in, try removing a video you lot previously watched on that topic. It may reduce the hazard of similar recommendations in the future.
  • Remove private searches from your search history: If yous notice recommendations on a discipline you lot're not interested in, try removing a previous search on that topic. It may reduce the take a chance of like recommendations in the future.
  • Suspension history: You tin pause your watch or search history when you don't desire your watches or searches to influence future recommendations and search results. For example, when you're researching a subject for a school project that y'all aren't personally interested in. Remember to resume your history when you lot're done.
  • Clear history: If your unabridged watch and search histories are no longer relevant to your interests, y'all can clear your search and watch histories. Tip: If you lot want to use your watch history to re-watch some videos, endeavour adding those videos to a playlist or "Watch Later" to notice them once again.

How to improve your YouTube recommendations and search results

Tune your recommendations

On your smart TV or game console

Remove recommended content from homepage

Yous can remove recommended videos by selecting "Not interested" on your homepage, or from your Home and Sentry Next pages on mobile:

  1. Get to the recommended video you'd like to remove.
  2. Printing and agree the select button on your remote.
  3. Select Not 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 similar the video, or Don't recommend channel to customize your recommendations.

Clear "Non 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 all the "Not interested" and "Don't recommend channel" feedback you've submitted, please follow the instructions below using your figurer, Android, or iPhone or iPad.

Recommendations using your Google Activity

YouTube uses information from your Google Account activity to influence your recommendations.
You tin can view and control your activity at myactivity.google.com. Learn more about controlling activity for your Google Account.

Cull topics in your recommendations

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

If you lot find a video that isn't related to the topic you've chosen on Home, let u.s.a. know by tapping More than and and so Not <topic>.

Note: You may have to update to the latest app version to see these features.

Remove recommended content from homepage

To remove recommended videos from your Home and Sentinel Adjacent pages on mobile:

  1. Become to the recommended video you'd like to remove.
  2. Tap More next to the video championship.
  3. TapNon interested.
  4. Tap Tell u.s.a. why to share why you'd like the video removed. You 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 upwards in your recommendations. Select More and and then Don't recommend channel.

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

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

  1. Become to My Activity. You might need to sign in to your Google Business relationship.
  2. Detect Other Google activity in the left-paw Carte or under the My Activity banner.
  3. Select "YouTube 'Not interested' feedback", so select Delete.

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

Recommendations using your Google Activity

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

You can view and command your activity at myactivity.google.com. Larn more most controlling activity for your Google Business relationship.

Manage playlists and liked videos

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

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