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 amongst other places.

There are several ways to influence these recommendations and search results. You lot can remove specific videos from your watch history and searches from your search history. You can also pause your watch and search history, or start fresh by immigration your watch and search history.

Watch history and search history

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

How to improve your YouTube recommendations and search results

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Remove recommended content from homepage

You tin remove recommended videos by selecting "Not interested" on your homepage, or from your Habitation and Sentinel Next pages on mobile:

  1. Go to the recommended video you'd similar to remove.
  2. Press and hold the select button on your remote.
  3. Select Not interested.
  4. Select Tell usa 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.

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

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

Recommendations using your Google Activity

YouTube uses data from your Google Account action to influence your recommendations.
You can view and command your activity at myactivity.google.com. Learn more than about controlling activeness for your Google Account.

Choose topics in your recommendations

If yous're signed in, you'll notice topics on Habitation and on watch pages to help you lot 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 help you discover content y'all desire to watch faster.

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

Notation: You may have to update to the latest app version to encounter these features.

Remove recommended content from homepage

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

  1. Go to the recommended video you'd similar to remove.
  2. Tap More adjacent to the video title.
  3. TapNon interested.
  4. Tap Tell us why to share why you'd similar the video removed. Yous tin can select I've already watched the video or I don't like the video to customize your recommendations.

You can as well make sure 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 be used to melody your recommendations. To articulate the "Not interested" and "Don't recommend channel" feedback you've submitted:

  1. Go to My Activity. You might demand to sign in to your Google Account.
  2. Find Other Google activity in the left-paw Bill of fare or under the My Activeness banner.
  3. Select "YouTube 'Not interested' feedback", and then select Delete.

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

Recommendations using your Google Action

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

You tin can view and control your activity at myactivity.google.com. Learn more than about controlling activity for your Google Account.

Manage playlists and liked videos

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

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