Manage your recommendations and search results

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

There are several ways to influence these recommendations and search results. Y'all can remove specific videos from your lookout man history and searches from your search history. You can as well pause your watch and search history, or start fresh by clearing your watch and search history.

Sentinel history and search history

  • Remove private videos from your sentinel history: If you notice recommendations on a bailiwick you lot're not interested in, effort removing a video y'all previously watched on that topic. It may reduce the chance of similar recommendations in the hereafter.
  • Remove individual searches from your search history: If y'all notice recommendations on a subject you're non interested in, try removing a previous search on that topic. It may reduce the chance of similar recommendations in the time to come.
  • Intermission history: You can pause your watch or search history when you don't want your watches or searches to influence future recommendations and search results. For case, when yous're researching a subject for a schoolhouse project that you aren't personally interested in. Think to resume your history when yous're washed.
  • Articulate history: If your entire lookout and search histories are no longer relevant to your interests, you can clear your search and watch histories. Tip: If you want to use your sentinel history to re-watch some videos, try calculation those videos to a playlist or "Watch Later" to notice them again.

How to improve your YouTube recommendations and search results

Tune your recommendations

On your Smart Tv or game consoles

Remove recommended content from homepage

You can remove recommended videos past selecting "Non interested" on your homepage, or from your Home and Watch Next pages on mobile:

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

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

Your "Not Interested" and "Don't recommend aqueduct" feedback may exist used to tune your recommendations. To articulate all the "Not interested" and "Don't recommend channel" feedback yous've submitted, please follow the instructions below using your computer, Android, or iPhone or iPad.

Recommendations using your Google Activity

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

Choose topics in your recommendations

If yous're signed in, you lot'll notice topics on Domicile and on watch pages to help you lot refine your recommendations. These topics are called 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 desire to watch faster.

If yous find a video that isn't related to the topic you lot've chosen on Home, let us know by tapping More than and so Non <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 Dwelling and Spotter Next pages on mobile:

  1. Go to the recommended video you'd like to remove.
  2. Tap More next to the video title.
  3. TapNot interested.
  4. Tap Tell us why to share why yous'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 lot tin can also make sure that videos from specific channels don't show up in your recommendations. Select More and then Don't recommend channel.

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

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

  1. Go to My Activity. You might need to sign in to your Google Business relationship.
  2. Observe Other Google activity in the left-hand Menu or nether the My Activity imprint.
  3. Select "YouTube 'Non interested' feedback", then select Delete.

View our other articles for more than info most 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 control your action at myactivity.google.com. Learn more about controlling activity for your Google Account.

Manage playlists and liked videos

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

New ways to manage recommendations | Backstage at YouTube

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