Manage your recommendations and search results

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

There 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 as well pause your sentinel and search history, or start fresh by clearing your lookout and search history.

Watch history and search history

  • Remove individual videos from your sentinel history: If you notice recommendations on a subject you're not interested in, attempt removing a video you previously watched on that topic. Information technology may reduce the chance of similar recommendations in the futurity.
  • Remove individual searches from your search history: If you notice recommendations on a subject you're not interested in, try removing a previous search on that topic. It may reduce the take a chance of similar recommendations in the future.
  • Pause history: Y'all tin can intermission your watch or search history when you don't want your watches or searches to influence future recommendations and search results. For example, when you're researching a subject area for a school projection that you lot aren't personally interested in. Remember to resume your history when yous're done.
  • Clear history: If your entire watch and search histories are no longer relevant to your interests, you can clear your search and sentinel histories. Tip: If you want to use your lookout history to re-spotter some videos, effort calculation those videos to a playlist or "Scout Later" to discover them again.

How to improve your YouTube recommendations and search results

Tune your recommendations

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Remove recommended content from homepage

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

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

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

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

Recommendations using your Google Activity

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

Choose topics in your recommendations

If y'all'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 notice content you want to watch faster.

If y'all find a video that isn't related to the topic yous've chosen on Habitation, let u.s. know by tapping More than and then Not <topic>.

Note: Y'all 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 Watch Next pages on mobile:

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

You can also make sure that videos from specific channels don't prove up in your recommendations. Select More and and so 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 articulate the "Not interested" and "Don't recommend channel" feedback you lot've submitted:

  1. Go to My Activity. You might need to sign in to your Google Account.
  2. Find Other Google activeness in the left-manus Menu or under the My Activity banner.
  3. Select "YouTube 'Non interested' feedback", then select Delete.

View our other articles 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 control your activity at myactivity.google.com. Larn more most controlling activeness for your Google Business relationship.

Manage playlists and liked videos

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

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