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 ways to influence these recommendations and search results. Y'all tin can remove specific videos from your watch history and searches from your search history. You tin also pause your lookout man and search history, or first fresh by clearing your watch and search history.

Scout history and search history

  • Remove individual videos from your lookout history: If you lot find recommendations on a field of study you lot're not interested in, try removing a video yous previously watched on that topic. It may reduce the risk of similar recommendations in the future.
  • Remove individual searches from your search history: If yous notice recommendations on a subject you're not interested in, try removing a previous search on that topic. It may reduce the chance of similar recommendations in the future.
  • Suspension history: Yous tin pause your lookout or search history when you lot don't want your watches or searches to influence futurity recommendations and search results. For example, when y'all're researching a field of study for a school project that you aren't personally interested in. Recollect to resume your history when you lot're done.
  • Clear history: If your unabridged scout and search histories are no longer relevant to your interests, you tin can clear your search and sentry histories. Tip: If you desire to employ your watch history to re-watch some videos, attempt calculation those videos to a playlist or "Scout Later" to detect them again.

How to amend your YouTube recommendations and search results

Tune your recommendations

On your smart Boob tube or game console

Remove recommended content from homepage

Yous can remove recommended videos past selecting "Not interested" on your homepage, or from your Habitation and Watch Next pages on mobile:

  1. Become to the recommended video you'd like to remove.
  2. Printing and hold the select push on your remote.
  3. Select Not interested.
  4. Select Tell us why to share why y'all'd like the video removed. You lot 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 aqueduct" feedback

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

Recommendations using your Google Activeness

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 almost controlling activity for your Google Account.

Choose topics in your recommendations

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

If y'all find a video that isn't related to the topic you lot've called on Home, allow us know by borer More and then Not <topic>.

Note: You may accept to update to the latest app version to run into these features.

Remove recommended content from homepage

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

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

You can likewise make sure that videos from specific channels don't show up in your recommendations. Select More so Don't recommend aqueduct.

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

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

  1. Go to My Action. You might need to sign in to your Google Business relationship.
  2. Observe Other Google activity in the left-hand Menu or under the My Activity banner.
  3. Select "YouTube 'Not interested' feedback", and 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 tin can view and control your activity at myactivity.google.com. Learn more most controlling activity for your Google Account.

Manage playlists and liked videos

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

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