Why Clear YouTube History?
If you have a child about to melt down while waiting in line for something, you don’t want to end up with a series of SpongeBob videos crowding your feed. Before handing them the phone, pause the history and search recording, and you’ll have no worries. If you have a YouTube account for your business and want to keep the suggestions closely related to your niche, delete individual videos and searches that may affect your recommendations. Perhaps you want to prevent Google from finding out too much about you. Many people worry about Google obtaining identifying information. If this disturbs you, you can clear your history after each session to keep that information to a minimum. As time goes by, your interests may change, and the recommendations you receive are not as relevant as you would like. Deleting old videos and searches can remove those suggestions from your feed.
How to Delete YouTube History on Desktop
Deleting your YouTube history is quite easy. The platform allows you to delete individual search terms and watch history items and clear all watch history or custom history. Let’s check all the ways to delete YouTube watch and search history.
1. Delete Recent Search Item
2. Delete Recent Video From YouTube Watch History
3. Delete Old or Custom Search and Watch History Items
If you want to delete selected items or items within a selected period only from your YouTube history, use Google’s YouTube History page.
4. Delete All Watch History
Alternatively, open myactivity.google.com/product/youtube in a browser and delete your history from a custom range: click on the “Delete” button and select “Delete custom range” or “Delete all time.”
How to Delete YouTube History on Android and iPhone
1. Delete Recent Individual Searches
On iPhone, swipe left on the item and hit the “Delete” button.
2. Delete Recent Video From Watch History
3. Delete All Watch History
How to Pause YouTube History on Desktop
If you want YouTube to stop tracking your watch history temporarily, pause the watch history.
