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. You tin can remove specific videos from your sentinel history and searches from your search history. You tin too pause your watch and search history, or start fresh by clearing your watch 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 lot previously watched on that topic. Information technology may reduce the chance of similar recommendations in the future.
  • Remove private searches from your search history: If you notice recommendations on a subject area you lot're not interested in, attempt removing a previous search on that topic. Information technology may reduce the gamble of similar recommendations in the future.
  • Pause history: You tin 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 lot aren't personally interested in. Remember to resume your history when you're done.
  • Clear history: If your entire watch and search histories are no longer relevant to your interests, y'all tin can clear your search and sentinel histories. Tip: If yous want to use your sentinel history to re-watch some videos, try calculation those videos to a playlist or "Watch Afterward" to find them again.

How to improve your YouTube recommendations and search results

Tune your recommendations

On your smart Television or game console

Remove recommended content from homepage

Y'all can remove recommended videos by selecting "Not interested" on your homepage, or from your Home and Watch Adjacent pages on mobile:

  1. Go to the recommended video you lot'd like to remove.
  2. Printing and agree the select button on your remote.
  3. Select Not interested.
  4. Select Tell u.s. why to share why you lot'd like the video removed. Yous can select I've already watched the video, I don't like the video, or Don't recommend channel to customize your recommendations.

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

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

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 almost controlling activity 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 assist you refine your recommendations. These topics are chosen based on your existing, personalized suggestions. The topics are besides based on content related to what you lot collaborate with. These topics are meant to help you detect content you want to scout faster.

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

Note: Yous 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 Watch Adjacent pages on mobile:

  1. Become to the recommended video you'd like to remove.
  2. Tap More next to the video title.
  3. TapNot interested.
  4. Tap Tell united states why to share why you'd like the video removed. Yous can select I've already watched the video or I don't like the video to customize your recommendations.

Yous can too make sure that videos from specific channels don't show up in your recommendations. Select More and and so Don't recommend channel.

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

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

  1. Become to My Action. You might need to sign in to your Google Account.
  2. Detect Other Google activity in the left-paw Bill of fare or under the My Activity banner.
  3. Select "YouTube 'Not 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 Activeness

YouTube uses information from your Google Account action to influence your recommendations.

You can view and control your activity at myactivity.google.com. Learn more almost controlling activity 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. Yous tin remove liked videos and edit or delete playlists to influence your recommendations and search results.

New ways to manage recommendations | Backstage at YouTube

Was this helpful?

How can we amend it?