Manage your recommendations and search results

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

There are several means to influence these recommendations and search results. You can remove specific videos from your watch history and searches from your search history. You can besides pause your watch and search history, or starting time fresh past clearing your spotter and search history.

Lookout man history and search history

  • Remove private videos from your spotter history: If you detect recommendations on a discipline yous're not interested in, effort removing a video yous previously watched on that topic. It may reduce the gamble of similar recommendations in the future.
  • Remove private searches from your search history: If you notice recommendations on a discipline you're not interested in, try removing a previous search on that topic. It may reduce the chance of similar recommendations in the future.
  • Pause history: You can pause your sentinel or search history when yous don't desire your watches or searches to influence future recommendations and search results. For example, when you'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, yous can articulate your search and watch histories. Tip: If y'all want to utilise your watch history to re-sentinel some videos, try adding those videos to a playlist or "Watch Later" to find them again.

How to improve your YouTube recommendations and search results

Tune your recommendations

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Remove recommended content from homepage

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

  1. Go to the recommended video y'all'd similar to remove.
  2. Press and hold the select push on your remote.
  3. Select Non interested.
  4. Select Tell us why to share why you'd similar the video removed. You can 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 channel" feedback may be used to tune your recommendations. To articulate all the "Non interested" and "Don't recommend aqueduct" feedback you've submitted, delight follow the instructions below using your computer, Android, or iPhone or iPad.

Recommendations using your Google Action

YouTube uses information from your Google Business relationship action to influence your recommendations.
You lot tin can view and command your action at myactivity.google.com. Learn more most controlling activity for your Google Account.

Choose topics in your recommendations

If y'all're signed in, you'll observe topics on Home and on lookout man 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 aid y'all notice content you want to scout faster.

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

Note: You lot may have to update to the latest app version to meet these features.

Remove recommended content from homepage

To remove recommended videos from your Dwelling house and Watch Next pages on mobile:

  1. Get 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 you'd like the video removed. You can select I've already watched the video or I don't like the video to customize your recommendations.

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

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

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

  1. Go to My Activity. You might need to sign in to your Google Account.
  2. Find Other Google activity in the left-hand Menu or nether the My Activity banner.
  3. Select "YouTube 'Not interested' feedback", then select Delete.

View our other manufactures for more info about scout history, search history, and improving your recommendations.

Recommendations using your Google Activity

YouTube uses data from your Google Business relationship activity to influence your recommendations.

You tin view and control your activity at myactivity.google.com. Learn more than about controlling activity for your Google Account.

Manage playlists and liked videos

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

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