Manage your recommendations and search results

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

There are several ways to influence these recommendations and search results. You tin remove specific videos from your watch history and searches from your search history. You can also pause your watch and search history, or commencement fresh past clearing your scout and search history.

Watch history and search history

  • Remove private videos from your sentinel history: If you find recommendations on a subject you're non interested in, try removing a video you lot previously watched on that topic. It may reduce the take chances of like recommendations in the future.
  • Remove individual searches from your search history: If yous detect recommendations on a subject you're non interested in, try removing a previous search on that topic. Information technology may reduce the chance of similar recommendations in the future.
  • Pause history: You can pause your watch or search history when you don't desire your watches or searches to influence futurity recommendations and search results. For case, when you're researching a subject for a schoolhouse projection that you aren't personally interested in. Remember to resume your history when yous're done.
  • Clear history: If your entire lookout and search histories are no longer relevant to your interests, you can articulate your search and sentinel histories. Tip: If you want to use your watch history to re-watch some videos, try adding those videos to a playlist or "Watch Later" to observe them again.

How to better 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 "Not interested" on your homepage, or from your Home and Watch Next pages on mobile:

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

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

Your "Non Interested" and "Don't recommend aqueduct" feedback may be used to tune your recommendations. To clear all the "Not 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 Business relationship action to influence your recommendations.
Yous can view and control your activeness at myactivity.google.com. Learn more well-nigh decision-making activity for your Google Account.

Choose topics in your recommendations

If yous're signed in, you'll detect topics on Dwelling house and on sentry 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 y'all interact with. These topics are meant to help you observe content you desire to watch faster.

If you find a video that isn't related to the topic you've called on Domicile, let us know past tapping More so Not <topic>.

Notation: You may take to update to the latest app version to see these features.

Remove recommended content from homepage

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

  1. Get to the recommended video y'all'd similar to remove.
  2. Tap More than next to the video title.
  3. TapNon interested.
  4. Tap Tell us why to share why you'd similar the video removed. Yous tin can select I've already watched the video or I don't like the video to customize your recommendations.

Y'all can also brand sure that videos from specific channels don't bear witness up in your recommendations. Select More than and so Don't recommend aqueduct.

Articulate "Not 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 the "Not interested" and "Don't recommend channel" feedback you've submitted:

  1. Go to My Activity. You might demand to sign in to your Google Account.
  2. Find Other Google activity in the left-paw Menu or nether the My Activity imprint.
  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 Business relationship action to influence your recommendations.

Yous tin view and control your activeness at myactivity.google.com. Learn more about decision-making 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 you've created. You tin can remove liked videos and edit or delete playlists to influence your recommendations and search results.

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