How to clear history on youtube music

When you sign into YouTube with your Google account, YouTube keeps a record of everything you do on the site: What you watched, what you searched, even what you previewed. This allows the site to recommend new videos based on your tastes. But YouTube is a part of Google, raising questions about who has access to your data. If you want to clear your search history, YouTube is a good place to start.

Note that clearing this history means it’s only cleared from your device or browser; your data will still be stored on YouTube’s (or Google’s) servers.

How to clear YouTube history

1. Visit YouTube, and log in.
2. Click the three bars in the upper corner to open the YouTube menu.
3. Select History.
4. From here, you can either delete individual videos or your entire watch history.

Clearing both watch history and search history will remove recommended videos on the YouTube homepage. However, it will not clear favorited videos, or channels you subscribe to.

Clearing YouTube history—advanced options

If you want to do a more thorough sweep of your YouTube search history, try clearing history in the YouTube mobile apps, and on both your mobile and desktop browsers.

Clearing search history in the YouTube app

1. Open the YouTube app, and open Settings.
2. Tap the Library icon.
3. Select History Settings, then clear search history or your entire watch history.

Clearing YouTube search history on your computer

To delete your YouTube watch and search history on your laptop or desktop:

1. Open YouTube in your browser.
2. Open the Settings menu.
3. Click History.
4. Click Clear all Watch History and / or Clear all Search History.

Using Incognito Mode

In the future, you can avoid having to delete your YouTube history by watching videos in Incognito mode, which is available in both the mobile apps and as a browser viewing option. To select this from the YouTube app:

1. Tap your account.
2. Tap the Settings menu.
3. Turn on Incognito.

Note that you can also pause your watch history or search history instead. To do this in your desktop browser:

1. Open your browser and visit youtube.com.
2. Click History.
3. Click Pause Watch History or Pause Search History, and select Pause.

To pause watch history or search history in the iPhone app:

1. Open the YouTube app.
2. Tap Library.
3. Tap History.
4. Toggle on either Pause Watch History, Pause Search History, or both.

If you’re logged in to YouTube, click your profile picture to open the Settings menu and find the Your Data in YouTube option. From here, you’ll have a number of options to control what info YouTube tracks. Among those are:

• Manage your YouTube Watch History (to tell YouTube whether to remember what you watched, or to remember but then periodically auto-delete this watch history).
• Manage your YouTube Search History (to tell YouTube whether to remember your searches at all, or to remember them but then periodically auto-delete).

Your Data in YouTube also lets you make some Google-wide data choices, such as location history and ad settings.

Watch YouTube in Brave for better performance

To see YouTube without annoying ads, and get faster performance, consider downloading the Brave browser and watching YouTube in Brave instead. Brave automatically blocks trackers and YouTube ads via Brave Shields.

Do you not like the recommendations you receive on YouTube Music? Do you want to erase songs on your watch history to improve the suggestions on the app? In any case, you can delete your watch history on the app. Follow our quick guide below, and we’ll show you how to do so.

Tutorial

When you watch or play something on the YouTube Music app, it saves the song or video on your watch history. You’ll receive future song suggestions and video recommendations based on your recent activity and watched videos on your watch history.

Although the song recommendations can help you discover new music that you may like, the suggestions from the app might not suit your tastes. If you want to improve or reset future recommendations on YouTube Music, you can manage your watch history.

Removing songs or videos from your watch history on the app can help the app find more of the music you like. Here’s our guide about deleting your watch history on YouTube Music.

How to erase your watch history on YouTube Music

If you want to remove records of previously watched videos on YouTube Music, you can delete your watch history on the app. In this way, you can start anew on the app without deleting your account or creating a new one.

You can delete your watch history on YouTube Music whether you’re using the web or mobile app. In our tutorials below, we’ll show you how to do it from both.

On your phone:

1. Open YouTube Music from your home screen or app drawer and sign in to your account.
2. Tap “Settings” from the menu.
   
   
   
   
3. Head to your Privacy and Location options.
   
   
   
   
4. Select the “Manage watch history” option.
   
   
   
   
5. Tap the Delete option at the top of your watch history and select the option you prefer on the menu. You can choose to delete all the videos you watched for the day, choose a custom date period, or remove everything.
   
   
   
   

Alternatively, you can opt to delete videos from your watch history one by one. All you have to do is tap or click the “X” icon on the right of the item you want to remove.

On your computer:

1. Visit the YouTube Music web app and sign in to your account.
2. Click your profile icon on the top right side of the page and select “Settings” from the menu.
   
   
   
   
3. Head to the Privacy tab and select the “Manage watch history” option.
   
   
   
   
4. Click the Delete option above your watch history and select whether to delete by date, select a custom range, or choose to remove everything on the list.
   
   
   
   

You can also click the “X” icon beside the items on your watch history to remove them one by one. Please note that YouTube and YouTube Music share the same watch history, so be careful when deleting multiple videos from the list.

To wrap things up

Now that you know how to delete items from your watch history on YouTube Music, you can now remove songs that you don’t like from the list. In this way, you’ll get better song suggestions from the app in the future.

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