When you have young children at home using YouTube on your TV or smart desk, you may have an unrelated search history in the app. Sometimes you may need to hide inappropriate search results from others in the YouTube app. You can use the search bar menu or go into settings to clear your search history. Here’s how you can clear your YouTube search history on phone and web.
YouTube provides all the tools to manage your data from the app. For starters, you can even clear your YouTube watch history from the app. Here’s how to do it.
Delete YouTube search history from the app
YouTube uses a similar interface on both iPhone and Android. In the screenshot below, we’ll be using the YouTube for Android app. You can follow the same steps on the YouTube iOS app and clear your search history.
From the Search History Menu
Note: This trick is only available on the YouTube Android app. It won’t work on the YouTube iOS app.
Step 1: Open the YouTube app on your phone.
Step 2: Tap the magnifying glass at the top and check out the entire search history in chronological order.
Step 3: Long press on the search result you want to delete and confirm your decision from the pop-up menu.
Manually deleting every search result is tedious and may not be a good idea. If you want to clear your entire YouTube search history at once, you can easily do that from YouTube settings.
Using the Settings Menu in the YouTube App
Step 1: Launch the YouTube app on your phone and tap on the circular account image in the top right corner.
Step 2: Tap Settings.
Step 3: Select the History and privacy menu.
Step 4: Click Clear search history and confirm the same.
That will delete your YouTube search history from all YouTube apps on all devices. Additionally, this will reset all video recommendations, but you may still be affected by activity on other Google products.
Remove YouTube Search History from Web App
Your Google account on the web offers more options for managing search history. Here’s how you can use it and clear your YouTube search history.
Step 1: Open your Google account in a web browser.
Step 2: Sign in with your Google ID and password.
Step 3: Select Data and Privacy from the left sidebar.
Step 4: Scroll down to History Settings and select YouTube History.
Step 5: Select Manage history.
Step 6: You can check your YouTube watch history and search history.
Step 7: Select the X next to the search term and confirm your decision.
You can also choose to clear your YouTube search and watch history.
Pause YouTube Search History
If you want to pause your YouTube search history for a few days, you can easily do so from your YouTube settings. We use this feature when few people go on vacation and browse YouTube all the time.
YouTube App for Android and iPhone
Step 1: Open the settings in the YouTube app on your phone (check the screenshot in the first section).
Step 2: Select the History and Privacy menu. Turn on the Pause search history toggle and YouTube will no longer save your search history.
YouTube on the web
You can also turn off your YouTube search history from your Google account.
Step 1: Go to your Google account on the web and go to the Data and Privacy menu (refer to the screenshot above).
Step 2: Select the YouTube History menu and turn off the ‘Include your YouTube searches’ option.
Step 3: Select the Pause button from the pop-up menu to confirm your decision.
Automatically delete YouTube history
If you don’t want to clear your YouTube search history all the time, you can automate the process from your Google account. This is the way.
Step 1: Open the Data and Privacy menu in your Google account.
Step 2: Select YouTube History.
Step 3: Click Choose an auto-delete option.
Step 4: Click the radio button next to the ‘Automatically remove older activity’ option.
Step 5: Choose a term – 3 months, 18 months and 36 months.
Step 6: Confirm your decision to automatically delete your YouTube activities.
Keep in mind that this move will automatically delete both YouTube watch and search history from your account.
Manage YouTube search history
Google designed YouTube’s algorithms to recommend videos based on your search and viewing history. When you delete your search history from your YouTube account, you may notice some irrelevant video recommendations on the homepage feed. Don’t be surprised when you start seeing unnecessary videos in your feed.
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