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How to Pause Search History in YouTube on Android

How to Pause Search History in YouTube on Android

Posted on August 12, 2020 by Mel Hawthorne Leave a Comment

To help you quickly find videos again, YouTube stores a search history for all terms you’ve searched for on YouTube. This search history is account-based and is therefore shared by any device logged in to your account. The search history can be a useful feature, but you may not want YouTube to store a list of everything you’ve searched for on YouTube. Thankfully for those of you that don’t want this feature, you can disable the setting through the in-app settings.

You can access the in-app settings by tapping your profile picture icon in the top-right corner of the app.

Tap your profile picture icon in the top-right corner of the app to access the in-app settings.

To open the app settings, you next need to tap “Settings”, which will be the second to last option on the list.

Tap “Settings” to open YouTube’s in-app settings.

In the settings tap “History and privacy” to access the page with the YouTube search history settings.

Tap “History and privacy” to manage your YouTube search history settings.

In the history and privacy settings page, tap the “Pause search history” slider to pause the search history. The setting will be the fourth one down the page.

Tap the “Pause search history” slider to pause the search history.

You will need to confirm that you want to disable the search history function by tapping “Pause” in the confirmation popup.

Tap “Pause” in the confirmation popup to confirm that you want to pause your YouTube search history.

If you want to clear your YouTube search history, you can also do that from this page by tapping “Clear search history”, which will be the second option from the top. You will again need to tap through a confirmation warning.

Tap “Clear search history” then tap through the confirmation warning to clear your YouTube search history.

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