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How to Pause Watch History in YouTube for Android

How to Pause Watch History in YouTube for Android

Posted on August 11, 2020 by Mel Hawthorne Leave a Comment

Your watch history on YouTube stores a list of all videos that you’ve watched. Your watch history is used to keep track of which videos you have watched, giving you a helpful indicator as to if you’ve previously watched a video. This data is also used to help inform the videos that YouTube suggests to you.

The YouTube service uses the videos you watch to identify a list of interests, from general topics to channels. By using the list of specific videos that you’ve watched it can further target recommendations to the specific types of content you watch and exclude videos you’ve already seen. If you don’t want YouTube to monitor the videos that you’re watching, you can disable the watch history feature. It will, however, make YouTube more likely to suggest videos that you’ve already seen.

To change your watch history settings in YouTube on Android, you need to configure the in-app settings. To do so, you first need to tap on your profile picture icon in the top-right corner of the app.

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

To open the in-app settings themselves, tap “Settings”, which will be second from the bottom of the list.

Tap “Settings” to open YouTube’s settings.

In the settings, tap “History and privacy”, which will be the fifth setting down.

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

To pause your watch history, tap the “Pause watch history” slider to the on position.

Tap the “Pause watch history” slider, the third option from the top.

To disable the watch history, you’ll need to tap “Pause” in the confirmation box that appears.

A confirmation popup will appear, tap “Pause” to complete the process, and pause your watch history.

If you want to clear your watch history too, you can tap the top option on this page, “Clear watch history”. You will also have to tap through a confirmation warning to complete this action.

To clear your watch history, tap “Clear watch history” in the same menu, then tap through the confirmation screen.

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