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Clear or disable YouTube watch history

Article updated on January 24, 2021

Among the important features of YouTube, there is one that may be causing you problems. Indeed, when you go to YouTube while logged into your account, you have access to the entire history of the videos you have watched. While this can be very useful for finding a video that particularly struck you, it can also cause some problems.

Maybe you want to clear your history to make certain compromising videos disappear or perhaps you simply don't want to see all the episodes of Fireman Sam that you put on your children's iPad to get a few moments of peace!

Well, know that it is possible and that it is not complicated at all!

Clear or disable YouTube watch history

Indeed, even though navigating YouTube has become increasingly complicated over the years, There are, however, some very practical options.…and in particular concerning the history of videos viewed.

To do this, go to YouTube and log in to your account.

In the left bar of YouTube, click on “ History"

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You will arrive at a page listing all the latest videos you have watched on the platform.

And there, miracle, in the right menu, you will discover a whole bunch of options to manage your history.

And this is where you will discover two very interesting buttons: the first allows you toclear all watched video history and the second allows to deactivate history.

Depending on your needs, you can then click on one, the other or even both!

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Once this cleaning is done, you can also clean your search history. Well yes, there can also be compromising things there.

So click on “Search History” and you will get two options quite similar to those of the watched video history since you can clear all search history and pause search history.

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Be aware, however, that if you wish to opt for less radical solutions, it is also possible to delete individually from the history of each of your search queries or each of your viewed videos by clicking on the cross in the history.

And there you have it, these very simple manipulations will allow you to keep an impeccable history on YouTube!

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