You can manage your search history by deleting individual searches or clearing or pausing search history. Learn more about your data in YouTube and managing your YouTube activity.
Notes:
- Search entries you delete will no longer influence your recommendations.
- After clearing your search history, your past searches won’t show as suggestions in the search box.
- While your search history is paused, searches you enter won’t be saved in your search history.
- If you browse in Incognito mode, your search history won’t be saved. Learn more about Incognito mode.
Pause search history
- Sign in to the YouTube app.
- Tap your profile picture
.
- Tap Settings
Manage all history.
- Tap the Controls tab.
- Unselect "Include your searches on YouTube."
.Delete search history
- Sign in to the YouTube app.
- Tap your profile photo
- Tap Settings
- Select one of the following:
- Delete: Tap
beside a search to delete it. To delete more than one search from your history at a time, tap DELETE.
- Search: Tap
to look for specific searches.
- Calendar: Tap
to browse your history in a specific date range.
- Delete: Tap
Note: Using DELETE to delete your search history will also delete your watch history from the selected time frame.