In the event that you are watching the video in YouTube in the browser or in the application on your smartphone by entering your account, the search history and views are automatically saved in the account. If you wish, you can delete your view history and search in YouTube, make it very simple. It is also possible to automatically clean or disable the saving of this data.
In this instruction detailed how to clear the history of your actions in YouTube on both the computer in the browser and on the phone (in the browser or application). Consider that the story will be removed everywhere: for example, you delete it on your computer, and if the same account is used on the phone, it will also disappear on it.
- How to delete search history and views on YouTube on the phone
- Cleaning YouTube history on your computer or laptop
- Video instruction
How to delete search history and YouTube views on the phone
As a rule, to view the video on YouTube on smartphones, the official application uses, respectively, first show the cleaning of the story in it, and then through a mobile browser.
- In the Youtube application, click on the icon of your account on the right above.
- In the window that opens, click "Settings".
- Select "History and Privacy".
- Here you will find the items "Clean the history of viewing" and "Clean the search history."
On the same page of the settings, you can enable two parameters - "Do not write a view history" and "Suspend Search History" if you do not want to record history in the future.
If your phone has no official application installed on your phone, then you can clear the Youtube history using a simple browser:
- Through the browser on the phone, go to the youtube.com website, if necessary, enter your login and password
- Click on the icon of your account on the right above, and then open the "Settings".
- Use the parameters in the "History and Privacy" section to delete the search history and views and disabling Youtube history if necessary.
How to clear the history of YouTube on a computer
YouTube's history deletion steps on the computer will be almost the same as in the case of actions on the phone, however, the menu is somewhat different:
- Go to the YouTube.com website under your account.
- Click the icon of your profile in the upper right corner of the page and select "Personal data on YouTube".
- In the "YouTube Settings" section, you will see two sections - "YouTube's View History" and "YouTube Search History". Suppose we need to delete your view history. Click "Management of watching history".
- On the next page you can: Disable YouTube View History Record, delete individual items from the history or by clicking on the menu on the left item "Delete actions for a specific period" delete history for all time (i.e. completely). If necessary, here you can configure the automatic removal of Youtube history.
- Similarly deletes the search history in YouTube.
Video instruction
As you can see, delete or disable the history record of the viewers and the search for YouTube is a very simple task and problems with this should not.