How to Clear YouTube Search History?

Clear YouTube Search History

In this article, I am going to show you that how to clear YouTube search history. YouTube is an online community that everyone shares their videos publicly and privately. Someone search some personal videos on YouTube and don’t want to see other. And someone watches private videos or anything relevant to it. When you search and watch anything on YouTube, all the information will be cached by YouTube.

So now be careful that don’t search & watch illegal things on YouTube. Because YouTube will cache all the watched & searched videos. When you searched or watched something on YouTube and you don’t like the be saved, follow the step by step guide on how to clear YouTube search history on Android devices.

Clear YouTube Search History on Android

It’s very easy and simple to do. First what you are going to do is open up YouTube with any web browser or YouTube app.If you don’t have YouTube app on your Android device click here to download YouTube application. Once you opened YouTube. On the home page of YouTube, you will see three dots sign at the upper right-hand side. Click on those dots then choose “Settings”.

YouTube History

YouTube History

Now, you have “General, connected TVs, Privacy, Notifications, Captions, and About”. Tap on the “Privacy”.

 

YouTube Privacy

YouTube Privacy

When you clicked on privacy, you will see “Clear watch history and Clear search history”. Click on the second option, clear search history. All the content that you have searched before will be removed from your device.

Clear Search History

Clear Search History

How to Pause Search History on Android?

You can pause search history if you would like. It means that when you enable pause history on Android, anything you search will not be saved or cached. To disable or enable “Pause search history”, simply follow the above instructions then simply click on “Pause search history“. Now search anything that you want.

Pause Search History

Pause Search History

Clear YouTube Search History on PC

You can also clear search history from your “PC”. Sign into your YouTube account then click on “History”.

YouTube Search History

YouTube Search History

Again you will see two options, click search history. From here as well you can Pause and clear YouTube search history.

Search History on PC

Search History on PC

Conclusion

I hope that you have understood something from this step by step guide. If you have any kind of question about this topic or YouTube, feel free to ask us below this post and we will answer it as soon as possible. Thanks for being with us.

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Mukhtar Jafari is the founder and CEO of wikigain.com. He is CISCO CCENT & CCNA Certified and has got his diploma in IT Networking from North Metro TAFE PERTH. He is currently working as a Help Desk Technician at DEEPTECH Perth Western Australia. In addition, he loves helping other tech enthusiasts so he is working part-time on wikigain.com. He shares his experience through this website for IT beginners.

One Comment

  1. blankMayur Sharma Reply

    Here’s how it’s done: https://www.mobigyaan.com/how-to-delete-youtube-search-history-on-android

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