How to View and Manage Your YouTube History on Phone

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To view your YouTube history on your phone, you'll need to access your YouTube app. This is where you can see a record of the videos you've watched, liked, or saved for later.

Open the YouTube app on your phone and tap the profile picture or account icon in the top right corner. From there, you can select "History" to view your watched videos.

Accessing YouTube History

To access your YouTube history on your phone, you can use the YouTube app. Open the YouTube app on your iPhone, iPad, or Android phone and select the You tab at the bottom.

You can view your entire watch history sorted by Today, Yesterday, and then the remaining dates by tapping View all. This will show you a list of videos you've watched, making it easy to revisit your favorite clips.

To view a specific date's history, you can use the Calendar icon, which is available when you tap on "Manage all history". Press the Calendar icon and enter the date you're interested in, then click "Apply" to see the history older than the selected date.

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You can also manage your YouTube search history by tapping the search icon in the upper-right corner of the screen. This will show you your search history, and you can swipe left on an individual search to delete it.

To pause or delete your search history, tap your account icon, then tap Settings, and finally tap History & privacy. Swipe the Pause search history button to the right to pause your search history, or tap Clear search history to delete it entirely.

Here's a quick summary of how to manage your YouTube history:

Manage YouTube Search History

Managing your YouTube search history is a breeze on your mobile device. You can view your search history by tapping the search icon in the upper-right corner.

To remove an individual search, swipe left on the search query and tap Delete on iOS or tap and hold on the query and tap Remove on the pop-up window on Android.

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If you want to pause your search history, tap your account icon, then tap Settings, and navigate to History & privacy. Swipe the Pause search history button to the right.

To delete your search history, tap your account icon, then tap Settings, and tap History & privacy. Finally, tap Clear search history.

You can also pause your watch history by swiping the Pause watch history button to the right in the History & privacy settings.

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