Remove recommended content from Home

You can remove recommended content that you're not interested in from your Home. Removing these videos can help improve your recommendations so that you see more videos that are relevant to your interests.

Note: This feature is only available if you are signed in to your account.
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Remove recommended content from homepage

You can remove recommended videos by selecting 'Not interested' on your homepage or from your Home and Watch Next pages on mobile:

  1. Press and hold the select button on your remote.
  2. Select Not interested.
  3. Select 'Tell us why' to share why you'd like the video removed. You can select I've already watched the video, I don't like the video or Don't recommend channel to customise your recommendations.

Clear 'Not interested' and 'Don't recommend channel' feedback

Your 'Not interested' and 'Don't recommend channel' feedback may be used to tune your recommendations. To clear all the 'Not interested' and 'Don't recommend channel' feedback that you've submitted, please follow the instructions below using your computer, Android, iPhone or iPad.

Recommendations using your Google activity

YouTube uses data from your Google Account activity to influence your recommendations.

You can view and control your activity at myactivity.google.com. Learn more about controlling activity for your Google Account.

The following recommended content can be removed from the homepage on your computer:

  • Videos
  • Channels
  • Sections
  • Playlists

If you turn off your YouTube watch history and have no significant prior watch history, YouTube features that rely on your watch history to give video recommendations, like recommendations on the YouTube homepage, are removed.

If you turn off your YouTube watch history and have no significant prior watch history, YouTube features that rely on your watch history to give video recommendations, like recommendations on the YouTube homepage, are removed.
 

You can remove recommended videos from your Home and Watch next pages on mobile.

Remove recommended videos

  1. Go to the recommended video that you'd like to remove.
  2. Tap More  next to the video title.
  3. Tap Not interested.
  4. Select Tell us why to share why you'd like the video removed. You can select I've already watched the video or I don't like the video to customise your recommendations.

Remove recommended channel

  1. Click More  next to the title.
  2. Select Don't recommend channel .

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