There are several ways to influence these recommendations and search results. You can remove specific videos from your watch history and searches from your search history. You can also pause your watch and search history, or start fresh by clearing your watch and search history.
Watch history and search history
- Remove individual videos from your watch history: If you see recommendations that you're not interested in, removing a video that you watched may reduce the chance that you'll see similar recommendations.
- Remove individual searches from your search history: If you see recommendations that you're not interested in, removing a search that you entered may reduce the chance that you'll see similar recommendations.
- Pause history: You can pause your watch or search history when you don't want your watches or searches to influence future recommendations and search results. For example, when you're researching a subject for a school project that you aren't personally interested in. Remember to resume your history when you have finished.
- Clear history: If your recommendations aren't relevant to your interests, you can clear your search and watch histories. Tip: If you use your watch history to re-watch videos, add those videos to a playlist or 'Watch Later'.
How to improve your YouTube recommendations and search results
Tune your recommendations
Choose topics in your recommendations
You'll see topics on Home and on watch pages to help you refine your recommendations. These topics are chosen based on your existing, personalised suggestions. The topics are also based on content related to what you interact with. These topics are meant to help you find content that you want to watch faster.
If you find a video that isn't related to the topic that you've chosen on Home, let us know by tapping More 
Remove recommended content from Home page
You can remove recommended videos by selecting 'Not interested' on your homepage or from your Home and Watch Next pages on mobile:
- Go to the recommended video that you'd like to remove.
- Tap More
next to the video title.
- Select Not interested.
If you don't want to see videos from a specific channel, select More
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 'Not interested' and 'Don't recommend channel' feedback:
- Go to My Activity. You may need to sign in to your Google Account.
- In the left menu, find Other Google activity.
- Select 'YouTube "Not interested" feedback', then select Delete.
View our other articles for more info about watch history, search history and improving your recommendations.
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.
Manage playlists and liked videos
Your recommendations and search results are also based on videos that you've liked and playlists that you've created. You can remove liked videos and edit or delete playlists to influence your recommendations and search results.