How To Pause Your Watch History On YouTube Music

Do you want to prevent YouTube Music from recording music you play in the app’s watch history? Or do you want to stop videos that you play in the future to affect the recommendations you receive on the app? In any case, you can pause your watch history on YouTube Music. In our quick guide below, we’ll show you how to do so.

When you watch a video or play a song on YouTube Music, the app will save it on your watch history. In this way, you can easily view your history to check songs you missed on adding to one of your playlists.

Aside from that, your watch history also affects the recommendations you receive on the app. Your personalized stations on the Home tab also depend on the previous videos you watched.

However, we understand that there are situations where you don’t want the app to note down your recently watched videos. You might also want to improve the recommendations you receive from YouTube Music.

Thankfully, you can pause your watch history on the app whenever you want. Here’s our quick guide below to help you toggle the feature.

How to temporarily pause your watch history on YouTube Music

If you want to stop YouTube Music from saving the song you play on your watch history, you can pause your watch history in the meantime. In this way, exploring new music won’t affect the recommendations you receive on the app.

You can manage your watch history on YouTube Music whether you’re on your phone or computer. Check our tutorials below and we’ll teach you how to do so.

On your phone:

1. Launch the YouTube Music app on your device and sign in to your account.
2. Tap your profile icon on the top right corner of the app and select “Settings” from the menu.
   
   
3. Head to your Privacy & Location settings.
   
   
4. Toggle the “Pause watch history” option.
   
   

That’s how you pause your watch history from the YouTube Music app for Android. Videos you watch in the future won’t affect the recommendations or song suggestions you receive on the app.

On your computer:

1. Visit the YouTube Music web client and sign in to your account.
2. Click your profile icon on the top right corner and select Settings from the menu.
   
   
3. Head to the Privacy tab and toggle the “Pause watch history” option.
   
   

Please note that YouTube Music and YouTube accounts share the same watch history settings. Turning off your watch history on one of them also disables it for the other.

To wrap things up

Now that you know how to pause your watch history on YouTube Music, you can go ahead and play music without worrying about your future recommendations on the app. When you pause your watch history, you might not see some personalized stations from your Home tab.

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