Manage your recommendations & search results

Tune your recommendations

One of the ways you can influence your recommendations is by tuning them to be more relevant to you and your interests. When you give us feedback, like when a video on your Home feed isn’t interesting to you, it helps us improve your YouTube experience in the future.

Mark content as “Not interested”

There are several ways to influence your YouTube recommendations and search results, including letting us know when certain content might not be of interest to you, such as a video or a channel.

1. Click Morenext to the title of the video, playlist, or section on Home.
2. Click Not interested.
3. If it’s a video, click Tell us whyto share why you’re not interested. You can select I’ve already watched the videoor I don’t like the videoto further customize your recommendations.

Adjust channel recommendations

1. On certain pages, such as your Home and Watch Next pages, find a video from a channel that you don’t want recommended to you.
2. Click Morenext to the video title.
3. Select Don't recommend channel.

Clear “Not interested” & “Don’t recommend channel” feedback

If you don’t want your “Not interested” and “Don’t recommend channel” feedback to influence your recommendations, you can clear it.

1. Go to My Activity .You might need to sign in to your Google Account.
2. Find Other Google activityin the left-hand menu or under the My Activity banner.
3. Select YouTube 'Not interested' feedback, then select Delete.

See fewer Shorts

On certain pages, such as your Home and Watch Next pages, you may also be recommended Shorts to watch. You can choose to see fewer of these.

1. On the YouTube app, go to your Home feed.
2. Scroll to a grid of Shorts.
3. At the top of the grid, tap More.
4. Tap Show fewer Shorts.

Clear “Show fewer Shorts“ response

If you opted to be shown fewer Shorts, you can clear this decision in My Activity.

1. Go to My Activity .
2. Find and select Other activityin the left-hand menu or under the My Activity banner.
3. Under “Show fewer Shorts,” select Delete.

Manage recommendations from your Google Activity

YouTube may also use data from your Google Account activity to influence your recommendations, search results, in-app notifications, and suggested videos in other places.

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

Manage liked videos

Your recommendations and search results are also based on videos that you’ve liked. You can like, dislike, and remove liked videos to influence your recommendations and search results.

Explore recommended topics

If you only want to see recommended content about a specific subject, explore topics on the Home and watch pages. Topics are based on your existing, personalized suggestions and on content related to what you interact with. These topics are meant to help you find content you want to watch faster. For example, a topic called “Learning” may have educational videos.

If you find a video that isn’t related to the topic you’ve chosen on Home, let us know by tapping Morebeside the video Not <topic>.