YouTube is a platform for watching a variety of videos in different categories from cat videos to tutorials. YouTube’s algorithm works by keeping a record of your viewing history to enhance your recommendations and provide closely related content.

While this is a good experience, there may be occasions when you do not want this algorithm to run on your watch history, perhaps due to privacy, or you just want a fresh recommendation from new interests.

To control your privacy on recommendations, you can pause or clear your history to affect the quality of recommendations. In this guide, we'll walk you through the steps to pause and delete your YouTube watch history.