How to Delete Your YouTube Watch History (and Search History)

[learninmypc]

YouTube remembers every video you’ve ever watched, assuming you’re signed in with your Google account. YouTube uses this history for recommendations, and even encourages you to re-watch old videos. Here’s how to clean up your watch history—or stop collecting it.

The watch and search histories are only stored if you’re signed into YouTube with your Google account while watching. FULL ARTICLE

 

[mailpup]

From my experience YouTube seems to forget after year or so. Maybe it remembers in some other way but videos seem to lose the "Watched" notation and the red bar after awhile.

 

[learninmypc]

Yeah, I checked it out & found nothing also. Hmmm

 

[Netfox]

But it's very easy to clear your history in YouTube. What is the sense of your separate article then? As for me it's very convenient to see only new videos and have seen one checked like seen.

 

[GaryMove]

As easy as pie:
Select Clear all watch history to delete your entire history.