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How to Clear YouTube Data on iPhone
YouTube is one of the most popular apps on iPhone. You can watch videos, listen to music, and explore content from creators all over the world. However, with daily use, you may accumulate a lot of data on the app, including search history and watch history. If you don’t clear this data, it can take up a lot of space on your iPhone and impact its performance.
In this article, we’ll show you how to clear YouTube data on iPhone, including search history, watch history, and offline content.
Clear search history on YouTube for iPhone
YouTube saves your search history to help you find related videos faster. If you want to clear your search history, follow these steps:
- Open the YouTube app on your iPhone
- Tap on your profile picture in the top right corner of the screen to access your account
- Select “Settings” from the dropdown menu
- Scroll down to “Clear search history” and tap on it
- Confirm that you want to clear your search history by tapping on “Clear history.”
Clear watch history on YouTube for iPhone
YouTube also saves your watch history to help recommend related videos to you. If you want to clear your watch history, follow these steps:
- Open the YouTube app on your iPhone
- Tap on your profile picture in the top right corner of the screen to access your account
- Select “Settings” from the dropdown menu
- Scroll down to “Clear watch history” and tap on it
- Confirm that you want to clear your watch history by tapping on “Clear history.”
Clear offline content on YouTube for iPhone
YouTube allows you to download videos to watch offline, which can take up a lot of space on your iPhone. If you want to clear offline content, follow these steps:
- Open the YouTube app on your iPhone
- Tap on your profile picture in the top right corner of the screen to access your account
- Select “Settings” from the dropdown menu
- Scroll down to “Offline videos” and tap on it
- Select the videos you want to delete or tap “Select all”
- Tap on the delete icon (trash can) in the bottom right corner of the screen and confirm that you want to delete the selected videos.
By following these steps, you can clear YouTube data on your iPhone and free up space on your device. With a cleaner app, you can enjoy faster browsing and smoother performance on YouTube.
Have you been regularly using YouTube on your iPhone and now want to delete the data stored on it?Are you looking for ways to remove all of the caches, cookies, history etc? Don’t worry –here we provide you with simple instructions that will help you clean the YouTube data from your iPhone.
First, launch the YouTube application from the home screen of your iPhone. Then, tap on the user account icon present at the top right corner of the interface. The user account page will open up; tap on the three dots menu icon available at the top right corner of the user profile page. From the menu options, select the ‘Settings’ option. It will open the settings page. Move further down to locate the ‘Clear Search History’ or ‘Clear watch history’ option. Tap on it to clear all the search and/or watch histories recorded in the YouTube application.
In order to clear all the other data cached in the YouTube app, such as cookies, website data and cached images and files, you need to remove the YouTube app from your iPhone and reinstall it. Go to the ‘Settings’ menu on your iPhone, and tap on its ‘General’ settings. On the General settings page, look for the ‘iPhone Storage’ option. Tap on it, and it will direct you to the list of the apps that are installed on your iPhone. Look up the YouTube app, tap on it and select the ‘Delete App’ option.
Once the YouTube app is removed from the phone, reinstall it from the App Store in the similar way as you had installed it before. Now, all the cached data and cookies stored by YouTube will be cleared up. However, if any of the search history or watch history is stored online in the user account then it will remain stored for future reference as YouTube takes the data security and privacy of its users very seriously.
We hope this helps you tidy up all the stored data of the YouTube app from your iPhone.