YouTube no longer suggests videos if your ‘watch history’ is turned off | TechCrunch

YouTube announced Tuesday that its latest replace disables all its video suggestions for customers who’ve their watch historical past turned off, fixing an arguably annoying drawback for individuals who could not need to be bothered by a sea of prompt movies.

YouTube viewers are used to having a house feed stuffed with thumbnails because the video-sharing platform exhibits suggestions based mostly on watch historical past settings. Nonetheless, because of the newest replace, customers can flip off their watch historical past and expertise an easier homepage that feels much less cluttered and chaotic. As a substitute, there’ll simply be the search bar and the left-hand information menu with shortcuts to Subscriptions, Shorts and Library.

“We’re launching this new expertise to make it extra clear which YouTube options depend on watch historical past to offer video suggestions and make it extra streamlined for these of you preferring to go looking slightly than browse suggestions,” Google writes in right now’s put up.

The corporate added that customers will see these adjustments over the following few months.

In different YouTube information, some iOS customers are at present complaining about buffering points whereas watching reside content material on YouTube TV and YouTube Primetime Channels. Earlier right now, YouTube confirmed the problem and stated it was engaged on an answer. A couple of hours later, there has but to be an replace on whether or not this was fastened.

These affected by the buffering reported that content material retains freezing on their iOS units (each iPhone and iPad). It seems that this isn’t a difficulty when viewers watch the identical content material on Android units, TVs and different units.