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Many app homepages have gotten incredibly busy, filled with suggestions and ads, many based on your previous searches or stuff you\u2019ve read \/ written \/ watched in the past. YouTube is certainly no exception \u2014 in fact, it\u2019s one of the worst offenders \u2014 but recently, Google\u2019s video service announced<\/a> that users now have a choice. If you turn your watch history off and \u201chave no significant prior watch history,\u201d all that confusion will disappear, and your homepage will only show the search bar and the Shorts, Subscriptions, and Library buttons. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n In other words, you\u2019ll have a clean, simple, easy-on-the-eyes YouTube page.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The change in the home feed is being slowly rolled out over the next few months, but it doesn\u2019t hurt to be ready for it. The process is nearly identical for both the web version and mobile versions of YouTube. Here\u2019s how. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n If you really want to clean up your YouTube page, you do need to delete that history \u2014 because otherwise, you\u2019ll still be getting recommendations based on everything you watched before you hit that Pause button.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n If you didn\u2019t take advantage of the pop-up\u2019s Delete old activity<\/strong> link, you can still go back and delete your history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n There is a good chance that, despite all this, you would still not see much of a change in your recommendations. (I was certainly still seeing a lot of recommendations.) According to Google, the changes in YouTube are only being rolled out over the next few months, so it may be a while before you see a change in your YouTube homepage. But at least you\u2019ll be ready.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n