YouTube Autoplay and Hidden Settings Took Over the App

“Any extension would just be using the built-in YouTube search. It might be easier to download your watch history from Google Takeout”

“On v0.32 I was on a site with a lot of video redirecting me to other sites but it would be blocked automatically then pause the video and ask if I want to go else where. I would like that back and better with an option to never allow redirects because it disappeared with follow updates. I included an image of the thing I am talking about, hope it helps. Screenshot 2026 09 04 00 50 35 203 dev.sk2andy.materialbrowser edit.jpg”

“I wanted to find a very old video i probably watched a year ago but the search bar of the watch history is just so bad, not giving me every video or such, is there any browser extension that can help me search or put a specific date to try to find said video ive watched on my acc? submitted by /u/LimaIzayoi [link] [comments]”

“Same, I can play a video for example at work. Gotta pause the video for a while, come back, click play and it just rewinds sometimes couple seconds, sometimes minutes, sometimes half the fuckin' video. No idea what's the cause, cus' it's been like that for me ever since I can remember and it can piss me the fuck off sometimes when it happens multiple times on a single video”

“I used to uncheck the "loop" flag on the context menu on shorts to disable it on shorts, now it's gone, and it's frustrating: anyone got any idea how to get it back in a way or another? Also: I used to search stuff and then sort by data, to get the latest first, now that filter is gone, any idea to get it back or some workaround? Thanks. submitted by /u/JaPanAt [link] [comments]”

“Okay so it seems like for some long-form content, YouTube keeps track of how long I've watched a video and will resume where I left off for up to months later. Then for some videos I've watched recently, this feature doesn't exist. But basically my main gripe boils down to this: Why can't I watch videos with the same keyword(s) but filtering out the videos I've already watched? Clearly there is some functionality to this since we have the library/history feature. But is there”

“you connect with your phone to the tv you select videos on your phone and it plays on the tv.. its simple right? why tf does it disconnect now everytime you click on the next video? i have to press on the cast icon everytime and select my tv like a caveman. and its not like its bugged or losing connection it seems like its intentional with the new cast icon and stuff. how do they even come up with this stuff? submitted by /u/Late-Mud-2981 [link] [comments]”

“Been starting to notice this for a few days, but whenever I put today or this week (only tested those two), I notice a couple videos from a year ago, months ago, or many years ago sneak into the results for some reason. Now, I do use uBlock Origin, but I don't know if that would be the cause of this glitch. submitted by /u/levikings04 [link] [comments]”

“just noticed today that they removed the duration in home but you can still see it in subscription. it's small but infuriating when you searching something to play while you eat. submitted by /u/GanGanJoker [link] [comments]”

“Hello. When i got this dumb update "new feature" I noticed that when playing a video from a companion device (Android Phone YouTube App) at the end of the video another one would autoplay even though i turned off Autoplay on both my phone app and my TV YouTube app. So annoying! I found the solution to fix this! I grabbed some screenshots and shared them in an album for you all: YouTube Companion App Autoplay fix How to Turn Off Autoplay While Casting Connect your phone to your TV or ca”

“Remove the video and it should disappear. I hate that feature as I like to add short to other playlists (mostly to watch the long ones on 2x).”

“Recently the YT app on my Pixel started doing this. I didn't change anything, but every morning when I first open the app it asks me "Who's watching?", even though there are no other accounts logged in. How do I turn this off? submitted by /u/ResiogMarek [link] [comments]”

“I recently noticed this and it actually ruins the whole app for me. submitted by /u/Icy-Bat6787 [link] [comments]”

“You can do this by clicking the video under the title of a short the poster put there. If it’s a short and you scroll, you get that. Or a playlist”

“I've been having issues with shows that have multiple cours and seasons. When watching the second season of Date a Live the plugin keeps marking the OVA in between seasons (Date A Live: Date to Date) as watched (and rewatched) instead of updating the episodes from S2. Logs: [2026 08 30 09:21:58.441 +02:00] [INF] [36] jellyfin ani sync.UpdateProviderStatus: (AniList) Found matching series: Date A Live [2026 08 30 09:21:58.441 +02:00] [INF] [36] jellyfin ani sync.UpdateProviderStatus: (AniList) At”

You are a life saver, this fixed it for me, changed from "English - Australia" to "English - English" and sorting options are back. I think the Australian English might have been…

“Not only does YT now lie to creators about their view counts and their top views videos, but they seem to have gotten rid of the option to turn off Playback in settings on some phones(seems to actually be a majority of phones in general). Apparently there are Engaged views, and unengaged views or something of that sort. Engaged views are as you'd expect, someone clicked on a video to watch it, and are giving that video their view and attention. But now, they have unengaged views, which don&#”

“Originally, I saved by opening the additional settings window, but with the addition of a save check box, it's inconvenient to watch videos. Is there a way to make this invisible or delete it? Why was it made? submitted by /u/Otherwise_Spend_4617 [link] [comments]”

“Idk where to put this mods but what happened to the youtube full list of subscribed channels on the YouTube mobile app I just looked at few hours ago and it doesn’t show the subscribers icon on the YouTube mobile app it could be just a bug and might come back few days or hours later but I don’t know if other people are having this problem”

“Idk where to put this mods but what happened to the youtube full list of subscribed channels on the YouTube mobile app I just looked at few hours ago and it doesn’t show the subscribers icon on the YouTube mobile app it could be just a bug and might come back few days or hours later but I don’t know if other people are having this problem”

“Like, I have to delete YouTube and redownload to watch it, and then the like with the thumbs up instead of the heart is back, and then once I close out YouTube or it just does it by itself cause I’m on something else, that video is gone, and it takes a few days for it to be back, if it even gets back I see the notification on the subscriber page, and then, it’s almost like a false alarm, and it’s not there submitted by /u/Responsible_Bar3957 [link] [comments]”

“You read that right, according to a video youtuber Astralspiff made, all if not most videos are now getting a 35% boost to their viewing statistics as now when that video gets autoplayed for half a second it gets counted as a view. This does not effect monetization, youtubers are getting the exact same pay. Now though to see how many people are actually watching your video, you have to go to "engaged views", which is actually just how many people watched past the first frame of your vi”

“I don't have either of those functions now lol. They changed it so I have to click on the three dots and select "remove video from the playlist". Swiping to delete works in other playlists”

“Under my watch later folder... It's been gone for maybe 2 months. I tried the useless slop that someone in support suggested, and nada. (Uninstall, update, sign out, etc) I have almost 700 videos in my folder, let's add that back like NOW. I'm paying for premium, why are QOL features being removed? submitted by /u/iiPsychotic [link] [comments]”

“I was going to remove my watched videos from my playlist and it seems YouTube has removed the button to remove all watched videos. Anyone know why they did this? submitted by /u/jellowd2 [link] [comments]”

“Describe your suggested feature Problem When the video player is locked to prevent accidental touches, there is currently no way to check the video's current playback position or total time without unlocking the player first. Solution Show a read only progress bar and time indicator when tapping the screen in lock mode. It should disappear automatically after a brief delay (or along with the unlock button overlay) while keeping all control touches disabled. Other details No response Acknowledgem”

“New UI update and I can’t seem to find the watch history anywhere on iPhone, am I the only one having this issue? submitted by /u/AncientArtifacts9 [link] [comments]”

“I have watch history turned off on Youtube on my PC but when I open an incognito tab, the mainpage of Youtube still shows me recommended videos based on what I previously watched without having my account logged in the incognito tab. Is there a way to have videos on the main page of Youtube in incognito mode to not show videos related to previous things I've searched or watched on Youtube? submitted by /u/yoiso [link] [comments]”

“When watching episodes on TV, auto tracking is not working. Expectation is that hitting next episode or allowing player to go to next episode automatically should mark that episode as watched. As an additional feature, we should add a settings item that when enabled, allows clicking on any episode to mark the previous episodes as watched.”

“For example, if I search Pewdiepie, can I set the year of search to 2014 and get results for the 'latest' videos released up to 2014 for 'Pewdiepie'? submitted by /u/prrr147 [link] [comments]”

“It's been like this for 3 weeks now. WORST change ever. I have like 25 playlists curated for all sorts of information T_T now I have to scroll all the way back every time to go there.”

“My YouTube account recently started making a large amount of content unavailable. Videos that I previously watched normally are now missing from search, and opening them from my Liked Videos gives me a black player with “This video is not available.” The same videos play normally when I am signed out of YouTube. The problem happens on multiple devices and on my home network, so it is not device- or network-specific. Restricted Mode is off, and my account is not part of a Google Family/supervised”

“I am looking for any way to search YouTube watch history (JUST the watch history, NOT YouTube searches) for a particular date range. Am I SOL? submitted by /u/TeaLDeahr [link] [comments]”

“Is there a way to remove all videos from Watch Later except keep the most recent 200 videos that I've added? Thank you submitted by /u/Vibe_Rinse [link] [comments]”

“Hello! For the past few month I've encountered problems with youtube on my phone. When I watch my video I want to see how much time there still remain on it. When I click on the video, a timebar appears blocked by random recommendations of different videos. Did someone have similar bug? submitted by /u/AlphaAuberon [link] [comments]”

“im not saving a video to my device, but I accidentally clicked it while trying to add a video to a playlist. What caught my eye was the fact you need to have notifications on to save a a video from your own channel to your currenr device. I honestly dont see why this is required.”

“Oh God. Sorry it happened to you. Mine came back after complaining to YouTube via Twitter DM”

“I am not even finished with a video and it takes me back to the beginning on its own!! Is it just me? What’s going on with YouTube? submitted by /u/The_Taco_Architect [link] [comments]”

“The wording of the feature makes it seem like this is the case and I always assume the worst about YouTube. I didn't even notice they had started having it enabled by default and it says that having it enabled will let your stream be "discoverable in shorts feed" without saying that will respect the unlisted setting. submitted by /u/MothmanAcolyte [link] [comments]”

“On the Roku app, is there any way to sort channels by newest content instead of alphabetically it recently changed to? submitted by /u/JMWallace44 [link] [comments]”

“Classic Google - if it ain’t broke, break it.”

“So until last week if I watched say 20 seconds of a video in a thumbnail preview and then decided to click through to watch it, the video would play from the 20 second mark. Now it restarts the video every time. I absolutely hate this. Haven't found anything in settings that will fix this. YouTube premium on Console and SmartTV. Anyone know what is going on and if there is a way to make videos continue from where they were during the preview. Thanks submitted by /u/TheArcadianDre”

“At least before the update, we could see throughout the day the view counts per hour. Now, we have to wait til end of the day to see the engaged views because the hourly reflected views are littered with nonsense views. SMH submitted by /u/Wild-Bid8858 [link] [comments]”

“I used to be able to remove all watched videos from the playlist, but this is no longer possible. Anyone else having the same problem? submitted by /u/Monk_of_Bonk [link] [comments]”

“I swear with the slew of stupid new features lately, I’m convinced they have some gorilla back there doing their coding. It’s super annoying!! I don’t want an audio preview of every damn video and it actually makes me more likely to just go to my subscriptions page for some peace and quiet! Who tf wanted this?! submitted by /u/SkyPuppy561 [link] [comments]”

“So recently I noticed a little icon in the upper right hand corner of my youtube app called "now playing". Clicking on it takes me to a video capture that says "now playing" but this video is not playing ANYWHERE. I can start another video and play it just fine, but when i try to cast it to the TV, it's thinking the other video is already being casted. Anyone run into this issue? submitted by /u/Jackiemoonfan [link] [comments]”

“So now when I pause the video this other videos block it? What if I need to pause and read something from the video? YouTube is literally the worst app now, constantly ruining the UX every update. We need a new and better YouTube alternative gosh submitted by /u/Available-Ant-5747 [link] [comments]”

“How do I stop this from happening? It's a recent feature (?) that bricks the mobile player in landscape mode. submitted by /u/Leishon [link] [comments]”

“I have a problem that is infuriating. Videos that I know I've watched, even 5-6 years ago, are reappearing and when I go to the channel, they seem to be marked as unwatched. I'm even using the YouTube Watchmarker extension. I've tried importing the old backup logs, but nothing works. It started this year. I first noticed it a couple of months ago, so I was wondering if anyone has the same problem and if something can be done about it. If this has been discussed or solved, I'm sor”

“Man, don’t y’all think YouTube made a bad call by changing how Watch History works? Now, if you turn your watch history off, you basically lose recommendations and can’t even watch Shorts like you could before. I usually don’t lend my phone to other people, but when I have to, I don’t really want them seeing the kind of content I watch through my recommendations/history. That’s why I used to keep my history off, and everything still worked normally. Why did YouTube have to change this? What do y”

“This has been happening to me for 3 weeks I wanted to watch some new penguinz0 stuff and I just got a notification now for his newest upload I went to click it but it said video unavailable I've done everything I've reset the data I've reset the cache I don't know what to do submitted by /u/WhitePony0620 [link] [comments]”

“Seriously, Watch Later has been a mess for the last couple of weeks (maybe months), does YouTube keep messing with it? Ability to reorder videos keeps disappearing and then returning. Much harder to reorder like the UI doesn’t want to respond. Swiping to delete also disappears and then returns every now and again. This is all happening on iOS with YouTube Premium. submitted by /u/thenameDS [link] [comments]”

“For the past week, I kept thinking I was scrolling past videos when I went to go back and see, only to find out they are actually disappearing. submitted by /u/DJ13193_yt [link] [comments]”

“I didn't think this would happen to me,but it did. I have seen several people say this. I didn't clear my watch history at all. The video was about a YouTuber talking about an Authur episode. It reappeared on my homefeed today. I watched it a few days ago. How do I fix this? The algorithm is messed up. submitted by /u/ASuperMarioFan1993OC [link] [comments]”

“Can YouTube please remove the "All views of this video removed from history" banner under YouTube shorts in History and return to previous interface? It keeps blocking ease of access to remove multiple shorts at a time, as you've gotta refresh every time to see other shorts in the same timeframe in watched history, or else the "All views...removed" sign blocks them. Before the update, shorts did not have this pop up and only long format videos did – this allowed to delete”

“YouTube needs to remove the "All views of this video removed from history" sign under YouTube shorts in History and go back to previous interface. It keeps blocking ease of access to remove multiple shorts at a time, as you've gotta refresh every time to see other shorts in the same timeframe in watched history, or else the "All views...removed" sign blocks them from showing up. Before the update, shorts did not have this pop up and only long format videos did – this allo”

“Is this just me? This happens on both my phone and my desktop. submitted by /u/ClearBed4796 [link] [comments]”

Of on android try morph YouTube. iOS good luck.

“I'm using YouTube Kids app to show cartoons to my kid. I chose several channels, like Bluey or Peppa Pig, and added them to Approved Content Only. But the feed is mixed by long and short fixed videos, so I asked support how disable them, or at least filter by tags. Here their official solution submitted by /u/GarikCarrot [link] [comments]”