If your YouTube feed on Samsung Smart TV is filled with unwanted videos, old searches, and irrelevant recommendations, it means YouTube is still using your past activity data. The good news is you can completely clean this data, clear watch history, clear search history, stop tracking, and reset recommendations so YouTube starts fresh like a new account. This guide shows the exact settings inside the YouTube app on Samsung Smart TV and also from your Google Account activity page to fully reset YouTube recommendations.
Clear YouTube Watch History on Samsung Smart TV
Open YouTube app on your Samsung Smart TV
Go to the left sidebar and open Settings
Scroll to History & Privacy
Open Clear Watch History
Confirm Clear Watch History
This removes all watched videos from YouTube memory so it can’t use them for recommendations.
Clear YouTube Search History on Samsung Smart TV
Inside YouTube Settings go again to History & Privacy
Open Clear Search History
Confirm Clear Search History
This deletes all your old searches that were influencing suggested videos.
Pause YouTube Watch and Search History (Very Important)
After clearing history, YouTube can start collecting data again. To stop this:
Open History & Privacy
Turn ON Pause Watch History
Turn ON Pause Search History
Now YouTube will stop tracking what you watch and search on your TV.
Remove Bad Recommendations Directly from Home Screen
Go to YouTube Home Screen
Focus on any unwanted video
Press and hold OK/Select on remote
Choose Not Interested
Choose Tell Us Why → I’m not interested in this video
Repeat this for 8–10 videos and YouTube algorithm quickly learns your preference.
Reset YouTube Recommendations from Google Account (Deep Reset Method)
This is the most powerful method that resets recommendations across all devices including TV.
On your mobile or PC open browser
Open myactivity.google.com and login with same account used on TV
Tap YouTube History
Tap Manage History
Tap Delete → Delete All Time
Confirm delete
Go back and tap Saving your YouTube history
Turn OFF YouTube History
This completely wipes YouTube memory and stops future tracking.
Sign Out and Sign In Again on Samsung TV
Open YouTube app
Go to Settings → Sign Out
Restart TV
Open YouTube and Sign In again
This forces YouTube to refresh account data and fetch new clean recommendations.
Reset YouTube App on Samsung Smart TV (App Reset)
Press Home on remote
Open Settings → Support → Device Care
Open Manage Storage
Select YouTube
Choose View Details → Clear Data → Clear Cache
Open YouTube again and sign in
This removes stored app data from TV memory.
What Happens After Reset
YouTube home page becomes fresh, No old videos in recommendations, No influence of past searches
New suggestions based only on new activity. Better privacy and control over feed. If you want YouTube to recommend only your favorite type of content, start searching only that topic after reset and avoid random videos for some time. YouTube quickly rebuilds recommendations based on fresh behavior.
By following all these methods together—clearing watch history, clearing search history, pausing tracking, removing unwanted suggestions, deleting YouTube activity from Google account, signing out, and clearing app data—you completely reset YouTube recommendations on Samsung Smart TV like a brand-new account.
