How to turn off TikTok watch history

One of TikTok’s most common features used to allow users to save and track their watch history, or opting out of the feature. However, people have noticed that the feature seemingly disappeared from the platform.

You may find yourself wanting to rewatch a TikTok video you saw earlier but forgot to bookmark, or maybe you accidentally refreshed the page and lost the video you were watching. TikTok fortunately can record your watch history for up to seven days at a time as long as you have the feature turned on.

However, if for whatever reason you decide that you don’t want your watch history to be recorded, you can switch it off in the settings. Here’s how you do it.

Can you switch off your TikTok watch history?

No, you can no longer turn off the TikTok watch history feature. While TikTok used to have the option to switch off your watch history, this has now disappeared and users are left having to delete their watch history every so often if they don’t want the app to save what they have watched.

However, deleting your watch history on the app is a really simple process.

How to delete your TikTok watch history

Turning off your watch history on TikTok is super easy, and you’re able to turn it back on at any time. Simply do as follows:

1. Open TikTok.
2. Click on your profile in the bottom right corner.
3. Tap on the three lines at the top of the page, then select ‘Settings and privacy.’
4. Scroll down to ‘Watch history’ under ‘Content & Activity.’
5. Now ‘Watch history,’ to see all your watch videos from the last 180 days.
6. At the top right of the screen, tap “select” to select what videos you want to delete. You can then tap “select all” at the bottom left of the screen to mark all videos before pressing delete.
7. You now need to confirm that you want to delete your watch history by pressing “delete” on the pop up message that showed up.

Step 1: Open TikTok and go to your profile

The first thing you need to do is to open up the Tiktok app on your device and then go to your profile. This is done by tapping on the button at the bottom right of your screen.

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After this, tap on the three lines at the top right of the screen. This will make a new menu of three options appear at the bottom of your screen. Tap on the one that says “Settings and privacy”.

Step 2: Go to “Activity Center” in settings

When you’re in settings, scroll down until you find “Activity center” and tap on that. This will be under the block that says “Content & Activity”. When you get to the new page, tap “Watch history” that’s at the top of the list on the screen.

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Step 3: Turn off watch history

A new page will have opened up where you can see all the videos you’ve watched in the past 180 days. Tap on “Select” at the top right of the page, and then tap “Select all watch history” at the bottom left of the screen.

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Then tap delete to confirm that you want to delete your watch history on TikTok.

If you want to learn more about how to use TikTok, check out our other guides including how to go live on TikTok and how to use TikTok Stories.