How to delete all Watch Later videos on YouTube

On YouTube, you can create a watchlist, like the ones we use for our movies and TV shows on OTTs. Whenever you stumble across a video you find interesting but don’t have the time to watch it, you can put it in the ‘Watch Later’ playlist. Given how easy it is to save videos in your Watch Later, users tend to stuff it with one too many videos, making it very chaotic. I, for example, have over 100 unwatched videos in my Watch Later section. In this article, I will show you how to remove videos from YouTube Watch Later.

How to clear videos from Watch Later on YouTube

There is an option for you to delete or remove each video from the Watch Later individually, but when the numbers run high it can take a lot of time. Clearing the Watch Later with our method will dismiss both partially watched and fully watched videos from your YouTube. If you want to clear the entire list, the only way is to remove each video individually.

Delete YouTube Watch Later on Desktop

Here’s how you can clear the Watch Later section of your YouTube account from your desktop:

Open YouTube.com on your Windows, Mac, or Linux computer
Log in if you haven’t already and from the options bar to your left, select Watch Later
Here, you’ll find all videos you’ve selected to Watch Later. Next to the shuffle icon, there’s a triple-dotted icon. Click on it and further select Remove watched videos
Confirm the warning by clicking on Remove and you’ll find that all the videos you’d partially or fully seen have been removed from the Watch Later playlist

Remove YouTube Watch Later on Mobile Phones

The process described above can also be replicated in your Android or iOS YouTube app. Here’s how:

Open YouTube on your phone
From the options bar on the bottom, click on Library
You’ll see Watch Later (with the number of unwatched videos) in the options list. Click on it
Here, the triple-dotted ellipse icon is in the top-right corner. Select that and further click on Remove watched videos
Confirm the warning as was done above and your YouTube Watch Later won’t consist of the videos you’ve already seen

How to reduce YouTube data usage?

As a video streaming service, YouTube can consume a significant amount of your data. Not everyone who uses YouTube has unlimited bandwidth, so even though reducing data consumption may affect your video viewing experience, it’s important. The most common tools to do so are: