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Getting Started

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Refresh your accounts, pick what to delete, and run — it's three steps. Here's exactly how it works.

Before you start — pin the extension

Pin the extension icon to your Chrome toolbar before anything else. During account or channel refresh, the toolbar badge briefly shows progress like 0/N, i/N, OK, or ERR, then clears itself a few seconds later. Final cleanup results appear in the popup and through Chrome notifications.

Chrome extension menu showing the pin control for YouTube History Cleaner Pinned YouTube History Cleaner toolbar icon
Pin it first Pin the extension from Chrome's extension menu so the toolbar icon stays visible while you work.
Toolbar badge showing an in-progress refresh count Toolbar badge showing a successful refresh result
Badge examples While account or channel refresh runs through its tab flow, the badge may briefly show progress like 1/3 or OK.

Step 1 — Refresh your accounts

Open the popup and press Refresh. The extension automatically searches Chrome for every Google account you're currently signed into by working through its tab flow, then brings the results back to the popup.

Step 2 — Pick an account and a YouTube channel

Reopen the popup and you'll see a tidy list of your Google accounts alongside the YouTube channels linked to each one. Select the account you want to clean up, then pick the YouTube channel.

Watch history

Clears history on YouTube. The extension confirms your active account and channel before touching anything.

Search history

Clears history on My Activity. The extension confirms your active Google account before it deletes anything.

Step 3 — Choose what to delete and run

Check watch to clear your watch history, search to clear your search history, or tick both. Click Run cleanup and you're done.

Chrome cleanup completion notification window
Cleanup result example When cleanup finishes, Chrome may show a result notification like this so you can confirm the run without reopening the popup.

If Google asks you to verify again mid-run

Sometimes My Activity shows an extra sign-in screen halfway through. The extension stops and waits instead of guessing what to do. Finish the verification in that tab, then come back to the popup and press Resume to pick up right where you left off.

A few things worth knowing

  • If the extension can't confirm which account is active, it stops on its own — it won't delete anything it's not sure about.
  • If a Google account doesn't have a YouTube channel set up, the extension may fall back to the default Google profile.
  • Use Retry channels if the channel shown in the popup looks wrong — it checks the active tab again.

Questions? See the Release Notes, Privacy Policy, or Support page.