How to Clear Your Viewing History and Hide Watched Content on Fire TV

Having control over your viewing history and privacy settings is important when using streaming devices like Fire TV. Here is a detailed guide on how to clear your viewing history and hide watched content on Fire TV.

Why You Should Clear Your Viewing History

There are a few key reasons why you may want to clear your viewing history on Fire TV:

  • Privacy – Clearing your history prevents others who use your Fire TV from seeing what you have watched. This helps keep your viewing habits private.
  • Remove suggestions – Fire TV uses your viewing history to make recommendations and show “recently watched” content. Clearing your history removes this so you get unbiased suggestions.
  • Troubleshooting – Sometimes clearing history can help fix issues with recommendations not updating properly. It essentially gives the Fire TV a “fresh start”.

How to Clear Your Entire Viewing History

Clearing your entire Fire TV viewing history is simple:

  1. From the Fire TV home screen, go to Settings.
  2. Select Preferences.
  3. Choose Privacy Settings.
  4. Select Clear History.
  5. Confirm that you want to clear your viewing history.

This will remove all shows, movies, and other content from your viewing history all at once.

How to Remove Specific Titles from Your Viewing History

You can also selectively remove individual shows or movies from your viewing history:

  1. From the Fire TV home screen, scroll down to the Recently Watched row.
  2. Highlight the video you want to remove.
  3. Press the Menu button on your remote.
  4. Select Remove from Recently Watched.

Repeat the process for any other titles you want to remove. This lets you clear just specific items without losing your entire viewing history.

How to Stop Fire TV from Tracking Your Viewing History

If you want to prevent Fire TV from keeping a viewing history at all, you can disable this feature entirely:

  1. Go to Settings > Preferences > Privacy Settings.
  2. Turn OFF the option for Device Usage Data.

With this setting disabled, Fire TV will no longer keep track of what you watch. However, features like Continue Watching will also be disabled.

How to Hide Adult Content from Your Fire TV Home Screen

If you want to prevent adult content from appearing as suggestions on your Fire TV home screen, you can restrict this:

  1. Go to Settings > Preferences > Parental Controls.
  2. Enter a PIN code if prompted.
  3. Toggle ON the Hide Adult Content option.

This will filter out any adult content from being recommended on the home screen. Note that it does not block access to any apps or content.

Conclusion

Keeping your Fire TV viewing history and suggestions tailored to your preferences is easy once you know where the settings are. Clearing your full viewing history gives you a “clean slate”, while selectively removing titles keeps your overall watch activity private. Restricting adult content is also simple to achieve through the parental controls menu.

With this guide, you should now have full control over your Fire TV viewing history. Take a few minutes to update these settings for improved privacy, security, and viewing suggestions. Let me know in the comments if you have any other questions!