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How to Delete or Remove All Liked Videos on YouTube

Key Takeaways:

  • You can easily remove individual liked videos from your YouTube profile
  • Mass deleting all your liked videos at once requires using Google Takeout
  • Regularly curating your liked videos list helps keep your recommendations relevant

As a long-time YouTube user and content creator, I’ve found that managing your liked videos is an important part of curating your experience on the platform. Over time, your “Liked Videos” playlist can become cluttered with content that no longer reflects your interests or that you simply don’t want to be publicly visible on your profile. Fortunately, YouTube provides a few methods for removing liked videos, whether individually or en masse.

Removing Individual Liked Videos

The simplest way to remove a liked video is directly from your “Liked Videos” playlist. Here’s how:

  1. Navigate to your YouTube profile and click on the “Liked Videos” playlist under the “Playlists” section.
  2. Find the video you want to remove and click on the three-dot menu icon next to it.
  3. Select “Remove from Liked Videos” from the dropdown menu.

The video will be instantly removed from your liked videos list. You can repeat this process for any other individual videos you want to unlike.

Mass Deleting All Liked Videos

If you want to delete all your liked videos at once, you’ll need to use Google Takeout, a tool that allows you to export and download your data from various Google services, including YouTube. Here’s the step-by-step process:

  1. Go to Google Takeout and sign in with your Google account.
  2. Click on “Deselect all” to uncheck all services, then scroll down and check the box next to “YouTube and YouTube Music.”
  3. Click on “All YouTube data included” and deselect everything except “likes.”
  4. Click “OK,” then scroll down and click on “Next step.”
  5. Choose your preferred delivery method (email link or adding to cloud storage) and click “Create export.”

Google will then create a downloadable archive of your YouTube likes data. Once the export is complete:

  1. Download the ZIP file and extract its contents.
  2. Open the “Liked Videos.json” file in a text editor.
  3. Delete the entire contents of the file and save it.
  4. Re-upload the empty “Liked Videos.json” file to Google Takeout.
  5. Import the data back into your YouTube account.

This process will effectively remove all your liked videos, giving you a clean slate.

Why Manage Your Liked Videos?

There are a few key reasons why you might want to periodically clean up your liked videos list:

  • Relevance: YouTube’s recommendation algorithm takes your liked videos into account when suggesting new content. If your likes no longer reflect your current interests, removing them can help improve your recommendations.
  • Organization: A curated list of liked videos makes it easier to find and rewatch content you truly enjoy.

As someone who has managed multiple YouTube channels over the years, I’ve found that regularly taking some time to prune my liked videos list helps keep my YouTube experience tailored to my preferences and ensures that my profile accurately represents my interests.

Whether you choose to remove liked videos individually or start fresh by mass deleting them, taking control of this aspect of your YouTube profile is a simple yet effective way to enhance your enjoyment of the platform.

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