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YouTube's "Time watched" characteristic uses your watch history across platforms to calculate your daily average watch time and total scout time. This wikiHow will help you lot use the YouTube app to notice out how much time you've spent watching YouTube videos.

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    Open the YouTube app on your Android or iOS device. The YouTube icon looks like a white Play push button on a carmine rectangle. Log in to your YouTube account, if you haven't already washed so.

    • Make sure that your YouTube app is upward to appointment, because this feature isn't available on older versions of the app. If information technology's not, get to the Google Play Store or App Store and update your app.

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    Tap on your account icon, at the tiptop-right corner of the app. The account menu will open up.

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    Tap on Time watched . It will be the 2d option. This volition open the statistics tab.

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    Review your watched time statistics. You can see your daily average spotter time and how long you've watched YouTube videos today, yesterday, and in the past week.

    • If you want to set a limit on YouTube after seeing how much fourth dimension you're spending in the app, read How to Apply YouTube's Have a Break Characteristic.

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  • Question

    Why would someone want to see how much time they accept spent watching YouTube?

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    For fun, or to monitor their usage. Perhaps somebody told them they watch too much, and then they can use this to determine whether or not they actually do.

  • Question

    I don't run across the 'Time watched' button. Where could information technology exist?

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    Go to "Parameters" and enable "Advanced statistics" to get the "Fourth dimension Watched" tab.

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    Is it possible to check how much fourth dimension nosotros have spent on YouTube in the laptop?

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    Currently, information technology is not possible to check how much time you spent on YouTube on your computer/laptop.

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  • You can too admission the "Have a break reminder" feature, "Autoplay" settings and "Notifications" settings from the "Time watched" folio.

  • This characteristic is only available on the YouTube app, but it volition count any videos y'all've watched through your YouTube account on other devices, too.

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  • If you have paused or disabled the YouTube watch history, the fourth dimension watched statistics will not exist available.

  • Videos you have deleted from your watch history or videos you've watched in Incognito mode will non be included in these statistics.

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