
If you have turned Autoplay on and left YouTube playing while you are not watching the videos, all that will also be included in the total watch time. This traffic does not get registered to watch time due to privacy security mode. Views recorded in Chrome’s Incognito mode, or any similar feature in other browsers, will not count either. If you delete a video from watch history, it will not count in watch time. YouTube only keeps your watch time calculated if you are signed in to your account. Also, the watch times are calculated from all other YouTube products that are used to access the video content. YouTube Music or YouTube TV, times will not be factored in the “Time Watched” feature. Sometimes, this can be a helpful feature if you are interested in watching more, but it can also suggest videos you may not want to watch.Īutoplay is YouTube's default feature, and it offers a countdown between each video so that viewers can click away if does not want to watch the next one. The Autoplay feature also increases the watch time, it keeps on building the curiosity of the viewer to view more affecting mental and physical health. This constant looping eats up data and drains up the battery. YouTube Autoplay automatically queues up the related video and the video Autoplay after one another. And if you set midnight as the start time, the End time will be set as 6 A.M. It means that if you set 11.00 PM as the Start time the End time will automatically be set as 5 A.M. The bedtime reminder limit is for 6hours. It also gives a feature of “wait until I finish my video to show a reminder.” If you enable it, suppose the timer starts at 11 P.M and the video you are watching will finish by 11:10 P.M., so, the reminder will start at 11:10 P.M only.

YouTube introduced the bedtime reminder as a part of the digital well-being initiative.

The app will not shut down or stop you from watching videos, but it will give prompt to viewers again and again and this will compel viewer to make a more conscious choice. YouTube’s “Take a Break Reminder” feature helps to keep track and limit the amount of time you spend.

The tools for managing watch time are shown in the image below. The watch time feature can be used to manage time on YouTube.
#TAKE A BREAK REMINDER YOUTUBE HOW TO#
How to set a watch time period on YouTube. You can see daily and weekly watch times.Sign in to your YouTube app and tap on your profile picture.The steps to check your watch time on App are as follows − These statistics of your watch time will keep you alert to limit it. On the user accounts profile, the time watched gives us a display of the duration of watching the videos on a daily, and weekly basis. The idea is to balance your tech and personal lives. This feature help viewers keep their tech habits in check and limit their watching. YouTube has announced New Safety and Digital well-being options, especially for younger people on YouTube and YouTube Kids. Advocacy groups and researchers raised the alarm about the negative effects of too much screen time, so tech companies were forced to act on this issue. With that amount of content to watch, anyone who is passionate about viewing is bound to spend too much of his time on YouTube.This binge-watching has negative side effects on the mental and physical health of human beings. YouTube, the most popular video-sharing platform, gets 300 hours of video uploaded every minute on it.
