How to Clear Your X (Twitter) Watch History in 2026 (Step-by-Step, Mobile + Desktop)

X's recommendation engine knows you watched 47 cat videos at 2 a.m. last Tuesday. It knows you paused on that political clip. It knows you re-watched the gym fail three times. All of it feeds the For You timeline and the ads you see — and most people have no idea X (Twitter) is keeping that log at all.

The good news: X lets you clear your video watch history. The bad news: the setting is buried, the menu has moved twice in the last year, and the rest of what X tracks (your old posts, likes, retweets, follows) can't be bulk-cleared from the same screen. This is the full 2026 guide — app and desktop — and what to do once you're done.

How to Clear Watch History on X (Twitter) App in 2026

If you're on the X app for iOS or Android, the path is the same on both. Open the app and:

1. Tap your profile picture in the top-left corner to open the side menu.
2. Tap Settings and Support, then Settings and privacy.
3. Tap Privacy and safety.
4. Scroll down to the Data sharing and personalization group and tap Personalization and data.
5. Look for Clear video viewing history (or Clear watch history on some builds) and tap it.
6. Confirm. The history clears immediately — no email confirmation, no undo.

That's it. Your video watch history on X (Twitter) is gone, and the For You algorithm starts again from whatever you do next.

One thing worth knowing: clearing the history does not opt you out of future tracking. X starts logging again the moment you watch the next video. If you want to stop the logging itself, look one row up in the same menu for Personalize based on your inferred identity and toggle off the items you don't want.

How to Clear Video Watch History on X (Twitter) on Desktop in 2026

The desktop flow is shorter because the sidebar is always visible. On x.com:

1. Click More (three dots) in the left sidebar.
2. Click Settings and privacy.
3. Click Privacy and safety in the settings menu.
4. Click Personalization and data under the Data sharing and personalization heading.
5. Click Clear video viewing history.
6. Confirm in the popup.

The desktop version sometimes shows a count of how many videos are stored before you clear — a useful gut-check on how much X is logging in a normal week. Hit clear and that number resets to zero.

If you also want X to stop using off-X browsing data (sites that have the X embed or login button), the Allow use of web browsing history toggle is on the same page. Turning it off cuts a separate tracking pipe.

What X Doesn't Let You Bulk-Clear (and What to Do About It)

Here's what trips people up. Clearing video watch history resets X's view of what you watch. It does nothing to the other stuff X keeps on file about you — and that's the stuff most people actually want gone before a job hunt, a press interview, or a clean slate.

X does not give you a bulk-clear button for any of the following:

• Old posts (tweets) — you can delete them one at a time, or not at all. There's no "select all" in the app.
• Likes you've given — every heart you've ever tapped is still on your profile under Likes. No bulk option.
• Retweets — same story. One by one, manually.
• Accounts you follow — unfollowing has a 400/day soft cap and no select-all.
• Bookmarks — clear-all exists for bookmarks specifically, but only in certain regions and app builds.
• DMs — you can delete a conversation, but not in bulk across an inbox of hundreds.

This is the gap XWipe was built to fill. We pull your X data through the public API and clean what X's own settings won't — old posts, likes, retweets, follows, bookmarks, DMs — in one run. Want the specifics on tweet cleanup? See our guide to deleting all your tweets in one go.

If you want a clean account, watch history is step one. Clearing the rest is step two — and that's what XWipe does in five minutes.

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