How to See How Much Time You've Spent Watching YouTube Videos

Last Updated: June 29, 2021 Tested

YouTube's “Time watched” feature uses your watch history across platforms to calculate your daily average watch time and total watch time. This wikiHow will help you use the YouTube app to find out how much time you've spent watching YouTube videos.

Steps

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Open the YouTube app on your Android or iOS device. The YouTube icon looks like a white Play button on a red rectangle. Log in to your YouTube account, if you haven't already done so.
- Make sure that your YouTube app is up to date, because this feature isn't available on older versions of the app. If it's not, go to the Google Play Store or App Store and update your app.
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Tap on your account icon, at the top-right corner of the app. The account menu will open up.
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Tap on Time watched. It will be the second option. This will open the statistics tab.
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Review your watched time statistics. You can see your daily average watch 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 time you’re spending in the app, read How to Use YouTube's Take a Break Feature.

Community Q&A

Question

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

Community Answer

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

I don't see the 'Time watched' button. Where could it be?

Community Answer

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

Warnings

If you have paused or disabled the YouTube watch history, the time watched statistics will not be available.

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Videos you have deleted from your watch history or videos you’ve watched in Incognito mode will not be included in these statistics.

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