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

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Check how many hours you spent on YouTube
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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.

Quick Steps

  1. Open the YouTube app.
  2. Tap your profile picture.
  3. Tap Time watched at the bottom.

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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.
  2. 2
    Tap on your account icon. The account menu will open up.
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  3. 3
    Tap on Time watched . This is towards the bottom of the page.
  4. 4
    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.
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    Why would someone want to see how much time they have spent watching YouTube?
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    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.
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    I don't see the 'Time watched' button. Where could it be?
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    Go to "Parameters" and enable "Advanced statistics" to get the "Time Watched" tab.
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    Is it possible to check how much time we have spent on YouTube in the laptop?
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    Currently, it is not possible to check how much time you spent on YouTube on your computer/laptop.
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      • This feature is only available on the YouTube app, but it will count any videos you've watched through your YouTube account on other devices, too.
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      • You can also access the “Take a break reminder” feature, “Autoplay” settings and “Notifications” settings from the "Time watched" page.
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      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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      References

      1. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9052667
      2. https://youtube.googleblog.com/2018/08/tools-to-take-charge-of-your-digital.html

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