You’ll still be able to see notifications in the YouTube app’s inbox, and this change won’t affect channels that post infrequently.
If you’re sick of getting notifications for YouTube channels you haven’t watched in months, Google is testing a new feature that could help.
Viewers who haven’t recently engaged with a particular channel will no longer receive push notifications as part of the experiment, though notifications will still be available via the notification inbox in the YouTube app. The change also won’t impact channels that upload infrequently.
Explaining the move, Google said it found YouTube users simply turn off all notifications from the YouTube app entirely when they “feel overwhelmed or are no longer interested in a specific channel“, rather than simply changing their notification settings.
