YoiTube’s Incognito Mode is now live for Android users. WIth the new Incognito Mode, watched videos will no longer show up in your view history nor will they influence your recommendations.
Google has been testing an incognito mode for users of its Android app over the past few months. Today, the firm has finally rolled out the feature via a Play Store update.
Now users of YouTube for Android can easily switch to Incognito mode and browse the video app without their history or recommendations being polluted with random videos. It is also useful for handing a phone or tablet to children, especially as YouTube will restrict over 18 content unless the user logs in and verifies their identity.
Unfortunately, while in incognito mode users aren’t able to access any of the features of YouTube Premium, so there’ll be no YouTube Originals or offline media. To access those, you’ll need to sign in.
To switch to Incognito mode, all a user need do is tap their account avatar and select « turn on incognito. » For as long as you remain incognito, you’ll see Googles Incognito icon (borrowed from Chrome) where your account avatar should be, as well as a thin bar letting you know that you’re in Incognito (pictured above).
Incognito Mode is only available on Android for no,w, but we can’t imagine Google won’t be rolling it out to iOS relatively soon.
Source: The Next Web
