{"id":100840,"date":"2018-05-16T15:38:25","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T15:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=100840"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:29:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:29:41","slug":"youtube-incognito-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/youtube-incognito-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube is getting an incognito mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Web browsers were the first to introduce incognito mode. Designed to allow you to surf the web without being tracked, incognito mode has now become an ever-present across many different apps. It looks YouTube will soon get the incognito treatment so that you can keep all those embarrassing videos you\u2019ve been watching secret.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/2018\/05\/15\/youtube-testing-incognito-mode-android-app\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android Police<\/a> report that a new <b>Turn on Incognito<\/b> setting has been spotted on some versions of the YouTube app. According to the report, Turn on Incognito will be found beneath the<b> Switch account \/ Sign out<\/b> button in the <b>Account Settings<\/b> menu.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-related-articles-grey\">\r\n<p class=\"sc-related-articles-grey__title\">Programs to download<\/p>\r\n  <div class=\"sc-related-articles-grey__row\">\r\n    <a title=\"YouTube Go\" href=\"https:\/\/youtube-go.en.softonic.com\/android?ex=REG-60.2\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-related-articles-grey__article\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-related-articles-grey__image\">\r\n        <div style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_optimized,f_auto\/p\/b0666ece-9b6e-11e6-8e86-00163ec9f5fa\/1239395823\/youtube-go-logo.png)\"><\/div>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-related-articles-grey__text\">\r\n        <p>YouTube Go<\/p>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <\/a>\r\n    <a title=\"Spotify Music\" href=\"https:\/\/spotify-music.en.softonic.com\/android?ex=REG-60.2\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-related-articles-grey__article sc-related-articles-grey__article--last\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-related-articles-grey__image\">\r\n        <div style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_optimized,f_auto\/p\/b91b34ba-9b2c-11e6-b83b-00163ec9f5fa\/3911485283\/spotify-music-logo.png)\"><\/div>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-related-articles-grey__text\">\r\n        <p>Spotify Music<\/p>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div class=\"sc-related-articles-grey__row\">\r\n    <a title=\"Tidal\" href=\"https:\/\/tidal.en.softonic.com\/android?ex=REG-60.2\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-related-articles-grey__article\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-related-articles-grey__image\">\r\n        <div style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_optimized,f_auto\/p\/d4331f94-e477-11e6-b012-66e48514aaf6\/249454132\/tidal-logo.png)\"><\/div>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-related-articles-grey__text\">\r\n        <p>Tidal<\/p>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <\/a>\r\n    <a title=\"Apple Music\" href=\"https:\/\/apple-music.en.softonic.com\/android?ex=REG-60.2\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-related-articles-grey__article sc-related-articles-grey__article--last\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-related-articles-grey__image\">\r\n        <div style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_optimized,f_auto\/p\/ba5e130e-9a66-11e6-877f-00163ed833e7\/2467342877\/apple-music-logo.png)\"><\/div>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-related-articles-grey__text\">\r\n        <p>Apple Music<\/p>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n<p>With incognito mode activated, no activity will be tracked and even subscriptions will be hidden. In essence, you\u2019ll be using YouTube as if you were signed out from Google account. Turning incognito mode off again will activate your account again.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, YouTube already has a\u00a0version of an incognito mode, but the new button will make it much easier to activate. Until we see a wider rollout of the new button, to activate YouTube\u2019s incognito mode you\u2019ll have to go to <b>Settings<\/b> then <b>History and privacy<\/b> and pause search and watch history. Another way to do it is to log out of your Google account whenever you don\u2019t want YouTube to track you.<\/p>\n<p>Do you ever watch YouTube videos you don\u2019t want anybody knowing about? Will this new feature be useful for you? Keep an eye out for this new feature as there is still no official word about when we will all have it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web browsers were the first to introduce incognito mode. Designed to allow you to surf the web without being tracked, incognito mode has now become an ever-present across many different apps. It looks YouTube will soon get the incognito treatment so that you can keep all those embarrassing videos you\u2019ve been watching secret. Android Police &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/youtube-incognito-mode\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;YouTube is getting an incognito mode&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9073,"featured_media":88968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2355],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-100840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionyoutube"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327988,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100840\/revisions\/327988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100840"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=100840"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=100840"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=100840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}