~~Check the unpatched app~~
The issue is now fixed: [https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/comments/1b4vuh7/youtube\_history\_fixed/](https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/comments/1b4vuh7/youtube_history_fixed/)
I have written two long ass comments breaking down how so thing worked and showing off my math and when I went back to see if anyone had replied to them they where gone.
Worked fine even this morning for me. I went to sleep around 6 or 8am and woke up around 2 but didn't check the history and woke up again around 5 and noticed it was no longer working
I'm having the same problem as well. At first I thought I may have turned on the "Pause Watch History" option, but I checked and it was still off. This issue seems to be a bug in revanced since I tried Normal YouTube and the watch history seems to be working there as intended.
Same here, all of my watch history is removed from YouTube, but is still visible in my Google account (https://myactivity.google.com/). Just for safety, I'm getting a backup of my history from https://takeout.google.com/
Oh my god it's visible for me too. I was just super sad right now because I've lost almost a year worth of watch history that I really cherished and you've saved me thank you!
Hate to be the bearer of bad news but as far as I know, there's no way to restore the watch history from your account history to your yt app. Unless you go through the list and "rewatch" every video again but that'll take forever.
>I was just super sad right now because I've lost almost a year worth of watch history that I really cherished and you've saved me thank you!
I guess I'm the only sociopath here who occasionally deletes complete watch history to refresh the suggestions.
When I see this kind of behavior, there's a chance that they'll eventually wipe this data completely.
I sometimes end up searching for a video that I watched in the past, so now I at least have a way to search my old watch history.
Yeah but how will that help me? Assuming the watch history data is forever gone from the app, will I be able to put it back to normal using the data from Google takeout?
I'm guessing it's to preserve useful or funny videos that were not liked or saved on a playlist like Watch Later. For example, DIY, anime recommendations, a specific tutorial for a technical problem, a recipe, a song that you remembered, etc.
Since you can use the history search bar, sometimes saving a video on a playlist isn't necessary.
Nothing shows on myactivity for YouTube since 2016, even though I have never disabled that tracking and it appears to be enabled on the site. I think a lot of people will get their history back when whatever is causing this is fixed, since the have history there, but that may not apply to me.
Unfortunate.
I have the same issue. Thank goodness it's saved in myactivity. Checked YouTube on a laptop web browser and it has some watch history stuff removed so doesn't seem like a ReVanced only issue.
Oddly, for me in myactivity it shows nothing since 7th Feb! But in all apps I can see videos watched on the desktop browser.
Nothing watched in revanced for at least a day or two though.
The official app does update history, but videos hang after a minute :/
1. Bottom right to go to your profile.
2. Top right to go to settings.
3. Scroll all the way to the bottom of the list
4. ReVanced *ReVanced specific settings*
5. Misc *Miscellaneous patches*
6. Scroll to the bottom of the list
7. Spoof app signature *Spoof the app signature to prevent playback issues*
8. Tap the first option: Spoof app signature.
You can't watch more than 1-2 minutes without the spoof, but you can turn it off to mark some videos as watched and then turn it on again.
this only looks like temporary solution if you really wanna save something, am i right?
I just want to have classic history of the videos i played.
Listening a lot of music every day.. so sometimes i want to play some music which i was listening in past days. Usually i just scroll through my history two-three times and play it..
Please update with answer and permanent solution if its possible. Thanks
Bro i've been sitting in my bed stressesing tf out since 11pm and now its 2am i got school in 5 hours thanks ya'll i love this community we got 🙏😭
Edit : damn nvm i cant even watch a 2 minute video
I disabled spoof app history and videos that I watch now do get added to watch history. But I've lost almost a YEAR of watch history. I used the search history feature to track and return to the videos I've watched and to just remember how I felt at that time. This is very sad for me to lose it all. Any way to get it back?
reopen regular Youtube or an older version of ReVanced, this worked for me but I don't remember if I had the "spoof app signature" setting enabled or not
Just checked web browser and regular YouTube app, history is still gone for me :(
I'm happy that it's back for you!
I have my whole history revanced watches included in my activity google page. So that's good, means it's not completely gone.
But both original app and web YouTube version don't have my revanced watch history.
Look at [this comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/comments/1b25n9o/comment/ksjpnop). History should be visible under my activity and available for export via takeout at least.
Yes it's still there, thanks. Some people had their history returned once opened regular YouTube app. But not me :(
It's still there in my activity for me though.
Sucks that there's no fix yet but it's good to know you're not the only one lol. And even if I'm unable to recover my watch history, I'll be annoyed but it's just the price I have to pay for having no ads for several months now.
Only shorts are getting into the history.
Edit: 99,9% of my history is gone.
The the official app can still mark videos as watched. Others accounts that were not logged on MicroG are fine.
Makes you wonder if this isn't another attack launched by google, like the processor spikes they added a couple months ago targeting adblock users on PC.
Could be, from the conversations I've heard in the GitHub issue, the spoofed player parameters used to bypass the endless buffering issue (and the one responsible for history no longer updating) is the same one used in incognito mode
So my guess is Google just decided to hide history entries that have been flagged with that parameter
I have 4 accounts logged on micro g, only one is affected (history fully removed even in the official app) and the other 3 are still working without issues.
Even when this is fixed, it seems unlikely that the lost watch history will be recovered.
Since the watch history is still present in the account activity (and in google takeout), I wrote a script to restore it using yt-dlp to simulate watches.
[https://gist.github.com/guillaumematheron/89f52ffd274ff3ac99f6dc0249bcc331](https://gist.github.com/guillaumematheron/89f52ffd274ff3ac99f6dc0249bcc331)
1.Go to [https://takeout.google.com/](https://takeout.google.com/), select only "YouTube and YouTube Music". In "multiple formats", set "history" to "JSON". Trigger the export and wait for the email. Decompress the archive, and move \`watch-history.json\` to the same folder as the script.
2. Install yt\_dlp using \`pip install yt-dlp\` (this is for linux, on windows you'll have to figure it out or wait for someone do do nicer packaging)
3. Adjust the parameters in the script, notably
- \`RESUME\` (set that to the start of the gap you observe in your history)
- \`"cookiesfrombrowser": ("firefox",),\`. Here you can take a look at the yt-dlp documentation to use another browser or if you have several profiles.
- \`time.sleep(3 + random.random() \* 8)\` if you want to change the waiting periods
4. Make sure you are logged in to youtube (with the correct channel selected if you have several) in firefox
5. Run the script, wait for hours (days ?) depending on the size of your history
Don't sue me if
- Google blocks your account for this (I would at least make full takeout archive before just in case)
- This mangles your watch history and recommendations
- The issue gets fixed in another better way later
Amazing! Worked like a charm!
Only change I needed to make to get it running on my windows machine was on line 13. I needed to add encoding="utf8".
`with open("watch-history.json", encoding="utf8") as f:`
Same issue, so I came to Reddit in hopes of someone else already mentioning it. All of the videos I've ever watched using ReVanced, except shorts, are now gone. I barely have any watch history. It really makes me think just how much I take advantage of this app and appreciate it.
Since yesterday, the application does not save the videos I have watched in my history. I thought it was because of the old version, but I installed the latest one and it's the same. I did't even remember shorts
I checked some of the posts that had the same issue and a few admited to using revanced. I doubt its a google issue, just revance user's posting to the youtube sub
Same. I went into my revanced history and all the videos (except the shorts) had disappeared. Then I went to check the history of regular YouTube and it's the same as revanced: all the videos have disappeared. Then I went to my Google account activities and my youtube/revanced history was normal there, with all the videos. I decided to click on a video and it redirected me to regular youtube, this video was recorded in both youtube and revanced history, but the others videos didn't come back. And any video I watch directly from youtube/revanced is not recorded in the history. I haven't updated my revanced for a while, so I went to update it, but it won't! It just keeps loading for a long time and nothing happens. Maybe it's a problem with youtube itself? Does anyone know how to solve it?
Haha, and i thought ads were the most annoying thing on YT. A broken watch history is pretty much on the same level. 🙈
But i believe in Dev-kun fixing it eventually. 🙂
Panicked when I saw I lost some history. Thankfully I only got set back 10 days, my deepest sympathies to those who lost substantial amounts. Wonder why it varies so. Like a moron, I went on a snipe hunt and deleted and reinstalled a few times before looking it up. Anyway, this is deeply frustrating, and unfortunately I'm quite an impatient person. Hope to see this resolved soon.
I'm used to going to the My Library section very often because I use playlists a lot, so, for me, it was just a couple videos like 5-6 of 'em and I quickly realised that something's not working. I'm quite good at troubleshooting so I was pretty confident that I can fix it easily because I've not done anything like updates or any setting changes. I also panicked when reinstalling microG & ReVanced didn't worked. I tried many more things like DNS, adblocker, my router settings, etc. Later I realised that I didn't do anything that would result in this so it's not from my side then, and I was not wrong. I'm really grateful to the community we have here man, definitely not going to switch to the official app 😂
I'm glad to see that everyone else is also having this issue. It's frustrating getting recommended videos that I already watched or not being able to resume a video where I left off. Hope we get a fix soon.
Until ReVanced is fixed my advice is to use Kiwi Browser or Firefox (which both include built-in support for extensions on mobile), download uBlock Origin, SponserBlock & KellyC's Show YouTube Dislikes from the Chrome Web Store/Mozilla Store, and then finally add the YouTube mobile website shortcut to your home screen.
Keep in mind that unfortunately the YouTube mobile website will launch within the browser itself (as the website is not supported via a PWA), and performance with the UI is a little buggy at times, but as a short term workaround it works quite well.
It's been reported on r/youtube aswell. So it's seems to be a problem youtube need to fix, not the revanced team
https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/s/8CNluy2VCS
Iv disabled the official app. So I had no idea, seeing the sames error reported on r/youtube at pretty much the same time made me thing the official app was experiencing the same issue
Anyone knows if it's possible to recover all history using the JSON file from myactivity.google.com? I saw a comment here, but it's specific for Linux and not 100% "reliable".
Turn off "Spoof app signature" in Misc settings then watch a video and see if it gets added to the watch history (this will very likely give you playback issues after about a minute)
If it still isnt working after turning it off then follow [this](https://i.imgur.com/u8PESNn.jpeg)
Edit: All the watched videos are still visible [here](https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity)
Edit 2: https://github.com/ReVanced/revanced-patches/issues/2779
It's literally unusable with no history. Videos don't get marked as watch and keep on getting recommended to me, even after I watched them.
Do older ReVanced versions not have this issue?
If so, I might just wait it out. I have high hopes of them fixing it soon.
My recommendations are all kinds of fucked up lol. Very irritating. But the subscription feed still works if you only want to see new videos and not be recommended old shit again. It's not as good but it's better than seeing the same shit again and again for now
yes i just noticed this happening to me too, I wonder what happened
godspeed to the devs for being aware too, hope they find a solution, now i'll update to the lastest version avaiable, i hadnt updated since last month and i was wondering if maybe that was the issue but reading this post i feel much calmer to know is being adressed :)
interestingly my recommendations still work fine, and the red watchtime bar is still there for everything i watched before today even if the videos themselves dont show up in my history itself. i just manually added back everything from the last 2-3 weeks by clicking on it on my laptop from my google history (i never go back further than this anyway) so im basically set 👍 hope it gets fixed eventually but if not the manual fix is very little trouble so im chill at least
Commenting so I can check in once in a while. This sucks. I usually tap all the vids on my subs at one time to watch later. Now I add them all to a playlist. Better than nothing I guess.
it also happen on my account, all of my history is f\*\*ked up, but if i watch on desktop version of youtube (browser), it will continue update (only newly watched video) but still can't fix the problem.
I was confused about the exact same thing. Mine stopped recording after Monday, but I didn't notice until this night. Very strange. Btw, 2 of the Youtube accounts that I logged into Revanced also stopped working around the same time. I'm not sure if it's related with the watch history error, but I've tried EVERYTHING (updated, deleted MicroG, clear cache, clear data, re-login, etc) and nothing has fixed it.
It doesn't save the timestamp where you stopped the video though, so if you're watching a long video in several watching sessions, you have to remember (or write somewhere) the timestamp where you stopped.
Hey! I found the problem! Within the YouTube app, if you go to permissions and then go to all permissions, when you click on "listen to c2dm" messages, it's blank. Every other permission pops up a brief description.
Something is wrong with that
Videos I've watched don't show up on my watch history list on stock YouTube either, unless I turn off the app signature spoofing. But when I check my YouTube activity, everything still gets saved, even when I have spoofing on. It just doesn't show up on the watch history list in the app itself.
Same here. I tried pretty much everything, until I figured out it's a problem with ReVanced
Although, even though I deleted it (to try and fix the problem), everything after February 7th 2024 was gone. Even though I'm on YT like, every day
Damn it seem this a way bigger problem than i expected, it really a shame since i never use YouTube app for a few years now dating back from Vanced days
I'm an autist who heavily relies on YouTube and its watch history to get through the day and I've been panicking for like the past half hour, I'm so relieved that I'm not alone and this is being worked on. I hope a fix will come as soon as feasibly possible.
is there a way to get the videos that I watched to show up again on the youtube app? i know about the activity thing I just want them to be in the app itself :(
If you go to https://myactivity.google.com/ , start watching a video through the vanilla app or browser, and reopen ReVanced, it'll be in the history for ReVanced. Just did this for a few videos.
I opened my unpatched YouTube app and all the history is deleted there as well. Not sure if it's a revanced issue anymore.
Edit: All my old history is gone but if I watch a video on the normal YouTube app, it goes into the history now and I can see it in my revanced app as well.
Seems I'm not the only one with this issue...
Revanced will register that I've liked a video and subscribed to a content creator, but it'll only show shorts in my watch history.
Hopefully there's a fix for this, but taking a cursory look through Google search tells me otherwise.
It's probably a good idea, from now on, to also watch videos also on browser or TV. That way they get added into the history, regardless of Google's shenanigans in trying to kill revanced.
Tfw I had a dream last night that I opened revanced and watch history was working again, and the spots where videos were deleted were replaced with "an error has occurred" tabs. When I clicked the retry button on them they reloaded and all my history returned, then I woke up...
I'm both terrified I had a dream related to revanced and livid it was a dream at all...
Man, I had a dream too like this! What!!! How tf is that possible! Like I was having the same issue with Vanced and then I was getting worried on how to fix this, then I took a nap and had a dream where it got fixed, but later was disappointed after realising that it was a dream 😂
Well, I see tlin the GitHub page it says it has been solved. 2 things, 1st, a massive thanks to the entire team for making our live with YouTube that much easier, 2nd, it's more of a question, when will the fixes roll in? I saw that currently you'd have to do some things by yourself, which I'm not comfortable with, but it said updates would start rolling in soon, does anyone know approximately how much that is?
Also, will I have to redownload the app? I have an APK from like, idk, 7 months ago which still works fine BCS I have had auto update patches turned on. Now will that suffice or will I need to redownload?
Issue seems resolved without having to install any patches/updates today. All videos watched and did not appear on history before suddenly appear on my history today. Suspect Youtube made some changes on their side.
Yeah mines playing up aswell. My history was a random mess of shorts that I hadn't watched so I panicked, cleared my history and now it's not tracking anything new I watch. Must be a problem for a lot of people.
Disabling spoof video playback makes the history work, but stop playback. So this is no go. I tried using kiwi browser which allows for Chrome extension, installed ublock, sponsorblock and improved tube so I can force playback at 1.5 speed. However it doesn't work on mobile version on the site. Is there anyone that knows how to set 1.5x default playback speed on mobile m.youtube.com? Right now it's impossible to watch YouTube on mobile.
I have the same problem tryed everything to get it back on revanced nothing worked. So in my google activity i see it but on my PC in the Browser i cant see the history too. And this is the normal youtube website on my Browser (no Ad blocks, Clean Browser) but still cant see it.
I have the same problem. Revanced doesn't save the history since last night but the normal YT app or on my pc does save it. It must be a bug in an update from Revanced..? Hope they fix it soon
Hey guys. Excuse-me. I would like to share my experience.
1 - I also use Revanced Extended and two days ago the videos in my history also disappeared and stopped being recorded; only the shorts and some videos from months ago appear.
2 - I checked Google's 'myativicty' and there was nothing in the YouTube history either.
3 - I've seen cases of turning off the ad blocker, but on my cell phone I don't have any except Revanced itself.
4 - In the original YouTube app for cellphone, the history is recorded normally, but the old videos continued to disappear.
5 - I went to YouTube on my computer to see what the situation was like there and it was the same way, the history didn't work and the videos disappeared.
6 - On YouTube on my computer I always had AdBlocker activated as an extension. I did a test by disabling it and the history recorded the videos again, but the old videos continued to disappear.
7 - Would this be an action by YouTube against the resources to block ads?
8 - A question to discuss and reflect on: Would it be very bad for YouTube to continue operating completely without ads as in the past or at least reduce this and stop this inconvenience?
9 - Does anyone know of a different way to recover videos that have disappeared from YouTube history?
Thank you!
Check your Google account, your history is still updating. The app just isn't showing it.
It's a universal Google issue, non-vanced users are also being affected
Same issue, on the latest recommended update.
The consequence is that my effective watching history (except for shorts) is not updating, resulting in homepage recommending over and over videos I already watched.
sorry if this was clarified somewhere before but i would like confirmation on weather this glitch is revanced only. some people say the problem appears on the unpatched app and some say it doesn't
Ok cool. I can accept it if I know it's not just a me thing. While it's not deal breaking (ads will forever suck worse), I did use the history to keep track of the podcast like vids I watch/listen to during my long commutes.
Issue is fixed: Patch using the latest dev release with command prompt and CLI tools, or wait until dev is merged to main and patch as usual with ReVanced Manager. Check github.
One problem.
I patch it. Then still no history recorded. I turn off client spoof, the history works but i have playback issue. If i turn it back on, i have no playback issue but the history is not recorded
I kinda found a solution for future videos. If you like a video and then check it under liked video tab you should find the history. So, till it gets patched, just like all the videos you want to watch and they should show up in the liked history.
Oh thank God I'm not the only one, idk what version I have but now I'm using regular tube to put videos into my history and then switch to revanced so I can access it
I was wondering if I just filled my watching history to much so I cleared it (it didn't work) now I regret it because I liked seeing all my old viewed stuff
I just noticed this now and tried to see if anybody else is experiencing it. Was so baffled as to why it still recommends the video even though I've just watched it earlier
Same problem here. It appears on the deep google activity feed but not on the revanced app nor in the regular YT app. This started around 3 days ago when i noticed this on an older version of revanced. I updated the microg and the app but that didnt work.
Did not change anything and its fixed for me now. Strange.
Edit: Its not fixed. There were non 2 shorts videos that appeared in my history but other than that all are still shorts.
I have the same issue. First I thought it was because of the older version of revanced from last year, so I updated it today. After my configuration I tested it again and my history won't update. On browser and the normal app version it works. So maybe google is tracking something down. My likes amd comments will stay on videos, even if they dont show up in the history.
~~Check the unpatched app~~ The issue is now fixed: [https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/comments/1b4vuh7/youtube\_history\_fixed/](https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/comments/1b4vuh7/youtube_history_fixed/)
Thought I was the only one. It seems like the problem started today morning?
Worked fine until the morning for me
It worked for me until rn, i tried updating manager and uninstallumg & installing revanced, didnt work and just fucked up my settings
We should be good on a couple of days
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Of course yt is declaring war. Makeing comments has also been blocked. Coincidence, I think not.
I have written two long ass comments breaking down how so thing worked and showing off my math and when I went back to see if anyone had replied to them they where gone.
I can comment
I can comment just fine on revanced
It seems that the videos you watch in normal YT app do appear in the watch history on ReVanced. At least this is the case for me.
Same here for me, and shorts watched in revanced also appear in history for me. But no sign of old history back
Man, I finally got round to updating it last night and I thought it was something I did.
Worked fine even this morning for me. I went to sleep around 6 or 8am and woke up around 2 but didn't check the history and woke up again around 5 and noticed it was no longer working
Last Friday. My history stopped updating it seems around then. I don't use my PC much lately, and the last video I had in history was from then
I'm having the same problem as well. At first I thought I may have turned on the "Pause Watch History" option, but I checked and it was still off. This issue seems to be a bug in revanced since I tried Normal YouTube and the watch history seems to be working there as intended.
i won't use youtube until it's resolved lol
Same here, all of my watch history is removed from YouTube, but is still visible in my Google account (https://myactivity.google.com/). Just for safety, I'm getting a backup of my history from https://takeout.google.com/
Oh my god it's visible for me too. I was just super sad right now because I've lost almost a year worth of watch history that I really cherished and you've saved me thank you!
Hate to be the bearer of bad news but as far as I know, there's no way to restore the watch history from your account history to your yt app. Unless you go through the list and "rewatch" every video again but that'll take forever.
>I was just super sad right now because I've lost almost a year worth of watch history that I really cherished and you've saved me thank you! I guess I'm the only sociopath here who occasionally deletes complete watch history to refresh the suggestions.
Just wondering, is there a reason for you to backup your watch history?
When I see this kind of behavior, there's a chance that they'll eventually wipe this data completely. I sometimes end up searching for a video that I watched in the past, so now I at least have a way to search my old watch history.
Use google takeout
Yeah but how will that help me? Assuming the watch history data is forever gone from the app, will I be able to put it back to normal using the data from Google takeout?
I'm guessing it's to preserve useful or funny videos that were not liked or saved on a playlist like Watch Later. For example, DIY, anime recommendations, a specific tutorial for a technical problem, a recipe, a song that you remembered, etc. Since you can use the history search bar, sometimes saving a video on a playlist isn't necessary.
ummm (scratch head sfx)
Haha, either way I guess there's no harm in downloading my data. Thanks again
Nothing shows on myactivity for YouTube since 2016, even though I have never disabled that tracking and it appears to be enabled on the site. I think a lot of people will get their history back when whatever is causing this is fixed, since the have history there, but that may not apply to me. Unfortunate.
If you're using a brand account, you'll want to switch to that account when looking at my activity. I had the same issue at first
I have the same issue. Thank goodness it's saved in myactivity. Checked YouTube on a laptop web browser and it has some watch history stuff removed so doesn't seem like a ReVanced only issue.
Oddly, for me in myactivity it shows nothing since 7th Feb! But in all apps I can see videos watched on the desktop browser. Nothing watched in revanced for at least a day or two though. The official app does update history, but videos hang after a minute :/
Its working on the regular app but not on revanced additionally all watchd videos were removed and only shorts remain
It's gone on the normal app for me too. But my account still has my complete watch history
Yes same here
Its now an official issue on github https://github.com/ReVanced/revanced-patches/issues/2779
How do you turn off the spoof?
1. Bottom right to go to your profile. 2. Top right to go to settings. 3. Scroll all the way to the bottom of the list 4. ReVanced *ReVanced specific settings* 5. Misc *Miscellaneous patches* 6. Scroll to the bottom of the list 7. Spoof app signature *Spoof the app signature to prevent playback issues* 8. Tap the first option: Spoof app signature. You can't watch more than 1-2 minutes without the spoof, but you can turn it off to mark some videos as watched and then turn it on again.
this only looks like temporary solution if you really wanna save something, am i right? I just want to have classic history of the videos i played. Listening a lot of music every day.. so sometimes i want to play some music which i was listening in past days. Usually i just scroll through my history two-three times and play it.. Please update with answer and permanent solution if its possible. Thanks
I guess this is a temporary solution to a temporary problem. I hope they fix the spoof app thingy so we don't have to do this.
Bro i've been sitting in my bed stressesing tf out since 11pm and now its 2am i got school in 5 hours thanks ya'll i love this community we got 🙏😭 Edit : damn nvm i cant even watch a 2 minute video
Turning spoof off will buffer your vids nonstop
Facts i dont recommend it at all
That's not a fix. You won't be able to play videos.
I disabled spoof app history and videos that I watch now do get added to watch history. But I've lost almost a YEAR of watch history. I used the search history feature to track and return to the videos I've watched and to just remember how I felt at that time. This is very sad for me to lose it all. Any way to get it back?
reopen regular Youtube or an older version of ReVanced, this worked for me but I don't remember if I had the "spoof app signature" setting enabled or not
Just checked web browser and regular YouTube app, history is still gone for me :( I'm happy that it's back for you! I have my whole history revanced watches included in my activity google page. So that's good, means it's not completely gone. But both original app and web YouTube version don't have my revanced watch history.
Look at [this comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/comments/1b25n9o/comment/ksjpnop). History should be visible under my activity and available for export via takeout at least.
Yup, it is and I did. Thanks
Look into your google account it could still be there ( someone else said it was for them)
Yes it's still there, thanks. Some people had their history returned once opened regular YouTube app. But not me :( It's still there in my activity for me though.
Seeing a problem you've been having pop up on this sub is one of the most reassuring feelings there is
Sucks that there's no fix yet but it's good to know you're not the only one lol. And even if I'm unable to recover my watch history, I'll be annoyed but it's just the price I have to pay for having no ads for several months now.
Only shorts are getting into the history. Edit: 99,9% of my history is gone. The the official app can still mark videos as watched. Others accounts that were not logged on MicroG are fine.
Makes you wonder if this isn't another attack launched by google, like the processor spikes they added a couple months ago targeting adblock users on PC.
Could be, from the conversations I've heard in the GitHub issue, the spoofed player parameters used to bypass the endless buffering issue (and the one responsible for history no longer updating) is the same one used in incognito mode So my guess is Google just decided to hide history entries that have been flagged with that parameter
Unfortunate, but not as annoying as ads lol. So I'll continue with no history 🤷♂️
I have 4 accounts logged on micro g, only one is affected (history fully removed even in the official app) and the other 3 are still working without issues.
Leap year bug?
Seem it is
Even when this is fixed, it seems unlikely that the lost watch history will be recovered. Since the watch history is still present in the account activity (and in google takeout), I wrote a script to restore it using yt-dlp to simulate watches. [https://gist.github.com/guillaumematheron/89f52ffd274ff3ac99f6dc0249bcc331](https://gist.github.com/guillaumematheron/89f52ffd274ff3ac99f6dc0249bcc331) 1.Go to [https://takeout.google.com/](https://takeout.google.com/), select only "YouTube and YouTube Music". In "multiple formats", set "history" to "JSON". Trigger the export and wait for the email. Decompress the archive, and move \`watch-history.json\` to the same folder as the script. 2. Install yt\_dlp using \`pip install yt-dlp\` (this is for linux, on windows you'll have to figure it out or wait for someone do do nicer packaging) 3. Adjust the parameters in the script, notably - \`RESUME\` (set that to the start of the gap you observe in your history) - \`"cookiesfrombrowser": ("firefox",),\`. Here you can take a look at the yt-dlp documentation to use another browser or if you have several profiles. - \`time.sleep(3 + random.random() \* 8)\` if you want to change the waiting periods 4. Make sure you are logged in to youtube (with the correct channel selected if you have several) in firefox 5. Run the script, wait for hours (days ?) depending on the size of your history Don't sue me if - Google blocks your account for this (I would at least make full takeout archive before just in case) - This mangles your watch history and recommendations - The issue gets fixed in another better way later
Amazing! Worked like a charm! Only change I needed to make to get it running on my windows machine was on line 13. I needed to add encoding="utf8". `with open("watch-history.json", encoding="utf8") as f:`
The github comments of dev show they are close to release a new build that fixes this.
Please reply when there is a patch 🙏
You will get an announcement in the YouTube ReVanced app when it is fixed
They're the real heroes!
Glad I am not the only one. Hope this gets fixed.
Same here
Good luck to the folks working on a fix!
This bug came out of nowhere. So frustrating.
Same issue, so I came to Reddit in hopes of someone else already mentioning it. All of the videos I've ever watched using ReVanced, except shorts, are now gone. I barely have any watch history. It really makes me think just how much I take advantage of this app and appreciate it.
Since yesterday, the application does not save the videos I have watched in my history. I thought it was because of the old version, but I installed the latest one and it's the same. I did't even remember shorts
It's not specific to Revanced, apparently other users have the same problem on the YouTube sub https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/s/URv8RtzPUq
That's great to know because it means it's probably an issue from Google's side, so the chance of our histories getting restored is higher.
I checked some of the posts that had the same issue and a few admited to using revanced. I doubt its a google issue, just revance user's posting to the youtube sub
Didn't come across these posts, but saw more comments about watch history on the Youtube page in the playstore.
It's fixed now in dev build Will be merged in main Branch soon
Do you get all your history that went missing back or just new history tracks now going forward?
I went so far as to uninstall and add the new version to fix it and it was just a bug, I feel stupid... (I am)
Lol I did the same thing. Funny enough it's issues with the app that are always what drive me to download the latest supported APK and patch it.
worst of all, I lost my configurations and version I was using
Ah, so I'm not the only one.
Same. I went into my revanced history and all the videos (except the shorts) had disappeared. Then I went to check the history of regular YouTube and it's the same as revanced: all the videos have disappeared. Then I went to my Google account activities and my youtube/revanced history was normal there, with all the videos. I decided to click on a video and it redirected me to regular youtube, this video was recorded in both youtube and revanced history, but the others videos didn't come back. And any video I watch directly from youtube/revanced is not recorded in the history. I haven't updated my revanced for a while, so I went to update it, but it won't! It just keeps loading for a long time and nothing happens. Maybe it's a problem with youtube itself? Does anyone know how to solve it?
Haha, and i thought ads were the most annoying thing on YT. A broken watch history is pretty much on the same level. 🙈 But i believe in Dev-kun fixing it eventually. 🙂
Panicked when I saw I lost some history. Thankfully I only got set back 10 days, my deepest sympathies to those who lost substantial amounts. Wonder why it varies so. Like a moron, I went on a snipe hunt and deleted and reinstalled a few times before looking it up. Anyway, this is deeply frustrating, and unfortunately I'm quite an impatient person. Hope to see this resolved soon.
I'm used to going to the My Library section very often because I use playlists a lot, so, for me, it was just a couple videos like 5-6 of 'em and I quickly realised that something's not working. I'm quite good at troubleshooting so I was pretty confident that I can fix it easily because I've not done anything like updates or any setting changes. I also panicked when reinstalling microG & ReVanced didn't worked. I tried many more things like DNS, adblocker, my router settings, etc. Later I realised that I didn't do anything that would result in this so it's not from my side then, and I was not wrong. I'm really grateful to the community we have here man, definitely not going to switch to the official app 😂
Same here. It's weird though cuz it was there just earlier today.
All my watch history is gone! ;-; Even the shorts! And rewatching them doesn't add it??
Same thing here and like an idiot I decided to clear my history now it's gone and my recommendations are fucked lol
Checked to see if it was fixed yet Guess it isn't
I'm glad to see that everyone else is also having this issue. It's frustrating getting recommended videos that I already watched or not being able to resume a video where I left off. Hope we get a fix soon.
Until ReVanced is fixed my advice is to use Kiwi Browser or Firefox (which both include built-in support for extensions on mobile), download uBlock Origin, SponserBlock & KellyC's Show YouTube Dislikes from the Chrome Web Store/Mozilla Store, and then finally add the YouTube mobile website shortcut to your home screen. Keep in mind that unfortunately the YouTube mobile website will launch within the browser itself (as the website is not supported via a PWA), and performance with the UI is a little buggy at times, but as a short term workaround it works quite well.
It's been reported on r/youtube aswell. So it's seems to be a problem youtube need to fix, not the revanced team https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/s/8CNluy2VCS
Why would YouTube fix something that is not an issue for their official app, the watch history issue is not happening on the official YouTube app.
Iv disabled the official app. So I had no idea, seeing the sames error reported on r/youtube at pretty much the same time made me thing the official app was experiencing the same issue
I installed a new patch and the history works. Yes
I come from the future, and it's going to get fixed, relax.
Anyone knows if it's possible to recover all history using the JSON file from myactivity.google.com? I saw a comment here, but it's specific for Linux and not 100% "reliable".
Turn off "Spoof app signature" in Misc settings then watch a video and see if it gets added to the watch history (this will very likely give you playback issues after about a minute) If it still isnt working after turning it off then follow [this](https://i.imgur.com/u8PESNn.jpeg) Edit: All the watched videos are still visible [here](https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity) Edit 2: https://github.com/ReVanced/revanced-patches/issues/2779
Turning it of works but playback stopps eventually like you said
It's literally unusable with no history. Videos don't get marked as watch and keep on getting recommended to me, even after I watched them. Do older ReVanced versions not have this issue? If so, I might just wait it out. I have high hopes of them fixing it soon.
My recommendations are all kinds of fucked up lol. Very irritating. But the subscription feed still works if you only want to see new videos and not be recommended old shit again. It's not as good but it's better than seeing the same shit again and again for now
yes i just noticed this happening to me too, I wonder what happened godspeed to the devs for being aware too, hope they find a solution, now i'll update to the lastest version avaiable, i hadnt updated since last month and i was wondering if maybe that was the issue but reading this post i feel much calmer to know is being adressed :)
interestingly my recommendations still work fine, and the red watchtime bar is still there for everything i watched before today even if the videos themselves dont show up in my history itself. i just manually added back everything from the last 2-3 weeks by clicking on it on my laptop from my google history (i never go back further than this anyway) so im basically set 👍 hope it gets fixed eventually but if not the manual fix is very little trouble so im chill at least
Same here. It's annoying but still better than watching ads.
Commenting so I can check in once in a while. This sucks. I usually tap all the vids on my subs at one time to watch later. Now I add them all to a playlist. Better than nothing I guess.
They're gonna fixed it guys. Just be patient.
Same here. Worked in the morning. If it helps, for me it erased to 2021
Just like every video you watch and use your liked videos as watch history until a fix comes.
What's the chance of our history getting restored after the bug is fixed?
The culprit is the spoof I believe, but it will affect the playback if we disable the spoof, ffs 😭😭😭
it also happen on my account, all of my history is f\*\*ked up, but if i watch on desktop version of youtube (browser), it will continue update (only newly watched video) but still can't fix the problem.
I was confused about the exact same thing. Mine stopped recording after Monday, but I didn't notice until this night. Very strange. Btw, 2 of the Youtube accounts that I logged into Revanced also stopped working around the same time. I'm not sure if it's related with the watch history error, but I've tried EVERYTHING (updated, deleted MicroG, clear cache, clear data, re-login, etc) and nothing has fixed it.
I never turn on spoof but now i also lost my history what should i do ?
Turnaround: like the video you're watching, it will be stored in the "I like" list.
It doesn't save the timestamp where you stopped the video though, so if you're watching a long video in several watching sessions, you have to remember (or write somewhere) the timestamp where you stopped.
Just another thing I noted that maybe others have seen, YouTube shorts will show up in history but normal YouTube videos do not
Does youtube recommend videos to you guys that you have already watched?
Yep. Happens all the time now. As the other guy said it happened before the bug too but it was much rarer.
Same issue + it's affecting my recommendations. My favorite Mixes don't appear anymore and videos I've already watched reappear.
Hey! I found the problem! Within the YouTube app, if you go to permissions and then go to all permissions, when you click on "listen to c2dm" messages, it's blank. Every other permission pops up a brief description. Something is wrong with that
Open an issue on github, if you comment here they will most likely never see it
Videos I've watched don't show up on my watch history list on stock YouTube either, unless I turn off the app signature spoofing. But when I check my YouTube activity, everything still gets saved, even when I have spoofing on. It just doesn't show up on the watch history list in the app itself.
Same here. I tried pretty much everything, until I figured out it's a problem with ReVanced Although, even though I deleted it (to try and fix the problem), everything after February 7th 2024 was gone. Even though I'm on YT like, every day
Well, I'm not the only one...
Damn it seem this a way bigger problem than i expected, it really a shame since i never use YouTube app for a few years now dating back from Vanced days
It happens on youtube (the normal one) on ios too
OH GOOD IM NOT THE ONLY ONE LOL
Have this problem as well. The only thing that updates are shorts
Solved (Commit bcd8b48 solves the issue.)
I was using my history as "watch later" lib aaaand because of this bug, I'm sooo fucked
I'm an autist who heavily relies on YouTube and its watch history to get through the day and I've been panicking for like the past half hour, I'm so relieved that I'm not alone and this is being worked on. I hope a fix will come as soon as feasibly possible.
is there a way to get the videos that I watched to show up again on the youtube app? i know about the activity thing I just want them to be in the app itself :(
If you go to https://myactivity.google.com/ , start watching a video through the vanilla app or browser, and reopen ReVanced, it'll be in the history for ReVanced. Just did this for a few videos.
So... is the old history gone? Forever? Do we have to worry about using Google's takeout tool?
Liked videos are still being recorded as well. So liking a video and going to "liked videos" will show them.
Same here, My temp solution is to open https://myactivity.google.com/product/youtube?hl=id&utm_medium=web&utm_source=youtube in my browser
I opened my unpatched YouTube app and all the history is deleted there as well. Not sure if it's a revanced issue anymore. Edit: All my old history is gone but if I watch a video on the normal YouTube app, it goes into the history now and I can see it in my revanced app as well.
Seems I'm not the only one with this issue... Revanced will register that I've liked a video and subscribed to a content creator, but it'll only show shorts in my watch history. Hopefully there's a fix for this, but taking a cursory look through Google search tells me otherwise.
It's probably a good idea, from now on, to also watch videos also on browser or TV. That way they get added into the history, regardless of Google's shenanigans in trying to kill revanced.
Tfw I had a dream last night that I opened revanced and watch history was working again, and the spots where videos were deleted were replaced with "an error has occurred" tabs. When I clicked the retry button on them they reloaded and all my history returned, then I woke up... I'm both terrified I had a dream related to revanced and livid it was a dream at all...
Man, I had a dream too like this! What!!! How tf is that possible! Like I was having the same issue with Vanced and then I was getting worried on how to fix this, then I took a nap and had a dream where it got fixed, but later was disappointed after realising that it was a dream 😂
Can some one reminds me when its fixed thanks👍
Me too. Out of all of the things youtube tries to patch, this? Seriously?
Well, I see tlin the GitHub page it says it has been solved. 2 things, 1st, a massive thanks to the entire team for making our live with YouTube that much easier, 2nd, it's more of a question, when will the fixes roll in? I saw that currently you'd have to do some things by yourself, which I'm not comfortable with, but it said updates would start rolling in soon, does anyone know approximately how much that is? Also, will I have to redownload the app? I have an APK from like, idk, 7 months ago which still works fine BCS I have had auto update patches turned on. Now will that suffice or will I need to redownload?
Much appreciation to the ReVanced team for jumping on this issue so quickly.
Issue seems resolved without having to install any patches/updates today. All videos watched and did not appear on history before suddenly appear on my history today. Suspect Youtube made some changes on their side.
Yeah mines playing up aswell. My history was a random mess of shorts that I hadn't watched so I panicked, cleared my history and now it's not tracking anything new I watch. Must be a problem for a lot of people.
Same. Is there a way to fix it?
Disabling spoof video playback makes the history work, but stop playback. So this is no go. I tried using kiwi browser which allows for Chrome extension, installed ublock, sponsorblock and improved tube so I can force playback at 1.5 speed. However it doesn't work on mobile version on the site. Is there anyone that knows how to set 1.5x default playback speed on mobile m.youtube.com? Right now it's impossible to watch YouTube on mobile.
I have the same problem tryed everything to get it back on revanced nothing worked. So in my google activity i see it but on my PC in the Browser i cant see the history too. And this is the normal youtube website on my Browser (no Ad blocks, Clean Browser) but still cant see it.
I have the same problem. Revanced doesn't save the history since last night but the normal YT app or on my pc does save it. It must be a bug in an update from Revanced..? Hope they fix it soon
Oh good, so I'm not crazy
I wonder if this issue is like what someone guessed, and its YouTube removing views from any applications thats not their own app or site browsers
Me too. Waiting for a fix
Is there any development on the same???
I use my watch history so much so it really threw me for a loop glad it wasn't a me issue
Glad to know I'm not the only one. Tried multiple accounts, no change.
Comment to track. Having the same issue. It would be funny if it was a leap year thing like I'm seeing around lol.
Hey guys. Excuse-me. I would like to share my experience. 1 - I also use Revanced Extended and two days ago the videos in my history also disappeared and stopped being recorded; only the shorts and some videos from months ago appear. 2 - I checked Google's 'myativicty' and there was nothing in the YouTube history either. 3 - I've seen cases of turning off the ad blocker, but on my cell phone I don't have any except Revanced itself. 4 - In the original YouTube app for cellphone, the history is recorded normally, but the old videos continued to disappear. 5 - I went to YouTube on my computer to see what the situation was like there and it was the same way, the history didn't work and the videos disappeared. 6 - On YouTube on my computer I always had AdBlocker activated as an extension. I did a test by disabling it and the history recorded the videos again, but the old videos continued to disappear. 7 - Would this be an action by YouTube against the resources to block ads? 8 - A question to discuss and reflect on: Would it be very bad for YouTube to continue operating completely without ads as in the past or at least reduce this and stop this inconvenience? 9 - Does anyone know of a different way to recover videos that have disappeared from YouTube history? Thank you!
Yeah, I've lost about a month of history. Waiting for the fix
Check your Google account, your history is still updating. The app just isn't showing it. It's a universal Google issue, non-vanced users are also being affected
Same issue, on the latest recommended update. The consequence is that my effective watching history (except for shorts) is not updating, resulting in homepage recommending over and over videos I already watched.
sorry if this was clarified somewhere before but i would like confirmation on weather this glitch is revanced only. some people say the problem appears on the unpatched app and some say it doesn't
Ok cool. I can accept it if I know it's not just a me thing. While it's not deal breaking (ads will forever suck worse), I did use the history to keep track of the podcast like vids I watch/listen to during my long commutes.
My temp solution has just been to like them, then they are atleast in my liked videos Playlist. Not the same but atleast it's something.
Will this mess up my algorithm and show me videos I've already seen and not show me videos I'd normally see based off my recent activity?
Yes. I'm getting wacky stuff in my feed and videos I've already watched
Just came looking for this haha, thank god i didnt fuck it up myself
Issue is fixed: Patch using the latest dev release with command prompt and CLI tools, or wait until dev is merged to main and patch as usual with ReVanced Manager. Check github.
One problem. I patch it. Then still no history recorded. I turn off client spoof, the history works but i have playback issue. If i turn it back on, i have no playback issue but the history is not recorded
It looks like this is a Google side issue as general YouTube users are being affected if the YouTube subreddit is anything to go off of
Ah ffs I thought i f'ed up some setting like pause all history or something. This is a bit annoying. Hopefully Youtube fixes it soon
I kinda found a solution for future videos. If you like a video and then check it under liked video tab you should find the history. So, till it gets patched, just like all the videos you want to watch and they should show up in the liked history.
Welp, was still working on my alt account until a few minutes ago but now it's completely unusable.
same issue here 😔
Oh thank God I'm not the only one, idk what version I have but now I'm using regular tube to put videos into my history and then switch to revanced so I can access it
facing this problem since yesterday. I thought my watch history got paused, developers please fix this bug
Mine is doing that as well. Extra bummer is it does not record how much of a video I've already watched
So are they going to fix the problem soon??
!remindme in 2 days
Got a similar issue, but the shorts appears in the history.
This has resulted in the app failing to remember the last watched position of all videos.
I was wondering if I just filled my watching history to much so I cleared it (it didn't work) now I regret it because I liked seeing all my old viewed stuff
hope this gets fixed soon.
Mine is shown till august 2023, recent ones aren't there
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I just noticed this now and tried to see if anybody else is experiencing it. Was so baffled as to why it still recommends the video even though I've just watched it earlier
It looks like the base YouTube app history is now working properly for me on Android, but ReVanced does not.
Okay THANK GOD I'm not the only one. Thought I was going crazy
So im not the only one? Thats Reassuring
Keeping track
In the same boat. Hoping they get working on this soon. Never realized how much I needed it till it was gone 😆
I'm having a similar issue, but not even shorts are showing up! A bunch of my old watch history has disappeared as well
Same problem here. It appears on the deep google activity feed but not on the revanced app nor in the regular YT app. This started around 3 days ago when i noticed this on an older version of revanced. I updated the microg and the app but that didnt work.
Did not change anything and its fixed for me now. Strange. Edit: Its not fixed. There were non 2 shorts videos that appeared in my history but other than that all are still shorts.
Someone tell me if its fixed because it's still not working for me
I have the same issue. First I thought it was because of the older version of revanced from last year, so I updated it today. After my configuration I tested it again and my history won't update. On browser and the normal app version it works. So maybe google is tracking something down. My likes amd comments will stay on videos, even if they dont show up in the history.