How to block a YouTube channel on iPhone and Android

For your own account: “Don’t recommend channel”

1. Find a video from the channel

   On Home or in the list under a video you’re watching.

2. Tap the ⋮ menu next to its title

   The three dots beside the video’s title and channel name.

3. Choose Don’t recommend channel

   The video disappears, and YouTube stops suggesting that channel on Home and in Up next.

It’s the best a phone offers for an adult account, and it has real limits. Search still shows the channel. There’s no list of channels you’ve marked, and undoing one means clearing all of this feedback in your Google account’s activity, as YouTube’s help page explains. It does follow your account, though, so it also applies on your TV and computer.

For a supervised kid: Block channel for kids

If your child signs in with an account you supervise, you can block channels from your own phone. YouTube’s help page gives the steps for the app:

1. Open the channel page

   Signed in with the parent account linked to your child’s.

2. Tap More, then Block channel for kids

   The option only appears on the linked parent account.

3. Tap Continue, then Block next to your child

   Then Done. The channel is blocked wherever your kid is signed in, and in YouTube Kids too if they use the same account.

In the YouTube Kids app

YouTube Kids has its own Block option in the menu next to each video, for a single video or the whole channel. The app asks you to confirm as the parent first. Step-by-step guide.

If it’s the Shorts

Often the channel isn’t the real problem; the Shorts feed is. The YouTube app has a Shorts feed limit: tap You, then Settings, then Time management. It can be set to zero. For your own account it’s a reminder you can dismiss. Set by a parent for a supervised kid in Family Center, it can’t be.

What isn’t possible on a phone

• Blocking a channel from search on an adult account.
• Blocking by word, like a show’s name or “prank”.
• Hiding comments from a particular person under other creators’ videos.

All three work on a computer with FeedCut in your browser. If you watch on both, use “Don’t recommend” on the phone for your feed, and a real block on the laptop, where the rabbit holes run longer.

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Updated November 5, 2026