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How to Use YouTube's Watch Later List

YouTube's Watch Later feature saves videos to a private list you can come back to whenever you have time. Here is how to add videos and watch your list across devices.

3 min read 5 stepsApril 19, 2026Verified April 2026

Add a Video to Watch Later

~29s

On the YouTube mobile app: find a video in search or on the home feed. Tap the three-dot menu (⋮) next to the video thumbnail. Tap "Save to Watch later." The video is added instantly. On desktop: hover over the video thumbnail and click the clock icon that appears, or click the three-dot menu → "Save to Watch Later."

Quick Tip

Quick Tip: You can also save a video while it is playing — tap the three-dot menu in the video player or on the video's page below the player.

Find Your Watch Later List

~15s

On the mobile app, tap the Library icon at the bottom of the screen. "Watch later" appears near the top of your Library. Tap it to see your full list of saved videos with thumbnails and titles.

Watch Your Saved Videos

~15s

In the Watch Later list, tap any video to start watching it. After it finishes, YouTube automatically plays the next video in the list. You can watch the whole list in order, or jump to a specific video by tapping it.

Remove Videos You Have Watched

~19s

To remove a video from Watch Later: find it in the list and tap the three-dot menu (⋮) next to it. Choose "Remove from Watch Later." Or, while watching a video from the list, tap the three-dot menu on the video → "Remove from Watch Later." Keep the list fresh by clearing watched videos as you go.

Save Entire Playlists to Watch Later

~18s

You can save a whole YouTube playlist to Watch Later — great for saving an entire documentary series or a course. On the playlist page, tap the three-dot menu (⋮) next to the playlist → "Save to Watch Later." All videos in that playlist are added to your queue at once.

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Watch Later is YouTube's built-in list for videos you want to watch but do not have time for right now. It is like a personal queue — save something with one tap and come back to it tonight, tomorrow, or next weekend.

Watch Later is automatically in every YouTube account. You do not need to create it — it is always there under your Library tab. Everything you save to Watch Later is private — only you can see the list.

The Watch Later list syncs across all your devices. Save a video on your phone and you can watch it on your computer or TV later.

Watch Later is different from "Liked videos." Liking a video (thumbs up) saves it to your Liked Videos playlist as a public appreciation. Watch Later is strictly a personal, private viewing queue that you can clear without any public impact.

You can add any video to Watch Later — whether you found it in search results, on the YouTube home page, or on a channel you follow. The clock icon or Save option appears on every video.

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