How do I block a channel on YouTube?

Last reviewed: September 29, 2026 · Markdown version

On an ordinary adult account there is no one button that makes a channel disappear from YouTube. What YouTube's help documents is three separate controls, and each stops something different: one tunes what you are recommended, one stops a person's messages reaching you, and one — for parents only — hides a channel from a child. Even the page titled Block channels on YouTube is about chat, comments and mentions rather than videos (YouTube Help: Block channels on YouTube, read 28 September 2026). So start by naming what is actually bothering you.

If it keeps turning up in your recommendations

This is the control most people are looking for. YouTube's steps: on pages “such as your Home and Watch Next pages, find a video, Short, or post from a channel that you don’t want recommended to you”, open More beside its title, and “Select Don't recommend channel or Don't recommend posts from channel” (YouTube Help: Manage your recommendations & search results, read 28 September 2026).

Two details on that page change how you should think about it. It is feedback rather than a wall — YouTube says this feedback “may be used to tune your recommendations”, which is a softer promise than never. And it can be taken back: in My Activity, under Other Google activity, “Select YouTube 'Not interested' feedback, then select Delete.”

The page does not say whether the channel also vanishes from search results. Treat it as exactly what its name says: a recommendation control.

If it's a person in the comments or live chat

There is a Block, but it acts on messages. YouTube: “You can block someone’s channel if you no longer want to see their messages on live chat, in comments, or receive their mentions.” It cuts both ways — “The channel you blocked will no longer see your messages on live chat, in comments, or receive your mentions” (YouTube Help: Block channels on YouTube, read 28 September 2026).

In live chat you tap the viewer's message and choose Block; in the app you can also start from a mention notification, via More and then Block this user. The block does not stay on YouTube: “When you block someone on YouTube, that person's account is blocked in other Google products.” Undoing it happens in your Google Account, at myaccount.google.com/blocklist.

Nothing on that page says a blocked channel's videos stop appearing in your feed or in search. If the videos are the problem, this is the wrong tool.

If you are subscribed to it

None of the above takes a channel you follow out of your Subscriptions feed. YouTube is plain about why: “Once you subscribe to a channel, any new videos it publishes will show up in your Subscriptions feed” (YouTube Help: Subscribe to YouTube channels, read 28 September 2026). The documented way out is to open one of its videos and, under the player, tap Subscribed and then Unsubscribe.

If you don't remember following it in the first place, that has its own page. If there are dozens like it, see how to mass-unsubscribe.

For a child's account, a real block exists

The one control YouTube describes as blocking a channel's content belongs to parents. Signed in with the linked parent account, open the channel page and choose Block channel for kids — under More in the app, or from the About tab via Report user on a computer — then tap BLOCK next to the child. YouTube: “When you block a channel for your child’s YouTube Kids profile using your linked parent account, you won't find it in YouTube Kids” (YouTube for Families Help: Block & share content on YouTube Kids, read 28 September 2026). The supervised-account page says the same parent account can “block specific channels you don’t want your child to watch” (YouTube Help: Parental controls & settings for supervised kid accounts, read 28 September 2026).

YouTube states the limits itself. “Blocking a channel only blocks content uploaded to that specific channel. It doesn’t block videos that are reuploaded on other channels, or similar channels with related content.” And on YouTube Kids: “If you sign out of YouTube Kids, any content you’ve blocked while signed in will be available when you sign out.”

Which one to reach for

Our suggestion, not YouTube's: match the tool to the annoyance.

It keeps being recommended: Don't recommend channel, from any of its videos, Shorts or posts.
A person is bothering you: Block, from their message or mention.
You follow it and wish you didn't: unsubscribe — the only one of these that takes it out of your Subscriptions feed.
A child keeps finding it: Block channel for kids, from the parent account.

For an adult who wants a channel hidden from search as well, none of the help pages cited above describes such a setting (YouTube Help: Manage your recommendations & search results, read 28 September 2026). If recommendations in general have drifted, resetting them is the bigger lever.