Message friends on YouTube
After September 18th, you’ll no longer be able to send messages directly on YouTube. Some parts of this feature may go away before this date, such as sharing a video as a message.
If you’d like to save a copy of your messages:
- Go to https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout/custom/youtube.
- In the YouTube section, select "All data included" to choose which data you want to keep.
- Deselect all data except "Chats".
- Select OK.
- Select Next step.
- Select “Creative archive”.
- You’ll receive an email when your archive is ready.
- Download all of your chats as a .zip file.
When you share a video on YouTube or get a message from a YouTube friend, a private conversation is created where you can view and discuss the video. You can watch shared videos directly in your conversation.
View & manage current conversations
You can view shared videos and current conversations, share more videos, and manage group conversation participants.
View your conversations
on the top right of the page.Share videos
. View or add participants
View participants or Add participants.Delete or leave a conversation
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