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Discovering videos
You can discover YouTube videos in many different ways, including browsing by category, searching, and by exploring information about a video on its watch screen.
Viewing the channels of people who have uploaded a video you like is also a great way to discover videos: see “Working with channels” on page 303.
Search for videos
1Press the Search button when YouTube is running.You can also press the search icon | on the YouTube home screen or press | ||
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2Enter the text you want to search for, or touch the Microphone icon to search by voice.
3Touch a suggestion below the search box or touch the magnifying glass icon to search for what you’ve entered.
4Scroll through the search results and touch a video to watch it.Initially, your search results include every matching video ever uploaded. But you can limit the results to a more recent period of time by touching All time (or the current time filter setting) at the top of the search results screen.
You can set whether you want to filter out potentially offensive videos with SafeSearch. You can also clear your search history, so it is not included in suggestions when you search YouTube. See “Changing YouTube settings” on page 304.
Browse for videos by category
1Press Menu and touch Browse.2Touch a category in the scrolling list of YouTube categories (or touch All).The category screen opens for the category you touched, with a list of videos you can touch to watch.
You can limit the videos on the category screen to a more or less recent period of time, by touching the current time filter setting at the top of the category screen.
Touch a tab to view the most viewed, top rated, most discussed, or most favorited videos in that category.
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