Learn more about Ask YouTube on the watch page when viewing videos
While you’re viewing a video on YouTube, Ask YouTube on the watch page lets you interact with AI to learn more about the content. For example, you can ask questions about the video you’re watching or choose a suggested prompt like "recommend related content." Learn more about generative AI.
Learn about the Ask YouTube feature!
Availability
Ask YouTube on the watch page is currently available in select languages and regions. The feature will appear on select videos. Availability may change in the future.
Supported languages
- Arabic
- Azerbaijani
- Bengali
- Bulgarian
- Burmese
- Chinese (Simplified)
- Chinese (Traditional)
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Filipino
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Greek
- Gujarati
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Indonesian
- Japanese
- Kannada
- Khmer
- Korean
- Malayalam
- Marathi
- Persian (Farsi)
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Slovak
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Thai
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Urdu
- Uzbek
- Vietnamese
Where you can use Ask YouTube on the watch page
- Åland Islands
- Albania
- Algeria
- American Samoa
- Andorra
- Angola
- Anguilla
- Antarctica
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Aruba
- Azerbaijan
- Bahamas
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belize
- Benin
- Bermuda
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brazil
- British Indian Ocean Territory
- British Virgin Islands
- Brunei
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Cape Verde
- Caribbean Netherlands
- Cayman Islands
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Chile
- Christmas Island
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands
- Colombia
- Comoros
- Congo (DRC)
- Congo (Republic)
- Cook Islands
- Costa Rica
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Curaçao
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
- Faroe Islands
- Fiji
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Ghana
- Gibraltar
- Greenland
- Grenada
- Guam
- Guatemala
- Guernsey
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Heard Island and McDonald Islands
- Honduras
- India
- Indonesia
- Iraq
- Isle of Man
- Israel
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Jersey
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Lebanon
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Macao
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mali
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Mexico
- Micronesia
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montserrat
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Myanmar (Burma)
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- New Zealand
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Niue
- Norfolk Island
- North Macedonia
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palau
- Palestine
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Pitcairn Islands
- Puerto Rico
- Qatar
- Rwanda
- Samoa
- San Marino
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- South Korea
- South Sudan
- Sri Lanka
- St. Kitts and Nevis
- St. Lucia
- St. Maarten
- St. Vincent and the Grenadines
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Svalbard and Jan Mayen
- Switzerland
- Taiwan
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Togo
- Tokelau
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
- Türkiye
- Turkmenistan
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- Tuvalu
- U.S. Minor Outlying Islands
- U.S. Virgin Islands
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Uruguay
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Vatican City
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Western Sahara
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
To get started:
- Tap below the video.
- Select one of the suggested prompts, or type your own question.
To get started on smart TVs and game consoles
- While watching a video, press the up or down arrow on your remote to reveal the video details and select the button.
- Choose one of the suggested prompts, or select the button to use voice input to ask questions.
Using your remote’s microphone
If your smart TV or game console has a microphone button on the remote, you can also use that to ask questions while you watch. Depending on your device, you may need to tap the microphone button once, or press and hold it while you ask your question.
Tagged products in responses
Ask YouTube on the watch page may show eligible tagged products in response to a question.
- Product inclusion: The responses may not include all of the products tagged by the creator.
- Earning commissions: Creators and YouTube may earn commissions from purchases of product(s) tagged in the video or other products you purchase on the site after clicking on a tagged product.
Frequently asked questions
This feature is available to signed-in users who meet the minimum age requirement (ages 13+ or the applicable age in your country) in available languages and countries.
This feature is not currently available for supervised kid accounts. It is also not available in the YouTube Kids app.
The feature is available on Android, iOS, web browsers on your computer, and smart TVs. The feature will appear on the watch page for select videos. Please note that availability may change in the future.
How does Ask YouTube on the watch page work?
This feature is designed to provide answers to questions about videos you're watching. Responses are generated by large language models (LLMs). The LLMs draw on info from YouTube and the web. Learn more about LLMs and generative AI.
Ask YouTube on the watch page is for informational purposes only. Don’t rely on AI-generated responses as medical, legal, financial, or other professional advice.
Ask YouTube on the watch page is continuously evolving and may sometimes produce inaccurate or offensive information (including about people) that doesn’t represent YouTube’s views.
How is this different from Gemini Apps?
What data is collected? How is it used?
When you interact with Ask YouTube on the watch page, we will collect data around your use of the feature and the queries and feedback you submit. This data helps us to provide, improve, and develop our products and services. Conversations connected with your Google Account will be deleted automatically after 45 days.
To help with quality and improve our products, human reviewers may read, give notes on, and process your conversations with this feature. We take steps to protect your privacy as part of this process. These steps include disconnecting your conversations from your Google Account before reviewers see them. We also use automated tools to help recognize and remove personal info, like email addresses and phone numbers.
Conversations which are disconnected from your Google Account and have been reviewed by human reviewers aren’t deleted automatically after 45 days. These conversations are kept separately for up to 3 years.
Learn more about YouTube Voice and Audio Activity Saving if you’re using Ask YouTube on the watch page on your smart TV, game console, or streaming device.
Submit feedback about the feature
To submit feedback:
- While watching a video, select .
- Choose one of the suggested prompts, or ask your own question, to get a response.
- On a response, select the thumbs up or thumbs down.
- Optionally provide more details about your experience.
Report a legal issue
To report a response for legal reasons:
- On a response, select the thumbs down.
- Select report legal issues.
- Follow the prompts to report a legal issue.
The feedback is:
- Reviewed by specially trained teams. Human review is necessary to help identify, address, and report potential problems raised in feedback, including as required under applicable laws.
- Used consistent with our Privacy Policy. YouTube uses this data to provide, improve, and develop YouTube products, services, and machine-learning technologies, as explained in more detail in our Privacy Policy.
If you’d like to view or delete feedback you’ve submitted about YouTube AI tools & features, please visit the My Activity page.
Can I chat with YouTube support through Ask YouTube on the watch page?
Does YouTube use my conversations to show me ads?
No, your conversations aren’t being used to show you ads. If this changes, we will clearly communicate the change to you.
To learn about how we keep our users’ data private, safe, and secure, read our Privacy and Security Principles.