YouTube Recap 2025: How to access Google’s AI-powered answer to Spotify Wrapped and see your year in review

Many major platforms provide personalized “year in review” features that highlight how users have spent their time over the past year.

Spotify Wrapped is the most popular of these summaries, but Apple Music, Snapchat, Deezer, and others also offer them.

And now, internet users have a new year-in-review feature to check out this year: YouTube Recap.

Here’s what you need to know about the video site’s year-in-review and how to access it—especially if you’re looking to kill some time while waiting for Spotify Wrapped 2025 to come out.

What is YouTube Recap?

YouTube Recap is Google’s just-announced year-in-review feature for its YouTube platform. The personalized recap displays various metrics about your YouTube viewing habits over the past year.

The Recap feature takes the form of a Story, or YouTube Short.

As YouTube explained in a blog post, “You’ll get a set of up to 12 different cards that spotlight your top channels, interests, and even the evolution of your viewing habits, or which personality type you fall into based on the videos you loved to watch!” 

Cards include your top interests, your top channels, and your interests based on video views.

If you listen to a lot of music on YouTube, your YouTube Recap will also display your top artists and top songs from YouTube Music. 

One interesting bit of information comes from a disclaimer that the YouTube Recap displays when you view it. That disclaimer reads “AI can make mistakes.” This suggests that Google is relying on artificial intelligence to curate and assemble YouTube Recap videos.

Discover your YouTube personality

Your YouTube Recap video may also feature a “personality” card that YouTube says reveals what type of personality you have based on your YouTube watch history.

The full list of possible personalities includes:

• The Adventurer: You’re drawn to content that takes you on an exciting journey.
• The Challenger: You’re drawn to content that shows competition and rising to the challenge.
• The Changemaker: You’re drawn to content that inspires positive change in the world.
• The Connector: You’re drawn to content that sparks conversation and builds community.
• The Creative Spirit: You’re drawn to content that inspires self-expression.
• The Curious Mind: You’re drawn to educational content that helps you understand the world.
• The Dreamer: You’re drawn to content that fuels your imagination.
• The Philosopher: You’re drawn to content that explores the deeper meaning of things.
• The Self-Improver: You’re drawn to content that helps you grow and reach your potential.
• The Serenity Seeker: You’re drawn to content that helps you relax and find your inner peace.
• The Skill Builder: You’re drawn to content that helps you develop skills.
• The Sunshiner: You’re drawn to content that spreads positivity and good vibes.
• The Trailblazer: You’re drawn to content that’s original and challenges the norm.
• The Wonder Seeker: You’re drawn to awe-inspiring content that shows extraordinary skills.

In its blog post, YouTube says the most common personalities are the Connector, the Sunshiner, and the Wonder Seeker. The least common personalities are the Dreamer and the Philosopher, which YouTube says are “more elusive and rare personas.”

How to access your YouTube Recap 2025 on the web

YouTube provides two ways users can access their YouTube Recap. The first is by using any web browser. To access your YouTube 2025 Recap on the web:

1. Go to www.youtube.com/recap and make sure you are signed in. 
2. You’ll find a “Your 2025 Recap is here!” banner at the top of the page. Click it.

Your YouTube Recap video will open on the same webpage.

How to access your YouTube Recap 2025 in the YouTube app

You can also access your YouTube Recap directly in the YouTube app on iPhone and Android. Here’s how:

1. Open the YouTube app.
2. Tap the “You” tab.
3. You’ll find a “Your 2025 Recap is here!” banner at the top of the page. Tap it.

Your YouTube Recap video will now open in the YouTube app on your smartphone.

How to share your YouTube Recap video

While people love viewing their year-in-review roundups, many also enjoy sharing them with friends and family.

And YouTube makes it easy to share your YouTube Recap video. The caveat here, however, is that you need to share it from the YouTube app. Sharing of your YouTube Recap video from a web browser does not seem to be supported at this time.

To share your YouTube Recap video:

1. Open the YouTube app.
2. Tap the “You” tab.
3. You’ll find a “Your 2025 Recap is here!” banner at the top of the page. Tap it.
4. As the video plays, you’ll see a “Share” button at the bottom of the video. Tap it.
5. From the pop-up menu, select the person or app you want to share a link to your personalized YouTube Recap video with.

YouTube Recap is available now to users in North America. It will roll out to users worldwide this week.

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