How to set YouTube to show all subscriptions / enable the subscription bell for all subscriptions at once?

Question

It's no longer enough to "just subscribe" to actually see all new videos in one's YouTube feed. One has to go to its YouTube subscription manager and hit the bell.

I subscribe to 100+ channels. (Most are small channels, with very few videos per year.) It would be tedious to click on the bell for each subscription.

Can I somehow set "yes, just show am all the videos for all the channels I subscribed to in chronological order"?

Answer 1

The only answer as of Aug2 2021 discusses if the YouTube bell has an effect or not. I feel this doesn't help the OP concretely.

I was in the same boat, wanting to ring the bell on something like 500 subscriptions so I stop missing videos. I ended up going to the subscriptions page and running this piece of JavaScript in the DevTools console:

$$('ytd-subscription-notification-toggle-button-renderer').forEach((x,i) => {
  setTimeout(() => {
    x.click()
    setTimeout(() => document.querySelector('ytd-menu-service-item-renderer').click(), 100)
  }, i * 300)
})

It's crude but did the job for me. It clicks on each subscription bell icon, then clicks on "show all".

• You need to first scroll down the page to preload all subscriptions
• You may want to play with the numbers to increase delay between actions, if it's too fast on your system.

Answer 2

It's no longer enough to "just subscribe" to actually see all new videos in one's YouTube feed. One has to go to its YouTube subscription manager and hit the bell.

Wrong. If you subscribe to a channel, you will see all their videos in the subscription feed. The bell is just about push/email notifications.

Can I somehow set "yes, just show am all the videos for all the channels I subscribed to in chronological order"?

If you are on YouTube, click the three-bar-menu in the top left corner and then "Subscriptions".