Profiles group your subscribed channels into separate feeds, such as music, learning, or news. They are channel groups within the app, not separate Google accounts.
For a lighter way to filter one feed, use subscription groups instead. Profiles switch the whole app to a different set of channels; groups filter the feed of the current profile.
Create a profile
- Open Settings → Data & Storage → Data.
- Select Manage Subscriptions to open the profile manager.
- Choose Create New Profile.
- Enter a name, choose its appearance, then select Create Profile.
Choose a color and name, check the profile preview, then select Create Profile.
The default All Channels profile collects your subscriptions. Use an additional profile when you want to focus on a subset.
Switch the feed you see
- Open the profile menu from the profile icon.
- Choose a profile in the profile selector.
- Open Subscriptions to view that profile’s channels.
An empty profile has no channels to show. Switching profiles is not a way to create separate watch-history or playlist libraries.
Add channels
To add a new channel, switch to your desired profile, open the channel, and select Subscribe. The channel is also included in All Channels. Once you have more than one profile, the arrow next to Subscribe opens Subscription settings, where you can tick the profiles and groups the channel belongs to without switching profiles.
To organize channels you already follow:
- Open Manage Subscriptions, choose the profile you want to edit, and open the Manage profile subscriptions tab.
- Select channels from the available channel list.
- Choose Add Selected To Profile.
- Return to your subscription feed and check the active profile.
Remove channels carefully
Switch to a profile and use Unsubscribe on a channel to remove it from that group. The profile manager also offers bulk selection for managing channels.
Removing a channel from All Channels removes it from the other profiles too. If you only want it out of one group, edit that group instead. Export your subscriptions before reorganizing a large library.
Use subscription groups
Groups are filters inside a profile, such as Music or Gaming. A channel can be in several groups.
- Open Channels and select New Group.
- Enter a Group Name, choose its channels, and select Create.
- In Subscriptions or Channels, select a group chip to show only its channels; select All to show everything again.
Once a group exists, the New Group and Edit Group buttons appear next to the chips on both pages. Use Edit Group to change or delete the selected group. Deleting a group keeps its channels subscribed. You can also add a channel to a group from its Subscription settings.
Back up profiles
Use Settings → Data & Storage → Data → Export Subscriptions → Export OpenTubeX. That format preserves profile information for importing on another OpenTubeX installation. Subscription groups and the custom channel order are settings, so the subscriptions export leaves them out. Use Export Settings, or Export backup with the settings category selected, to keep them. See Back up your library.