Sick Of YouTube TV Spoiling Sports Scores? Enable This Setting
Due to how YouTube works, particularly how it highlights match details, it can spoil sports scores and big moments for you in various ways, including via live or recorded video titles, thumbnails, active notifications, and automated league highlights. This is also because official channels often put the final score front and center, making it hard to browse freely without running into a spoiler. You can turn off notifications to stop anything appearing there and browse spoiler-free clips and channels whenever possible, but there's another setting that can help out tremendously. It will actually hide sports scores on YouTube TV altogether.
According to the YouTube support portal, the setting prevents final-score spoilers and live previews of a currently active game. It's pretty easy to turn on, too. Head to the YouTube TV app on your media device or mobile, find the team or league page for the scores you want to hide, and select the 'More' menu — denoted by three vertical dots. In that menu, you'll see an option: "Hide all scores for this team or league." Toggle it on, and you're all set.
When enabled, scores remain hidden across all platforms. If you enable the feature on mobile, it will apply to the TV and web apps. But per the instructions, you'll need to enable the feature for each league and for each individual team. However, some leagues don't have a page for select teams, but you can hide scores "at the league level." To reverse it, just follow the same steps but disable the toggle for the teams you've hidden.
There are likely a few hidden settings like this you didn't know about
Whether you're a new user to the platform or you've been around through many of its biggest updates, like the big changes that have dropped to YouTube TV throughout 2026, including more premium plan options, there are likely some hidden settings you didn't know about. Those settings or features are tucked away, just like the "hide all scores" option when watching live sports and sports streaming content.
Some other things you didn't know YouTube TV could do include accommodating channel guide customizations, full on-demand access to content via unlimited DVR, simultaneous streaming and more. In fact, the simultaneous streaming is a big one for sports lovers. You can use a powerful multi-view feature — which is an absolute game-changer, by the way — to pull up streams of multiple games at once. No more swapping channels back and forth to keep an eye on game highlights and scores; you can have more of your favorite teams playing on a single screen simultaneously.
Not everyone can watch games live, which is where the unlimited DVR comes in. But if you're browsing game clips and highlights later, the option to hide scores will save you from the more egregious shocks.