Due to the way YouTube works, particularly how it highlights match details, it can spoil sports scores and highlights in a variety of ways, including via live or recorded video headlines, thumbnails, active notifications, and automated league highlights. This is also due to the fact that official channels often put the final score front and center, making it difficult to browse freely without coming across a spoiler. You can turn off notifications to prevent anything from appearing there and browse clips and channels as spoiler-free as possible, but there is another setting that can be extremely useful. In fact, it will completely hide sports scores on YouTube TV.
According to the YouTube support portal, this setting prevents final score spoilers and live previews from a currently active game. It’s also quite easy to light. Go to the YouTube TV app on your media or mobile device, find the team or league page for the scores you want to hide, and select the “More” menu, indicated by three vertical dots. In this menu you will see an option: “Hide all scores for this team or league”. Activate it and you are ready.
When enabled, scores remain hidden on all platforms. If you enable the feature on mobile, it will apply to TV and web apps. But according to the instructions, you will need to enable the feature for each league and for each individual team. However, some leagues don’t have a page to select teams, but you can hide the scores “at league level”. To reverse the trend, simply follow the same steps but turn off the toggle for the teams you’ve hidden.
There are probably some hidden settings like this that you didn’t know about
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Whether you’re a new user to the platform or have been through several of its biggest updates, like major changes to YouTube TV throughout 2026, including more premium plan options, there are probably hidden settings you didn’t know about. These settings or features are hidden, just like the “Hide all scores” option when watching live sports and streaming sports content.
Other things you didn’t know YouTube TV could do include channel guide customization, full on-demand access to content via unlimited DVR, simultaneous streaming, and much more. In fact, simultaneous streaming is a major issue for sports fans. You can use a powerful multi-view feature – an absolute game-changer, by the way – to view streams from multiple games at once. No more switching channels to keep an eye on game highlights and scores; you can play several of your favorite teams simultaneously on a single screen.
Not everyone can watch the games live, which is where unlimited DVR comes in. But if you’re going through game clips and highlights later, the option to hide scores will save you from the more glaring shocks.
