YouTube Now Lets Mobile Users Hide Shorts Videos

Earlier this year, YouTube introduced a new control for setting the amount of time you can spend watching TikTok-style videos each day. Parents can already set that Shorts feed limit for their kids to zero minutes, and this same option is now rolling out to all YouTube users on mobile, a YouTube spokesperson told The Verge.

You can set up this YouTube Shorts feed limit by going to Settings > Time management > Daily limits. As of this writing, the ‘0 minutes’ option isn’t available for my account yet, but The Verge reports that enabling it will hide all Shorts videos on the app’s Shorts tab, as well as the main Home page. This pretty much makes all Shorts videos disappear from the app.

YouTube said last year that Shorts videos now generate over 70 billion daily views, and the company has been pushing video creators to embrace this new vertical video format. The company launched a new revenue-sharing model, native tools for turning regular videos into Shorts, and more.

As you probably noticed, there’s also a lot of AI slop on YouTube Shorts, which is why many users may want to hide these videos completely. YouTube regularly introduces new AI-powered creation tools for Shorts creators, and a recent example of that is the ability to create your own AI avatar that will look and sound just like you in Shorts videos. Earlier this year, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan said that the team plans to “bring even more variety to Shorts by integrating different formats – like image posts – directly into the feed.”