For those who don’t like YouTube Shorts, there is good news: you can now pretty much remove it from your phone.
Essentially, YouTube’s time management settings now include an option to set a 0-minute time limit for Shorts, effectively removing it from the YouTube app on both Android and iOS. This option will be an update to the Shorts timer announced in October, which debuted with a minimum duration of 15 minutes.
The feature was expanded back in January to give parents more control over how long their children spend scrolling through Shorts, introducing the option of zero minutes.
YouTube spokesperson Makenzie Spiller told The Verge that the zero-second timer option is now available “for all parents, and is currently being rolled out to everyone,” including users with regular adult accounts, if you really want to dump the platform’s TikTok competitor.
Once you hit your time limit, the Shorts tab won’t show any videos and will display a notification that says you have “reached your Shorts feed limit.” The Verge also noted that hitting the time limit removes Shorts from the home screen entirely, so with the limit set to zero, you can essentially ignore the short-form video feature.
If this sounds interesting to you, go to the settings in the YouTube App, select “time management,” toggle on the Shorts feed limit, and then set a time limit.
Source: The Verge
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