{"id":533989,"date":"2026-04-16T11:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T11:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/533989\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T11:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T11:28:11","slug":"youtube-now-lets-you-completely-remove-shorts-from-feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/533989\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube now lets you completely remove Shorts from feed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-neutral-grey w-full mb-4 text-body-6 md:text-body-5 font-body dark:text-neutral-white external:text-custom-content-text external:dark:text-custom-content-text\">YouTube users can now entirely remove Shorts from their feeds, if they\u2019d prefer to do so. A new option can effectively hide the vertical content altogether.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-neutral-grey w-full mb-4 text-body-6 md:text-body-5 font-body dark:text-neutral-white external:text-custom-content-text external:dark:text-custom-content-text\">Although Shorts have been part of <a class=\"hover:text-vertical-primary underline decoration-2 underline-offset-4 decoration-vertical-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dexerto.com\/youtube\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> for half a decade now, the quickfire content isn\u2019t everyone\u2019s cup of tea. If you\u2019re a fan of traditional long-form videos and care not for snappy, vertical clips, a new option lets you ignore it entirely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-neutral-grey w-full mb-4 text-body-6 md:text-body-5 font-body dark:text-neutral-white external:text-custom-content-text external:dark:text-custom-content-text\">Announced back in October, 2025, YouTube revealed new parental settings designed to help limit younger users\u2019 time spent scrolling Shorts. At the time, however, the previous lowest option was to implement a 15-minute cap.<\/p>\n<p>Article continues after ad<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-neutral-grey w-full mb-4 text-body-6 md:text-body-5 font-body dark:text-neutral-white external:text-custom-content-text external:dark:text-custom-content-text\">Now, as first reported by <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" class=\"hover:text-vertical-primary underline decoration-2 underline-offset-4 decoration-vertical-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/streaming\/912898\/youtube-shorts-feed-limit-zero-minutes\">The Verge<\/a>, time management settings on YouTube have an option for a zero-minute limit. This effectively removes Shorts from the YouTube mobile application.<\/p>\n<p>YouTube shorts can now be removed from your feed<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-neutral-grey w-full mb-4 text-body-6 md:text-body-5 font-body dark:text-neutral-white external:text-custom-content-text external:dark:text-custom-content-text\">The zero-minute option is now live for all parental accounts, and is \u201ccurrently being rolled out for everyone,\u201d as per YouTube spokesperson Makenzie Spiller.<\/p>\n<p>Article continues after ad<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-neutral-grey w-full mb-4 text-body-6 md:text-body-5 font-body dark:text-neutral-white external:text-custom-content-text external:dark:text-custom-content-text\">How the setting works is by limiting your exposure to Shorts on a given day. In the past, you could set a 15-minute cap, for instance. You would first be warned of your view time, and when hitting 15 minutes, Shorts would be disabled for the remainder of the day. They\u2019re then gone from the mobile app altogether.<\/p>\n<p>Article continues after ad<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Someone watching YouTube Shorts on phone\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"cursor-zoom-in\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/YT-Shorts.jpg\"\/>PixabayIf you prefer not to see any shortform content while browsing on mobile, the option is now there for you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-neutral-grey w-full mb-4 text-body-6 md:text-body-5 font-body dark:text-neutral-white external:text-custom-content-text external:dark:text-custom-content-text\">The Shorts tab itself is hidden, and Shorts are no longer promoted in your recommended feed. So now, if you set the option to zero minutes, you can effectively remove Shorts from your app indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-neutral-grey w-full mb-4 text-body-6 md:text-body-5 font-body dark:text-neutral-white external:text-custom-content-text external:dark:text-custom-content-text\">This comes three months after <a class=\"hover:text-vertical-primary underline decoration-2 underline-offset-4 decoration-vertical-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dexerto.com\/youtube\/youtube-is-finally-letting-users-filter-out-shorts-when-searching-for-videos-3302387\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube added the option to filter out Shorts<\/a> when searching on the video-sharing platform. If you truly never want to see a Short again, at least when browsing on mobile, the options are certainly there for you.<\/p>\n<p>Article continues after ad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"YouTube users can now entirely remove Shorts from their feeds, if they\u2019d prefer to do so. 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