{"id":586717,"date":"2026-04-16T00:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T00:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/586717\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T00:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T00:19:09","slug":"youtube-now-lets-you-turn-off-shorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/586717\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">YouTube\u2019s time management settings now have an option to put a zero-minute time limit on Shorts, effectively removing them from your app in Android and iOS. The option is an update to the Shorts timer YouTube <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/804113\/youtube-shorts-time-limit-pause-feeds\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">originally announced in October<\/a>; the lowest previous option was 15 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The feature was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/861804\/youtube-shorts-teen-time-limit-parental-controls\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">expanded in January<\/a> to give parents some control over how long their kids spend scrolling through Shorts, with an option for zero minutes \u201ccoming soon.\u201d According to YouTube spokesperson Makenzie Spiller, the option to set the timer to zero is now \u201clive for all parents, and is currently being rolled out to everyone,\u201d including users with regular adult accounts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Regardless of age, it can be a handy tool for anyone who wants to spend a little less time scrolling. The Shorts tab won\u2019t show any videos once you hit your limit, just a notification that you\u2019ve \u201creached your Shorts feed limit.\u201d In our tests, hitting the time limit also removes Shorts from the Home screen, so by setting the timer to zero you can ignore Shorts entirely if you want. To turn on the timer, go to the settings in the YouTube app and select \u201ctime management\u201d then toggle on the Shorts feed limit and select a time for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"YouTube\u2019s time management settings now have an option to put a zero-minute time limit on Shorts, effectively removing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[3,108,7382,172,74,9280],"class_list":{"0":"post-586717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-social-media","10":"tag-streaming","11":"tag-tech","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-youtube"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}