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New Delhi: YouTube has recently unveiled its latest settings that going to enable the users to effectively turn off Shorts by setting a viewing limit of zero minutes. This upgrade also extends the platform’s existing time management tools, which previously enabled users to limit Shorts usage but not completely turn it off.
YouTube has also confirmed that its zero-minute option is also going to live for parental controls, and it is now rolling out more gradually to regular users on Android and iOS.
This latest option is now part of YouTube’s time management settings, where users can set a daily limit for how long they will spend watching Shorts. Those earlier versions of the feature enabled the limits starting from 15 minutes, but users can now set the limit to zero minutes.
Once the limit is reached, the Shorts feed stops showing videos and displays the message suggesting that the viewing limit has been hit.
Setting the limit to zero effectively removes the Shorts from the application’s for the main user experience. By hitting the limit can also remove Shorts from the Home feed by reducing the chances of encountering the short-form videos while browsing. Shorts are not completely removed from the platform.
Users can still access them via the Subscriptions feed or by opening individual videos directly.
This setting can be allowed by going to YouTube’s application settings, selecting Time Management, and turning on the Shorts feed limit before choosing the time duration.
This upgrade also builds on YouTube’s earlier efforts by giving the users more control over how much time they are going to spend on short-form content, and particularly as Shorts has now become a central part of the platform’s video strategy.
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