YouTube Shorts can mostly be disabled with a new setting (Gallery)

In October, YouTube announced a new timer that lets you limit how often and for how long you use short films, and now it’s being expanded to let you. efficient Turn off the shorts.

of YouTube October announcement Discovered a new timer that allows users to be notified after a certain amount of time has passed using Shorts. Initially, the time was from 15 minutes to 2 hours.

Now there is an option for zero minutes.

YouTube confirmed it The Verge The option to set a zero-minute YouTube Shorts timer is “live for all parents and available to everyone right now.”

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This feature effectively disables YouTube Shorts, as setting the timer to zero removes the Shorts from the YouTube homepage. However, you’ll still see them in the Subscriptions feed, and you can view individual Shorts if you’d like. Limit stops scrolling – if you scroll down, you’ll see a full-screen notification that you’ve “reached your shorts limit”.