You can now get rid of those bothersome YouTube Shorts from your feed.

      YouTube has just provided you with the essential tool to escape the Shorts cycle.

      I’ll be straightforward—YouTube Shorts frustrate me. It not only consumes time but also leads to a mental drain that leaves you feeling unsatisfied afterwards. Fortunately, with a new feature that YouTube is currently rolling out, you can now remove it from your feed entirely.

      This feature enhances the Shorts timer that YouTube first introduced in October, which allowed users to set a daily limit for scrolling, ranging from 15 minutes to two hours. Once you reached this limit, YouTube would prompt you to take a break.

      Now, you can set your Shorts timer to zero minutes, effectively removing the Shorts feed from your YouTube homepage.

      So what happens when you adjust it to zero?

      By setting the timer to zero, Shorts will be completely eliminated from your homepage. You won’t see them pop up every time you open the app. However, it’s not a total block. Shorts will still appear in your Subscriptions feed, and you can still watch individual Shorts if you come across one and decide to view it.

      If you attempt to scroll regardless, YouTube will display a full-screen alert indicating that you have reached your Shorts limit for the day, placing the choice back in your hands.

      Who is this for, and when can you access it?

      YouTube has confirmed to The Verge that the zero-minute option is already available for parents and is currently being rolled out to other users with standard adult accounts. You can find this option in your YouTube account settings, though it may take some time to appear if you don’t see it right away.

      Parents have a more stringent version of this option: in parental controls, the limit notification cannot be dismissed, preventing children from simply tapping past it to continue scrolling.

      While apps like Instagram and TikTok offer similar screen time features, this zero-minute option gives YouTube a unique advantage for those seeking a definitive pause without needing to uninstall the app entirely.

      Rachit is an experienced tech journalist with over seven years in the consumer technology field.

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