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TL;DR YouTube is finally letting you reclaim your feed by allowing a zero-minute daily limit for Shorts.
Setting the timer to zero effectively kills the addictive infinite scroll before it even starts.
Clips can still appear in places like your Subscriptions feed.
YouTube Shorts isn’t going anywhere, but for the first time, you’re getting a say in how much of it you actually see.
After a long period of promoting its TikTok-style feed, YouTube has quietly rolled out a feature that lets you dial Shorts way down, or effectively hide them altogether, as per The Verge. It’s not a complete shutdown, but it’s the closest thing yet.
In October 2025, YouTube added a timer so you could limit Shorts to between 15 minutes and two hours. When you hit your limit, the app would remind you to stop. Now, you can set the timer to zero minutes.
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To use this feature, go to Settings and select Time management. Find the Shorts feed limit and tap the zero-minute option.
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