Ammon News - YouTube just gave you the option to quit Shorts cold turkey, and it is buried so deep in the settings you would think the company does not want you to find it.

A new support page from Google quietly confirms that YouTube has rolled out a Shorts feed limit for all users on mobile. You will find it under Settings, then Time management, then Shorts feed limit inside the YouTube app. It lets you cap how much time you spend swiping through short-form videos.

The options go from a couple of hours all the way down to zero minutes, that last one effectively blocking the Shorts feed entirely. YouTube will never frame it that way, but that is what setting the timer to zero does as confirmed by reporting by The Verge.

The catch nobody is talking about

When your limit is reached, YouTube shows a reminder that your Shorts feed is paused. You can dismiss it and keep scrolling like nothing happened, so the limit is really a suggestion, not a wall.

For parents managing supervised teen accounts through Family Link, the timer is non-dismissible, so the kid actually gets cut off. Adults get a polite nudge we can swipe away. This is also mobile-only for now, so desktop users still need browser extensions to deal with Shorts.

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