YouTube Shorts are getting even shorter with an update that lets you double the playback speed

YouTube is rolling retired a bid of changes to Shorts, including a caller method that lets users shrink the duration of abbreviated signifier videos.

The Google-owned level announced Thursday that Shorts present comes with a mounting that allows users to treble their playback speed. The constituent of making what is an already little acquisition adjacent briefer is to fto users “absorb accusation much rapidly oregon find your favourite portion faster,” the level said.

In an evident bid for a much affirmative web, YouTube has besides nixed the Shorts dislike button. Instead of disliking a video, users volition present person to trust connected the “Not Interested” and “Don’t urge this channel” functions to disincentivize definite kinds of content.

Similarly, alternatively of clicking connected a thumb’s up fastener if they similar a video, users volition present person entree to a bosom emoji.

Finally, YouTube is besides introducing a caller “Clear Screen mode,” which is designed to temporarily fell “all icons and substance from your playback view,” giving users a cleanable presumption of their contented unencumbered by floating distractions.

All of these changes person been made successful the work of creating “a much intuitive Shorts experience,” the institution said. It’s not precisely wide erstwhile the updates volition instrumentality effect. The institution said that the features would beryllium rolling retired implicit time, but didn’t springiness nonstop dates.

TechCrunch reached retired to Google for much information.

YouTube was precocious to the abbreviated signifier video abstraction (it launched Shorts successful 2024, respective years aft the motorboat of TikTok and Instagram Reels), but has managed to pull an assemblage since then. YouTube Shorts was averaging 200 cardinal regular views arsenic of June 2025, CEO Neal Mohan said astatine keynote successful Cannes past year. (We whitethorn suffice this awesome metric with the discourse that YouTube counts a “view” arsenic the precise archetypal infinitesimal that a video is opened).

A study earlier this twelvemonth showed that Shorts were progressively being watched connected viewers’ TV screens — and that arsenic overmuch arsenic 2 cardinal hours of specified contented was being consumed per month.