YouTube Adds a Search Filter to Hide Shorts from Results
YouTube has introduced a new search filter that allows users to exclude Shorts from search results. The option separates long-form videos from short-form clips, making it easier to find standard videos without Shorts mixed into the results.
The change is part of a broader update to YouTube's search filters and sorting options. It applies to both desktop and mobile versions of the service.
Shorts cannot be disabled globally. The filter only affects the current search and must be re-enabled each time a new search is performed.
How to filter Shorts out of YouTube search
The filter is available directly from search results.
- Open YouTube and perform a search.
- Select Videos from the filter options shown at the top of the results.
- The results reload to show only long-form videos, excluding Shorts.
The same option is also available through the full filter menu. On desktop, select Filters in the search results and choose Videos under Type. On mobile, open the three-dot menu, select Search filters, and choose Videos.
There is no option to make this the default behavior. Leaving the search page or starting a new search resets the filter.
Other changes to YouTube search filters
Alongside the Shorts filter, YouTube has adjusted several existing search controls. The Sort by menu has been renamed to Prioritize, and the View count option is now labeled Popularity. YouTube says popularity takes multiple signals into account, including watch time, rather than relying only on raw views.
YouTube has also removed the Upload date - Last hour and Sort by rating options. Videos uploaded recently can still be found using the remaining upload date filters.
YouTube has not said whether the Shorts filter will become persistent or whether additional controls will be added in the future.
People here are speaking as if Shorts is the only problem of YouTube. The website has been garbage for years – the new UI layouts make it big, oversized and more difficult to use, not even talking about the search algorithm – you know there is a video, but you search for it and it never appears. The search result thumbnails are massive – you can only see 4 videos at a time, if you use an extension to restore the layout from around 2014-2015, you can view more than 8 results at once on the screen.
Shorts is actually a small problem that can be quickly fixed with content filtering that blocks shorts, Brave has it built-in too.
But it doesn’t fix the problem that the website has been pure garbage for years and it seems like it’s only getting worse and more bloated with useless things.
YouTube shorts are pathetic. We need to be able to globally turn them on or off at our whim.
When can we global shorts filter. Mind numbing iq lowering shorts have got to go