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If you're tired of seeing Shorts appear at the top of your YouTube search results, the app's new filter will help you out.
YouTube on Thursday said it is adding a Shorts filter under the Type menu. This will allow users to remove the shorter vertical videos from the results page and get to the traditional long-form videos quicker.
YouTube's existing search results page shows you a mix of both Shorts and long-form videos. This can be irritating when you are looking for detailed videos for a query, but have to swipe past a pool of clips to get there.
Notably, the change comes after a recent report by video-editing firm Kapwing revealed that more than 21% of YouTube Shorts are AI-generated. The report also stated that around 33% of the Shorts sampled were "nonsensical, low-quality video content that creates the effect of corroding the viewer’s mental or intellectual state while watching."
The platform didn’t say when the new Shorts filter will become available, but the language on the support page suggests it could roll out soon.
Alongside the new filter, YouTube is renaming a couple of its search options. The Sort By menu will be changed to "Prioritize," while the View Count sort option will be renamed "Popularity." With the latter, YouTube will no longer sort videos only by views and instead will consider other signals, such as watch time.
The company is also removing two options: Upload Date - Last Hour and Sort by Rating.
YouTube said all of these features are being modified because "they were not working as expected and had contributed to user complaints."