This week, YouTube launched a series of updates focused on taking care of the platform’s creators and viewers. According to a post on the support website, the latest of these consists of the launch of a new tool designed specifically to help users. Regain control of your short video consumption and avoid doomscrolling, an endless spiral that takes the user’s attention for minutes or hours.

To combat the loss of attention caused by constant scrolling, YouTube will introduce daily timer Integrated to limit the time you can browse the Shorts feed in the mobile app.

YouTube Shorts entertains and now “engages” users

YouTube’s digital timer lets users set a specific time limit for the consumption of this format. When the user reaches the configured limit, the app issues an alert and pauses the ability to continue browsing the Shorts feed for the rest of the day.

The new option can be easily managed from: YouTube mobile app Settings menu. Like the “Remind me to take a break” and “Remind me when it’s bedtime” features, which are usually found under the “You” tab and then “General,” the Shorts timer will also offer a clear option to set the daily limit.

Moreover, Users will continue to have access to the “View Time” featureIt is an application that provides detailed data on the hours they spent on the platform in the last seven days, allowing their spending habits to be known exactly.

This initiative Adds to a range of digital wellbeing features What YouTube already to its users. It currently includes reminders to take breaks and sleep, and tools designed to prevent excessive browsing of the platform’s traditional content.

By offering such an accessible and restrictive tool, YouTube is not only responding to growing concerns about digital health and parental controls, it is also responsible actor in users’ time managementThis function is an integrated digital shield that aims to transform the viewing experience from passive and endless browsing to conscious and limited consumption, showing that the solution to short video addiction paradoxically lies in the same application.

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