YouTube Shorts are getting longer. From October 15 you can create Shorts of up to three minutes. This was apparently a highly requested feature, and now it’s almost here.
The change obviously won’t affect videos uploaded before October 15 and applies to videos with a square or larger aspect ratio. YouTube also says it will work hard to improve its recommendations for longer Shorts “in the coming months.”
Shorts also get templates, which you can try by tapping Remix on a Short and then selecting Use this template. And “in the coming months” you’ll be able to remix clips from your favorite YouTube videos, and even pull from multiple clips on YouTube.
There’s a new Shorts Trends page on mobile and soon you’ll see a preview of what people are saying in the comments in the Shorts feed.
If you hate Shorts, then you’ll be happy to know that YouTube is introducing an option to show less of them. You can choose this by tapping the three dots at the top right of a Shorts grid on your Home feed. Unfortunately, this will only be the case temporary shows you less Shorts, but it’s better than nothing, we think.