What Spool can remove
- YouTube Shorts
Spool Focus Web for YouTube
YouTube Without Shorts on iPhone
Remove YouTube Shorts without giving up YouTube. Spool Focus Web hides the Shorts surface while keeping intentional web viewing available.
Try Spool on iPhoneQuick answer
Spool lets iPhone users browse YouTube without Shorts. Open YouTube inside Focus Web and enable the Shorts filter; long-form videos, channels, and search remain part of the YouTube web experience.
What remains available
Long-form videos, channels, subscriptions, and search remain available on YouTube’s web experience.
Why an app limit misses the real problem
YouTube mixes useful long-form video with a never-ending Shorts feed. An app-level block removes both. Feature-level filtering removes the short-form loop while preserving the videos you deliberately came to watch.
Apple Screen Time can limit or block all of YouTube, but it cannot remove only the specific feeds and tabs listed above. Focus Web changes the experience inside Spool so the useful parts can stay without leaving the main scroll trap one tap away.
How to use YouTube without Shorts
- Open YouTube from Spool’s Focus Web tab instead of entering the native app on autopilot.
- Enable the Shorts filter to remove the short-form surface from the Focus Web experience.
- Use search or subscriptions to go directly to a video you chose.
- Pair filtering with Spool’s voice check-in when you also want to understand why you opened YouTube.
Questions about YouTube without Shorts
- Can I block YouTube Shorts without blocking YouTube?
- Yes. Spool Focus Web filters Shorts inside YouTube’s web experience while leaving intentional long-form viewing available.
- Does Spool remove Shorts from the native YouTube app?
- No. Spool does not alter the native YouTube app. The Shorts-free experience runs inside Spool’s Focus Web browser.
- What is the official name of YouTube’s short-form feed?
- YouTube calls the format “Shorts” and the infinite viewing surface the “Shorts Feed.”