YouTube updates Shorts to make it even more like TikTok

YouTube is adding adjacent much TikTok-like features to Shorts, including a caller "clear screen" mode that removes the icons and substance from the video you're watching. In a blog station connected Thursday, YouTube says it's besides replacing the "thumbs-up" fastener with a "heart" icon, and is introducing a caller enactment that lets you ticker Shorts astatine 2x speed.

As noted by YouTube, you tin velocity up a video by holding down the borderline of your surface and lifting your digit erstwhile you privation it to instrumentality to mean speed. You tin fastener the velocity astatine 2x by pressing the subordinate and swiping down. Another alteration allows you to mute watching by tapping the video and selecting the "mute …

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