{"id":969269,"date":"2025-10-24T10:46:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T05:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=969269"},"modified":"2025-10-24T10:46:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T05:16:04","slug":"youtube-brings-a-new-feature-to-stop-you-from-endlessly-scrolling-shorts-heres-how-it-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/24\/youtube-brings-a-new-feature-to-stop-you-from-endlessly-scrolling-shorts-heres-how-it-works\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube brings a new feature to stop you from endlessly scrolling Shorts: here&#8217;s how it works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve all been there: you open a small, insignificant Short on YouTube and suddenly you have lost an hour scrolling through videos on topics you probably don&#8217;t even want to see. To curb this behavior, YouTube has introduced a new timer feature that allows users to manage the time they spend viewing Shorts.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bAs the name suggests, the Timer feature allows users to set a daily time limit for how long they can scroll Shorts on the mobile version of the YouTube app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve all been there: you open a small, insignificant Short on YouTube and suddenly you have lost an hour scrolling through videos on topics you probably don&#8217;t even want to see. To curb this behavior, YouTube has introduced a new timer feature that allows users to manage the time they spend viewing Shorts. \u200bAs the name suggests, the Timer feature allows users to set a daily time limit for how long they can scroll Shorts on the mobile version of the YouTube app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}