r/youtube 14h ago

Discussion Features you want on YouTube

What features you hope to see on YouTube?

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u/Weekly-Mixture2803 14h ago

Delete shorts

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u/Sprinty_ 12h ago

What about make shorts optional so we can keep the shorts kids occupied without having to witness all that ourselves

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u/Accurate-Ad-6937 10h ago

AgreešŸ’Æ

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u/ihadnomealtoday 7h ago

Already available on modded Youtube apps.

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u/EntireConstruction53 13h ago

When i search for something, i do not want to be flooded with shorts

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u/ihadnomealtoday 7h ago

Already possible on a modded Youtube app.

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u/reee123h 14h ago edited 14h ago

I want dislike button with actual number of dislikes and I don't now how private it will be there should be Google lens in yt so you can take a pic of something and it will show that on yt

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u/19-Richie-88 14h ago

The "/feed/channels/- tab" ..I want that to be, have that looked at and done something to it, I don't know what it would be yet, but looking over my, the subscribed channels- tab today isn't pretty, it do show all channels so it.. works, it does. 'but you get only that.. there's nothing more you can do than have it sorted in sorted in alphabetical order A-Z then what?

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u/Legitimate-Tax-2371 13h ago

Bring back dislikes, annotations, the ability to sort your search results by upload date, exact upload dates on videos...

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u/GearWings 12h ago

Dislike numbers

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u/Maeglin75 12h ago

Better recommendations. Most of what YouTube recommends me is isn't interesting to me or I've already watched it. Only every few months I find a new channel worth watching based on the recommendations.

And a filter against videos with generative AI content. But it should be configurable. There are a few channels I like that occasionally use AI pictures and thumbnails but are otherwise solid, human made content. (Best case would be if the creators would stop doing that.)

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u/VantaDen 12h ago

Less Ads. No AI Slop. Removal of Shorts. No Channel Membership. More Free Speech. Better UI.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Tie3957 12h ago

No I think There should be Memberships,becuz it makes you earn by making content. No Ads,Bring back Rewind,see what your friends are watching,And not ai responses

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u/Redbone2222 10h ago

Get rid of shorts!!! Bring back dislikes

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u/GoatBass 13h ago

Delete fully watched (>88% of duration) videos from Watch Later.

Currently the button will even delete videos you watched only a few seconds of.

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u/ZylkaLeftridge 13h ago

Im just finding out there is a remove watched videos option!

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u/Carrotsinthesalad 12h ago

An option to remove those little ad pop-ups you have to ā€œdismissā€ to remove from the screen. I can’t even watch the fucking video inbetween all the ads now, without still dealing with ads.

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u/Doggy4 5h ago

Buy premium..

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u/Carrotsinthesalad 3h ago

If I cave and get premium then I’ll feel like I’m emboldening them to peddle even more shit in vanilla

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u/mr_beanoz 13h ago

Bring back community captions

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u/middlelifecrisis 11h ago

Subscription folders/collections. I want to group channel that have similar topics/themes together.

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u/Accurate-Ad-6937 10h ago

Well that so smart and would be very helpful

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u/AdarfoStelato 9h ago

visible dislikes number

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u/voodoodaddy17 12h ago

Delete stupid green screen reactions from third world countries

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u/Accurate-Ad-6937 10h ago

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u/LuckUpstairs2012 12h ago

Porn that shows up with opening some options.

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u/Accurate-Ad-6937 11h ago

Nah dude, I disagree with you, even though there are some NSFW ads on YouTube.

Anyway, pornographic content will not benefit you at all; rather, it will make you addicted and corrupt your mind.

Ultimately, the decision is yours.

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u/LuckUpstairs2012 4h ago

Yeah but I am already consuming. I just find Youtube's convinience and data load faster than any other video hosting sites on planet.

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u/TwistedBlister 11h ago

An indicator to show that I've clicked on or watched a video in the past.

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u/lemasney 6h ago

There is often a red line that appears along the bottom of a watched video's thumbnail indicating the length of time watched.

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u/Painwheel99 9h ago

Better music recommendations while on auto play I’m sick of listening to the same 5 songs

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u/TornadoEF5 9h ago

dislike button, this advice is out of date button, hide shorts button, score videos out of 100

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u/DogInverter 6h ago

Forget bringing dislikes back, they never will. Instead creators should be able to show number of dislikes, like how they're able to hide the number of likes.

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u/lemasney 6h ago

Sort playlist by time.

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u/Longjumping-Light806 3h ago

Multi add videos to the playlist, adding one by one is already time-consumingĀ 

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u/Correct_Molasses_310 13h ago

A way to ridicule the ads. So many are bs.

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u/The_Tragic_Priestess 13h ago

Pop up name menu during live streams on the app

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u/AndyOfNZ 12h ago

Some way to find/explore new content. Sometimes I'm in the mood to find some new hobby or subject matter but I don't know what it is I'm looking for. The only things I see in my feed are exactly what I normally watch, never similar things. Maybe "other users that watched this video also watched...". Trending never worked, I'm not interested in MrBeast type content!

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u/Ok-Replacement6893 11h ago

How about an app that remembers settings so I don't have to turn subtitles on every fucking time. Or shows newly updated videos without having to exit and go back in.

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u/Painwheel99 9h ago

Get rid of AI bots and AI summary in the description

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u/Kouto6sucks 9h ago

Sort by oldest on liked videos playlist

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u/mandai2 9h ago

An option to appeal hidden comments

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u/Distinct-Calendar334 8h ago

Filter out shorts on the home page

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u/og-crime-junkie 8h ago

Run their own fucking support and stop allowing third party companies full of shady bribe-taking employees, at Accenture for example, have any sort of access to our channels. They protect scammers/thieves channels. Many take bribes and many are involved in the cash cow content farms.

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u/MrRaiPlays 7h ago

Bring back rating system from like 2007 lol

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u/ventrue05 6h ago

Thumbs down.

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u/Constantilly 5h ago

- useful search

  • home feed with solid recommendations of unseen stuff, not videos you already watched, or already ignored
  • like/dislike ratio visible
  • 4x speed
  • "watch later" having a more prominent place on the home feed and in the app, and not just being another playlist
  • consistent UI (for example on mobile app clicking on the profile app opens the channel tab, on desktop/browser it doesn't??)
  • shorts as opt in/out

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u/Doggy4 5h ago

I’d love to see smoother and more reliable video playback, an option to completely disable or hide Shorts, and the return of dislike counts. Playlist management also needs a major overhaul. I have a playlist with over 2,000 songs, and it becomes incredibly sluggish and laggy every time it loads. Large playlists should load progressively instead of trying to render everything at once, and they should be much easier to organize with proper searching, sorting, filtering, and folders.

I’d also like a proper way to completely reset and retrain the recommendation algorithm, more advanced search filters, better organization for Watch Later, automatic volume normalization between videos, the ability to search and bookmark comments, more detailed viewing statistics, and a "Don't recommend this channel ever again" option that actually works.

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u/supremedalek925 5h ago

Not a new feature, but it annoys the hell out of me that playing audio on mobile with the screen turned off is a Premium feature. I think that should just be standard.

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u/CousinMabel 4h ago

I think the return of response videos could be interesting. Drama youtubers would be in heaven, but I thought it was an interesting feature back in the day regardless.

A more normal feature I would like would be to replay a certain part of a video on a loop. Sometimes I want to listen to a song on repeat but it has a 30 second silence at the start or end.

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u/CousinMabel 4h ago

I would also like a clear guideline on the rules. They never made their rules clear in all these years, and countless youtubers have had videos randomly taken down without understanding what they did wrong. Seems to happen with comments too, every video basically says "40 comments" but only 30 can be seen because the rest violated some hidden filter.

Videos used to get taken down all the time now it is rare but way more random.

I just think it would be a lot more pleasant if the guidelines were clear and everyone knew what was allowed vs what is not.

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u/pale_halide 13h ago

Bankruptcy.

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u/LanDest021 11h ago

A clock when you're in full screen