Block YouTube Shorts on iPhone Safari
Install the app, turn on its Safari extension and YouTube in Safari loses its Shorts.
UnLoop for iPhone blocks YouTube Shorts in Safari. After you install the app and turn on its Safari extension, UnLoop hides Shorts from your YouTube feeds and opens Shorts links in the normal player, and both are free.
A phone is always within reach, which makes a quick look at YouTube easy to turn into a long scroll. This is for anyone who watches YouTube in Safari on an iPhone.
UnLoop works in Safari, not inside the YouTube app. To use it, watch YouTube in Safari.
Turn on the UnLoop Safari extension
These steps are general, not a screen by screen guide. Menu names change between iOS versions, so follow the names you see on your iPhone.
- Get UnLoop from the App Store.
- Find UnLoop in the Safari extension settings on your iPhone and turn it on.
- Open YouTube in Safari. The home feed should have no Shorts shelf.
If you still see Shorts:
- Make sure YouTube is open in Safari, not in the YouTube app.
- Check that UnLoop is still turned on in the Safari extension settings.
- Reload the page.
Where UnLoop works on iPhone
UnLoop for iPhone is a Safari extension. It changes the YouTube pages Safari shows you.
- Watching in Safari: Shorts shelves are hidden from feeds, and a Shorts link opens the regular watch page.
- YouTube in Safari: Pro hides suggested videos and comments.
Without UnLoop
With UnLoop
What is free on iPhone
Both features below are free on iPhone, and neither needs Pro.
- Hide Shorts from feeds
- Removes Shorts shelves and videos that link to Shorts from the lists YouTube shows, such as home, search results and subscription grids.
- Open Shorts links in the normal player
- Redirects a Shorts link to the regular watch page so the video plays like any other.
Pro adds more tools on iPhone and Mac, and one Apple subscription covers both.
See the App Store subscription screen for price and terms.
What UnLoop leaves out on iPhone
- The YouTube app. Its Shorts tab stays where it is.
- The Shorts tab. Hide the Shorts tab is Chrome only, so it is not available on iPhone.
What UnLoop collects on iPhone
- Extension and apps
- The extension and apps collect no data and use no third-party tracking.
- This website
- This website uses Vercel Web Analytics, which records anonymous page views and install-button clicks, without cookies.
Questions about UnLoop on iPhone
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Install UnLoop on iPhone
Start with the iPhone app, or add UnLoop in the other places you watch.
Hiding Shorts is free in Chrome and in Safari on iPhone and Mac.
Free, in Chrome.
Free to hide Shorts in Safari. Pro adds focus mode and schedules.
Free to hide Shorts in Safari. One Pro subscription covers iPhone and Mac.