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YouTube updates Shorts to make it even more like TikTok

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Similar to TikTok’s ‘clear mode,’ a new ‘clear screen’ feature will remove the clutter from the video you’re watching. Similar to TikTok’s ‘clear mode,’ a new ‘clear screen’ feature will remove the clutter from the video you’re watching. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. YouTube is adding even more TikTok-like features to Shorts, including a new “clear screen” mode that removes the icons and text from the video you’re watching. In a blog post on Thursday, YouTube says it’s also replacing the “thumbs-up” button with a “heart” icon, and is introducing a new option that lets you watch Shorts at 2x speed. As noted by YouTube, you can speed up a video by holding down the edge of your screen and lifting your finger when you want it to return to normal speed. You can lock the speed at 2x by pr

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