There’s a Better Way to Watch YouTube on iPhone (Without the Algorithm or Shorts)

YouTube is a bit of a mess right now. It’s nowhere near as bad as Instagram or TikTok on this front, but it’s still easy to lose hours scrolling through YouTube videos and Shorts on your recommendation feed. The algorithm will get you at some point, no matter how hard you try. But there’s an alternative. A saner way to watch YouTube videos that you actually really do want to watch, without getting sucked into the YouTube black hole of recommended content. The answer you’ve been looking for is a third-party Watch Later app like Play . Play isn’t a fully-featured YouTube client (Google made sure to nerf all of those), but that’s actually a good thing. You use the app to find and sort videos you actually want to watch, without getting bothered by the algorithm. No comments, no feed, and yes, there’s an option to disable Shorts as well. Gather all your YouTube videos using the Play app The Play app can help you build your own watch later playlist that’s separate from YouTube itself. There’s no YouTube login here. You are free to save videos with multiple tags or folders. The point is to build a queue
Read More