Remove YouTube Shorts & Distractions – UnTrap
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Turn YouTube into a focused, distraction-free experience.
UnTrap turns YouTube into a clean, focused, and intentional space.
It removes distractions like Shorts, visual noise, and attention-grabbing UI elements,
so you can watch content without endless scrolling or interruptions.
UnTrap offers 250+ powerful features that let you fully customize
how YouTube looks and behaves — from layout and content filters to automation,
focus tools, and AI-powered summaries.
🧩 Shorts & scrolling, under control
Short videos are one of the biggest attention traps.
UnTrap lets you remove Shorts entirely or treat them as regular videos, so you stay in control without breaking your workflow.
You can disable Shorts, open them in the standard player, or keep them hidden for a cleaner interface.
🧹 Clean YouTube, less noise
Decide what stays and what goes.
Remove related videos, comments, suggestions, live chat, notifications, buttons, sidebars, and trending sections when they pull attention away.
Reduce visual noise by hiding thumbnails, overlays, promotions, and ad banners,
or even the Home feed entirely.
🤖 AI-powered understanding, not endless watching
Understand videos faster without watching everything.
Get instant AI video summaries with key insights, timestamps, and enhanced transcripts.
Jump directly to important moments, expand transcripts or descriptions, and save summaries for later — with multilingual support across content types.
🧠 A calmer focus experience
UnTrap is built as a gentle focus tool, not an aggressive blocker.
A calm interface and mindful controls help reduce overstimulation and support healthier viewing habits.
Many users rely on it as a lightweight digital detox tool — focused on control, not restriction.
⏱ Productivity & time awareness
Switch to Zen mode or a minimalist layout when working.
Use built-in time awareness tools to make YouTube intentional instead of automatic.
Whether you’re building productivity habits or simply trying to stay focused, UnTrap adapts to your workflow.
🎥 Player & playback, upgraded
Enjoy a distraction-free player with full-window viewing, resizable layout, and precise playback controls.
Adjust brightness, apply video filters, set default quality, loop content intelligently, or navigate playlists more efficiently.
🎨 Layout, UI & themes
Personalize YouTube with themes, cinema mode, or full-size theater mode.
Restore the old YouTube layout, use legacy list views, or switch to a minimal interface.
Small tweaks like disabling ambient lighting or improving in-page search refine everyday use.
🛡 Advanced filtering & safer viewing
Filter content, block unwanted videos or channels, mute topics,
and apply keyword-based rules to shape your feed.
UnTrap supports advanced content filtering and parental control tools to help build a safer, distraction-free environment.
⚙️ Automation & power tools
Save time with smart automation.
Disable autoplay, auto-skip video promotions, add intentional opening delays,
set default playback speed, enable fullscreen automatically,
redirect the Home page, and control YouTube with custom keyboard shortcuts.
YouTube adapts to you — not the other way around.
🌍 Works across devices
UnTrap works across desktop, mobile, and embedded YouTube players, making it a reliable YouTube enhancement wherever you watch.
Latest reviews
- Chris
- Doesn't work on Edge anymore :(
- V
- doesnt work in brave anymore
- Adam
- it doesnt work anymore, latest brave linux
- Francesco Vaccarella
- stopped working all of a sudden, reinstalling doesn't fix. I'm on Dia browser on macos 26
- Obie
- I've been using UnTrap for about a year and a half now, and it's made using YouTube so much more bearable for me. I especially like the ability to block infinite scrolling and shorts and make the thumbnails grayscale. One feature I'd like to suggest is the ability to turn off the AI summary and ask buttons, because I have never used them, and they just clutter up the screen. Otherwise I'm loving UnTrap. Keep up the good work ^_^
- David Švancar
- Hi, Thank you for this extremely useful extension - I'm finding YouTube pretty much unusable without it. In the current version (9.4) there are, however, some functionality issues. I haven't found any official issue tracker, so I'll leave my findings here: - In left navigation panel - section "library" gets hidden by default, and extension controls do nothing to affect this. - The same seems to be true for section "discover". - On video page, "centering" doesn't seem to work. Regardless of this, I'm really grateful for this extension, thanks again....
- James
- Insanely useful
- Ahmet Serdar Yakut
- Can we get "Columns" under "Subscriptions Page" tab too? New Youtube subscriptions page ui sux, thanks for the extension.
- Jore Dierckx
- First time I felt like reviewing an app… this extension has changed my behavior soo much! It's the type of fine-grained settings that make it work for. My startpage is blank now, the thumbnails have a grey-filter and the suggestions are hidden. No more distraction, just me and my brain, thinking of good 'search-queries' again rather then doomscrolling trash-content.
- KeinSent YT
- It did wut unhook doesn't seem working in my pc: "Hide Suggestions in the video end" THANK YOU!
- Vns printing
- its awesome 😭😲🙏
- Tom
- latest version seems have some problem. for example, i wanna hide this one, but it hides other one.
- Oleg Lopes
- Amazing. One of the best extensions there is. Devs are quick to fix issues too!
- Alexander Weitz
- EDIT: Fixed after a day THANK YOU Stopped working today please fix. This extension is worthy of five stars when working!!!
- incensive
- Thank you for fixing the issue so fast! I love having this in my extensions :) It helps a lot with removing distractions
- abhishek tandon
- Fixed in a day! Working after reinstall :) Thanks to the developers!
- Shreyas S
- Reinstalling the extension fixed the issue.
- what the heck
- ITS FIXED LETS GOOOOOO
- Ward Gesthuizen
- It worked amazingly, but it stopped working since yesterday :( Edit: And they fixed it in a day :)
- 笑顔の侍
- This extension has been great for cleaning up my YouTube feed, but it suddenly stopped working today. Related videos and other elements are showing up again. It looks like many other users are having the same problem based on recent reviews. Could you please fix this bug? Update: The bug has been fixed, so I've changed my rating to 5 stars. Thanks for the quick response!
- Ankit
- bruhhh; no longer works
- Siddharth Veluswamy
- yes stopped working since today. Please fix.
- Maazin Muhammed cv
- This was my favorite extension because of how much customization it had. The option to disable infinite scrolling was amazing and something I haven’t seen anywhere else. It’s not working now, and YouTube feels overwhelming again. Please fix it—this extension is the best.
- Burger Chicken
- stopped working idk why, seems like lots of other ppl have same issue
- summer dry
- was my fave but stopped working 😢 hope it gets fixed..
- Asad Nayyer
- Please fix it, it's amazing.
- Aryan Maheshwary
- your app is life changing. but after the update it has stopped working.
- Danil Salnikov
- It doesn't work sadly.
- Omar
- It was going well but after a few days the settings was not working and I can not block youtbe shorts. Any way I can get in touch with the help team.
- OnionMaster69
- was amazing but stopped working today sadly for everyone
- Abdallah
- This extension is literally amazing, it removes me from the political and bad news slop, but it has stopped working, can you please update it?
- janisek
- Doesn't work anymore I guess, it needs an update
- Radhika Nath
- A lovely extension it has always been but it stopped working today. Why is it not working?
- Sreepad Vishnu Govind
- stopped working today. pls fix it.
- Daren Darnell
- Stopped working, if anyone has alternatives then drop them please!!!
- Max Best
- stopped working. such a banger extension it's a shame. pls fix devs we all want it
- Aryan
- why this isnt hiding shorts anymore?
- Pedro Henrique Nunes França
- RIP Extension
- Tanuj Kumar
- Mine stopped working today... It was wonderful extension.
- Aria
- Stopped working today
- yaseen mohammed
- is it just me or is it not working anymore? i used to hide all the videos on the home page- even tho ive switched on the hide suggestions button on home page it dosent seem to work? is it broken? because up until now ive been using it but suddenly today is refuses to work
- Khang
- Nice extension with the lastest updates
- Jordan
- Awesome. This is what i want
- sarmad aziz
- Hi, thanks for the app, have been using it for a while. Where can i report a small bug? When i go to "left navigation bar" and have 'hide subscription section' toggled on, it also hides the library section as of recent. I reinstalled it again, but the issue persists. Im on windows 10, using chrome.
- Youri Post
- Fantastic!
- Dead Scrub
- The extension is great! Also can you please add the option to block shorts on the search page as well.
- Ислам Берсаев
- Perfect
- Bach Dien Than Kuan
- Exactly what I need for a simply youtube player, no mix playlist, no distract. Five star (y)
- Lily McCann-Klausz
- Absolutely love this extension and all the customization!! Can you guys make an update that hides the AI summary as well as the video suggestions when you swipe up?
- Nikolas Virintzakis
- Amazing, insane amount of options