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Press Ctrl+M to hide or show the YouTube video player controls.
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When you pause a YouTube video, the player controls don't disappear. That makes it really hard to take a clean screenshot of the video. The controls also block your view, which can get really annoying. Hyde is a simple Chrome extension that allows you to hide or show the video player controls easily.
⭐ Simply use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+M to hide the controls or show them again. ⭐
Latest reviews
- (2025-07-27) Duwindu Tharinda: It worked perfectly until recently where youtube started to push a new clunky player design into beta test. your plugin still does good as long as I watch videos on the in-page player, but when I'm fullscreen, hyde doesn't know how to hide the thumbnails of "MORE VIDEOS" peeking from the under side. Hyde blocks the title bar, player controls and all that jazz, but this new addition of "new videos" shelf that can be dragged up by a mouse gesture or key V, but is protruding in the normal state as long as the player controls are supposed to be visible.
- (2025-07-20) Jan BRINDA: Didn't work at first. Only muted audio. Thanks to @Ehinomen Justin: "To get the extension working all you just need to do is to go to your browser's extension shortcut page and set "hide/show controls" to Ctrl + M"
- (2025-07-19) Miłosz Świniarski: didnt work
- (2025-07-15) Ehinomen Justin: When I downloaded the extension on edge it didn't work. Instead the edge browser would just simply mute the tab whenever I pressed ctrl + M. This led me on a wild goose chase to try disabling the specific ctrl + M shortcut in group policy settings and whatnot. To get the extension working all you just need to do is to go to your browser's extension shortcut page and set "hide/show controls" to Ctrl + M. Man what a pain
- (2025-07-15) Reed Henderson: Can you make this for mozzila I am switching due to manifest 3 changes
- (2025-07-13) Nihat Berksu Özsoy: Perfect.
- (2025-07-05) john bank: Works great for me, ( Chrome on Windows 7 )
- (2025-07-01) Samm: Doesn't work anymore
- (2025-06-30) Dash “Dashie” blue: You're a King, thank you
- (2025-06-29) Tanya Nunart: Easy to use. Sometime didn't show bar in one click but not that often and easily fixed.
- (2025-06-23) bubba dam: It used to work but not now, so I got a certain AI to make a user script for me that works as a replacement made even better.
- (2025-06-16) Anika: Kinda works, but it still shows the progress bar on Chrome for me.
- (2025-06-13) Juan Rodriguez: it works very well on Chrome, but i recently changed to Brave and it doesn't work here, can it be updated or is there an alternative?
- (2025-06-10) K B: How to make it work on Brave : RIght click on the Hyde extension icon in toolbar, select "Manage Extension", click on "Keyboard Shortcuts" from the left side menu list on your screen, click the edit icon for "hide/show controls", press the "Ctrl+M" keys on your keyboard. Ensure it is shown as Ctrl+M in the textbox and you are good to go! It works as expected.
- (2025-06-07) Lolek Kekelov: Worked perfectly until recently, now it doesn't do anything :( Update: Nevermind, it works just fine with videos when they have regular youtube links, but not when they have 'live' in the link.
- (2025-06-03) Sarcasmo Gamer: Very good Extension. I just have one complain, can you add a way to change the default hotkey "Ctrl+M" with any other combination of keys? or at least a set of options to choose. My problem is that in Brave the "Ctrl+M" is also used to mute the current browser tab. So Brave takes in consideration first the default option to mute the tab and totally ignores the extension.
- (2025-06-01) Noah Orton: Awesome tool, thank you!
- (2025-05-27) Will Work: doesn't work. Pressing ctrl+M nothing happens
- (2025-05-27) Pete: Works perfectly.. well maintained. Rare need served by this extension but author is dedicated and it never fails my need to get a clean screenshot without the normal HUD.
- (2025-05-26) Jac YT: Hello, it works fine on Google Chrome but I hope it will be added to MS Edge as well as I use it more often. Thank you for this!
- (2025-05-16) Ayush: searching the site for 1 year
- (2025-05-12) KoleckO LP: doesn't work.
- (2025-05-06) TECHNOSOFT: Awesome. Thanks!
- (2025-04-27) Sergio Rodrigo Fernandez Testa: Amazing, just what I needed!
- (2025-04-26) Ehab Herz 2: very useful, thanks🙏
- (2025-04-25) Emma S.: Works perfectly for me! As others have said, you need to go to the Keyboard Shortcuts page in Extensions and set the shortcut.
- (2025-04-21) Anthony Lester: As others are saying it still leaves the red progress bar.
- (2025-04-14) Victor Andersson: Awesome extensions! Love this!!!
- (2025-04-06) Taha: great, on microsoft edge you need to set the shortcut in order to the extension to work properly
- (2025-04-02) GippyHappy: Works amazing!
- (2025-03-25) taktak altaktak: On Edge this works too, you need to set the hot key in edge://extensions/shortcuts (for Example: Ctrl+M). Thanks Екатерина
- (2025-03-24) Sam Musson: Doesn't work for me
- (2025-03-20) EenMagnetron: doesnt work at all
- (2025-03-20) Mohammad Ayyub: great it does what it promised like a charm. love you dude whoever made this
- (2025-03-16) Neil Pugh: Does what it says. Great asset. Sad this has to be created because YouTube doesn't just let you hide the controls. Really appreciate this, cheers.
- (2025-03-10) Екатерина: on Edge this works too, you need to set the hot key in edge://extensions/shortcuts
- (2025-03-09) Nhat Ngo: It works. You need to change the shortcut key.
- (2025-03-05) Karol: Does not work.
- (2025-02-21) drollum: While in Brave Browser I had to set the toggle hotkey, after that it worked simply and properly. rightclick topright extensions icon > Manage Extensions > leftbar Keyboard shortcuts > hyde, hide/show controls, edit icon
- (2025-02-20) Gilberto Júnior: The time bar continues appearing.
- (2025-02-13) David Besen: Works fine for me 2/12/2025 on Chrome 132.0.6834.197.
- (2025-02-09) My Name: Worked great for me! Though I do wish it would move the channel watermark back to its standard position once the player controls have been hidden.
- (2025-02-09) zhiping yuchi: Does not work
- (2025-02-06) Dr. Aadi Redempt: Extremely useful love it fabulous for students and also for those who take notes through yt videos
- (2025-01-22) Walsh Plumbing Heating & Cooling: control + M = Mute Ladies and Gentlemen How does this have 4.2 stars?
- (2025-01-14) TZ X: Hey brother, there is a problem with the shortcut key of this plugin, Ctrl+M will only mute the video, can you change it?
- (2025-01-11) Milko Gonzalez: Suddenly it stop working. I have to disable this options: Automatically allow access on the following sites http://*.youtube.com/* https://*.youtube.com/* Now it works.
- (2025-01-11) Shafayet: works just change the shortcut to ctrl+b
- (2025-01-05) Zoran: does not hide the seek bar, still helpful though
- (2025-01-02) Furious Joegan: Abso-f***ing-lutely does not work.