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Monthly roundup from the YouTube Creators channel
YouTube Creators monthly roundup
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Latest YouTube updates
Updates from the past four weeks
YouTube app
- Moving 'Remix' for videos to Share menu: We're moving the Remix button from below the main video player into the Share menu to help simplify the viewer experience and make it easier to navigate. To find Remix features, just tap the Share icon
and select Remix to find all of the same tools that you use today. Learn more.
and select Remix to find all of the same tools that you use today. Community and comments
- Channel guidelines now available globally: Creators can now set up to three channel guidelines to set the tone for their community. Guidelines appear to viewers across comments, live chat and Community posts. Learn more.
Previous YouTube updates
Updates from the past six months
March 2026
YouTube Studio
- Suggested comments to heart feature: We're adding a heart suggestions feature in the Studio mobile app. This feature identifies 'heart-worthy' comments to help creators more easily show appreciation for viewers. Learn more.
Live streaming
- Live stream while playing YouTube Playables: Playables are now available as a mini-activity on mobile vertical live streams, making it easy to play games directly on YouTube while interacting with viewers. This feature is currently available in certain countries for selected Playables. Learn more.
February 2026
YouTube Studio
- Studio mobile app update: The Studio mobile app versions 24.04 and below will not be supported starting 23 February 2026. Download the latest version from the Play Store or App Store to continue using the app.
December 2025
YouTube Shorts
- Trends page in Shorts launched globally: The Trends page in Shorts is now available to all creators. From the Shorts Feed, press pause, then tap Trends at the top to find trending audio and inspiration for your next video personalised for you.
- Add motion to photos in Shorts: 'Make me move' is a new feature for creating Shorts that uses AI to animate a photo of yourself to move like one of our preset movements. Pick a movement, like a karate combo, upload a photo of yourself and watch it turn into a Short. This feature is available globally in the YouTube app, excluding countries in the European Union and the UK. Learn more.
- Studio app OS requirement: The latest YouTube Studio app only works on Android 11.0 or higher and iOS 17 or higher. Learn how to update the Studio app.
November 2025
YouTube Shorts
- Featured places in Shorts update: We're adding featured places to Shorts, which use both creator-tagged and auto-tagged locations to highlight key places in the description of your Short. This will help your content to get discovered by viewers searching for Shorts about a specific location. You can adjust or opt out of auto-tagged locations in Studio. Learn more.
Community and comments
- Subscriber-only comments on videos: Creators can now limit comment posting on individual videos and Shorts to subscribers and paid channel members, previously available for live chat only. You can also set a minimum subscription time before a viewer can comment. This feature is designed to give creators more control over who can comment on their content. Learn more.
- Comment reply suggestions launched globally: AI-enhanced comment reply suggestions are now available to all creators. This feature provides suggestions in the style and tone of the creator's channel to help make it easier for you to respond to comments from your audience. Learn more.
YouTube Studio
- Comment summary feature: We added a comment summary feature in the Studio mobile app. This feature automatically summarises topics from comments on your video, making it easy to get valuable feedback without going through comments one by one. Learn more.
October 2025
YouTube Shorts
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Improved Shorts editor experience: You can now easily edit your individual video clips in context with other elements (audio, video, visual overlays) in your content. You can make precise adjustments and edits to the timing of each clip with zooming and snapping, rearrange or delete clips to create a rough cut, add music or timed text and preview your Short to help you better tell the story that you want to tell.
These are the first of more improvements planned to streamline in-app editing for Shorts. This change is now available on Android devices, and will gradually roll out to all creators in the coming weeks. Learn more.
Live streaming
- Stream in both horizontal and vertical formats: We're rolling out a setting that allows creators to go live in both horizontal and vertical formats at the same time. Turning on the setting creates a vertical crop of a horizontal live stream that shows up in the Shorts feed on the YouTube mobile app. This update will gradually roll out to all creators in the next few weeks, with more cropping options and third-party encoder compatibility for vertical layouts to come as future updates.
- 'Copyright' tab renamed as 'Content detection': Starting on 21 October 2025, the 'Copyright' tab in the left-hand menu on YouTube Studio will be renamed as 'Content detection'. The Copyright Match Tool will remain in this tab alongside the new Likeness detection tool for eligible users.
September 2025
Live streaming
- Automatic highlights for mobile live streams: Creators will now see a Short video automatically pulled from their live stream when the stream ends, making it easy to upload stream highlights to your channel. Learn more about eligibility here.
YouTube Studio
- New Collaborations feature: Invite up to five creators to be added as collaborators in your video. Each collaborator's name and a subscribe button for each channel will be shown once the collaborator accepts your invitation. Learn more.
- Studio mobile app update: The Studio mobile app versions 23.32 and below will not be supported starting on 3 September 2025. Download the latest version from the Play Store or App Store to continue using the app.
July 2025
YouTube Studio
- The Inspiration tab has been launched globally: The Inspiration tab is now available on the Content page in YouTube Studio on desktop in all global markets, including the United Kingdom, European Union and Switzerland. The Inspiration tab lets you explore ideas with the assistance of AI tools to brainstorm your next video. Learn more about the Inspiration tab.