YouTube is useful when you know what you came for: a tutorial, a lecture, a repair video, a music performance, or a link someone sent you. YouTube Shorts are different. They turn the site into an infinite feed.
Scrolless is built for that difference. It lets you keep useful YouTube behavior in Safari while blocking the Shorts and recommendation surfaces that are easiest to overuse.
What Scrolless can block on YouTube
Scrolless can block YouTube Shorts and other distracting feed-like surfaces in Safari. The point is to keep intentional use available while making casual scrolling harder to fall into.
Block the feed, not the useful link. You can still open specific videos, search when you need something, and use YouTube with a purpose.
Why this works better in Safari
The YouTube app is optimized for habit. Safari gives you a little distance from that habit, and Safari extensions can add rules that the native app does not allow. Scrolless uses that opening to remove the surfaces you are trying to avoid.
How to block YouTube Shorts on iPhone
- Install Scrolless from the App Store.
- Enable the Safari extension.
- Configure YouTube in Scrolless.
- Use youtube.com in Safari when you need YouTube.
No account, no tracking, no subscription
Scrolless runs locally as a Safari extension. It does not require an account, does not collect browsing history, and does not use ads or tracking. The app has a free 7-day trial and a one-time unlock.
Keep YouTube useful. Block Shorts.
Try Scrolless free for 7 days, then unlock it once for $4.99. No subscription, no account, no tracking.
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