YouTube Shorts will soon be available on PCs and iPads.
The shift is scheduled to happen in the next weeks.
YouTube Shorts, a short-video format segment of YouTube, is now available on PCs and tablets. Earlier, only cell phones could reach the section, therefore consumers couldn’t watch Shorts videos on PCs, tablets, or Smart TVs. Now that Google has announced support for computers and tablets, it appears that Smart TVs may have been unable to watch Short clips for the time being.
The shift is scheduled to happen within the next weeks. This is great news for tablet and desktop consumers, as several people prefer to consume material on bigger screens rather than on their smartphones.
It’s unclear how implementation would be organized in the YouTube experience for computers and tablets, which differs from the YouTube dashboard for smartphones, which has its own area dedicated to YouTube Shorts. Desktop users are expected to have a separate Shorts area featuring all Shorts clips in one place in the near future.
YouTube’s Short platform will also get a new tool dubbed ‘Cut.’ Cut is similar to TikTok’s ‘Stitch’ feature in that it allows users to add pieces of other people’s videos to their own. Users that do not want their clips to be merged in with other people’s videos could simply turn off the option.
Cut is scheduled to arrive first on Apple’s iOS devices, with Android users receiving it later this year.