Credit: Lucas Gouveia / Android Police Published May 12, 2026, 3:20 AM EDT Sign in to your Android Police account YouTube has taken some controversial decisions in the last few years, inviting resentment from users. One such move was to introduce short-form video content on its platform. If that wasn't bad enough for users, the company didn't allow them to disable short-form videos on its platform. Google didn't hold firm in its decision not to allow disabling YouTube Shorts for long, though. Last month, the company quietly introduced a way to disable Shorts from the YouTube feed . However, this was in no way an indication that YouTube was reducing its focus on Shorts. In fact, the company seems to be putting more effort into making Shorts content more immersive. YouTube seems to have started testing a new Instagram-style feature for distraction-free Shorts viewing.…