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YouTube Shorts adds clear screen mode and heart icon
YouTube is updating Shorts with a clear screen mode that hides icons and text, replacing the thumbs-up button with a heart icon. The changes, announced in a blog post, aim to make Shorts more like TikTok. The new features are rolling out to users on mobile devices.
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YouTube continues to play catch-up with TikTok, but these incremental tweaks won't change the fundamental challenge of differentiating its short-form video platform.
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