# Control Panel for YouTube — user reviews > 31 indexed App Store user reviews of Control Panel for YouTube by J BUCHANAN & L.J BUCHANAN, rated 3.90/5 from 7 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/control-panel-for-youtube/id6478456678/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/control-panel-for-youtube/id6478456678.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 4 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 1 ## Newest reviews (11 of 31) ### 4/5 — そこだけ残念 *2026-03-11* 高評価と低評価をモバイルでも非表示にしたい ### 4/5 — 良い *2026-01-12* ショート動画を無駄に見ずに済むので助かってます！ 「コメントのいいね数を非表示にする機能」 「動画の視聴回数を非表示にする機能」 があれば最高です！ ### 4/5 — Très bien ! *2025-09-11* Je n’ai pas compris pourquoi l’extension n’avait qu’une évaluation et qu’elle soit à une étoile. Le fait qu’aucun commentaire n’ait été laissé n’aide pas. Peut-être s’attendait-t-il/elle a une application ? Ce n’est ici qu’une extension Safari, mais elle fait très bien le job. Il n’y a qu’une fonction qui déconne, c’est l’arrêt de la lecture automatique des vidéos. Tout le reste est nickel, et j’utilise Stop The Madness pour l’autoplay. Il manque encore des choses, il manque une certaine granularité dans le contrôle de la barre de gauche, mais sans ça l’application fait vraiment le boulot. UnTrap ralentissait énormément YouTube pour moi, ce n’est pas le cas de Control panel for YouTube. Pas déçu. ### 5/5 — Great Extension! *2025-08-14* It’s a great extension, but can you please add the option to not auto-translate the titles of videos? There are extensions like this for other browsers but not Safari. You already have the option to use the original audio, please add the option to use the original title. Thank you! ### 4/5 — Doesn’t hide comments, works otherwise *2025-05-03* I saw that the developer of the google AI overview blocker app made this, so decided to try it out. I mainly got this app to see if I could hide comment sections, since I spend too much time interacting with those. There is an option to hide them. I’ve toggled it on and off, made sure the extension is enabled in settings and safari, and checked my wifi. Sadly, this feature does not work. However, I tried out several of the other features, like hiding recommendations and ads, and they all work perfectly. I would like it more if hiding comments worked, but I would still recommend this app as the dozens of other features definitely provide your money’s worth. ### 5/5 — Very good developer *2025-03-12, version 1.6.0* App works perfectly. Developer is very active, constant updates for both YT and Twitter app. Hope for FB app :). ### 5/5 — Worth *2024-11-14, version 1.3.0* Good app if you use YouTube on Safari ### 4/5 — Don’t *2024-11-13* 「チャンネルを非表示」を使いたいが、どこからやるのかわからない ### 5/5 — Never left an app review before, so happy! *2024-10-06* You guys have no idea how long I wanted to get rid of the algormitic short form content on YouTube, I had to delete every app on my phone, instagram, Facebook, etc. The only app I actually need is YouTube so I can watch videos and stuff sometimes but I kept finding myself scrolling through the shorts, finally theres a solution for this thank you guys so much for developing this! ### 5/5 — Sehr hilfreich! *2024-08-15* Nachdem ich die kostenpflichtige Erweiterung für X/Twitter gekauft hatte, nun auch noch die für YouTube. Was soll ich sagen? Es ist etwas, von dem ich nicht dachte, dass ich es brauchte und ohne vermutlich nicht mehr YouTube bzw. X nutzen möchte. Ich hoffe die Erweiterung wird in der Qualität fortgeführt und Änderungen aktualisiert. Vielen Dank dafür! PS: "Full size theater" funktioniert nicht. Weder sofort, noch nach dem Neuladen der Seite bleibt das Video im normalen Modus. ### 5/5 — YYESSSSSSS *2024-08-06* I am so sick and tired of algorithmic content in YT and twitter, and today I discovered and my mind is at ease. I have been fine tuning my yt and twitter experiences for SOO long, and this and the twitter control panel as well make it feel like I’m in H E A V E N. THANK YOU SO MUCH JB!! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — 使えなくなった *2025-07-21* 広告ブロッカーの禁止と出るようになったぞ ### 1/5 — 返品 *2025-06-04* コメント非表示がまともに機能しない。 即返品しました。 ### 2/5 — Does not work properly. *2026-03-28* So there are options to set the number of videos in a row on the home page, the options don’t show correctly in the extension, so you have to guess the option to sho “5 videos per row” for example. If you figure that out, then it breaks if you want to show shorts as well, so it goes back to showing 3 videos per row regardless of your settings. For an app that you have to pay for, it is unreliable. ### 2/5 — Stopped working *2026-02-07* Worked great until about 3 days ago. Youtube must have updated site to block this extension. Now, no option to sort by date at all. Waste of $$ ### 2/5 — Currently not working - iOS 26 *2025-09-13* Worked like a charm prior to more recent iOS 26 updates. Currently it only works by toggling the extension on/off manually every time on each separate window/instance of YouTube. ### 2/5 — Sehr Bedenklich *2024-03-21* Irgenwie probleme mit der Deinstalation es werden bei entfernen rest daten erkannt diew ich nicht entfernen kann. Wegen Datenschutz was die App benötigt auch sehr bedenklich das das Programm Passwörter lesen kann wie Kreditkarten infos **Developer response:** Hallo Redzgarus, um Control Panel for YouTube vollständig zu deinstallieren, sollten Sie Control Panel for YouTube einfach aus den Programmen in den Papierkorb ziehen können. Die Warnung, die Safari unter „Einstellungen“ → „Erweiterungen“ anzeigt, ist eine allgemeine Warnung, die für alle Erweiterungen angezeigt wird, unabhängig davon, was sie tun. Sie soll Sie davon abhalten, potenziell schädlichen Erweiterungen die Berechtigung zu erteilen, auf sensiblen Seiten wie solchen, die möglicherweise Felder für Passwort- und Kreditkarteneingaben enthalten, zu laufen. Control Panel for YouTube läuft nur auf YouTube und ändert nur, was auf YouTube angezeigt wird – trotz der Warnung kann es nicht auf Ihre sensiblen Daten wie gespeicherte Passwörter und Kreditkarten zugreifen. ### 3/5 — Partly functional *2026-04-16* Great app idea and setting options! However, it only works for the current session, so as soon as you refresh or open the website on a new tab, your current settings are ignored (especially the AI ones)! Fix that and you'll have a gem! ### 3/5 — Background play doesn’t work *2025-10-01* The 2 main features I need: 1 - remove shorts 2 - allow background play I pay for YouTube to avoid ads, but shorts are toxic so I can’t use the YouTube app. Instead I use browsers. I’d prefer to stay in Safari (hence grabbing this tool) but sadly background playback doesn’t work, so for now I need to stick with Brave ### 3/5 — Hiding comments not working *2025-06-03* Otherwise would be really good. I’m trying to see less comments from online people. ### 4/5 — Essential App *2026-04-19* Brilliant app that helps avoid the algorithm and make Youtube actually usable. Frequent updates too! PLEASE add iCloud setting sync though! As more settjngs have been added, it's a pain to set it up on multiple devices every update. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — 星五！言うことなし！ *2026-06-29* 増やしてくれてありがとうございます！ ### 5/5 — 買ってよかった！ *2026-06-27* iphone 17e、iOS 26.5.1です。 ①特定チャンネルブロック ②ショート非表示 ③バックグラウンド再生 上記の3機能が目的でこのアプリを導入しました。 ずっと欲しかった機能がこの価格の買い切りで導入できるなんて最高です！ 本当にありがとうございます！ ### 5/5 — This is something that I needed *2026-06-01* This extension really resolves almost everything that I complained about Youtube. Well done. ### 5/5 — NICE! *2026-05-30* Finally! Found a replacement for untrap! All the functions are actually working and clearly indicated which function need to be login to be functional. ### 5/5 — Can’t live without this *2026-02-23* Yeah ### 5/5 — Worth every penny *2026-02-18* The main reason that I decided to try this extension was to (1) force all YT videos into theater mode by default, and more importantly (2) stretch those videos to take up the entire viewport (the full window Safari window, but not full screen). Happy to say that this is the first extension I’ve found which does both perfectly. But then I stated exploring all of the other capabilities, and this is where I was truly amazed. Happy that I can now remove shorts from Home, remove music playlists from home, remove videos I’ve already watched (a certain % of) from home, and display full video titles (non-truncated) on home. Probably a lot more that I’ll find through continued experimentation. ### 5/5 — Works just fine *2025-10-31* Bought it here to support the dev instead of ko-fi like suggested in ko-fi description. I strongly recommend ! Request : being able again to scroll down to see the comments while in full screen on Firefox plz Mr Buchanan ty ! ### 5/5 — Excellent, won’t use YouTube without it! *2025-09-16* Love this plugin, really helps me not fall into the YouTube algorithm rabbit hole. Highly recommend! ### 5/5 — ありがとうございます *2025-09-16* 今まで使えていたのだけれど、今日あたりからおすすめやショートが表示されてるようになってしまった。おま環なのかな…残念 追記(9月16日) 元に戻りました！早急な改善、感謝いたします。 ### 5/5 — アプリでは使えません！Safariのみ *2025-08-24* うっとうしいショート動画が綺麗に消えて快適です 3点ボタンからチャンネルブロックもできて嬉しい たまに仕様変更でショート動画がまた表示されるようになりましたが、対応してくれました！ --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-14.*