# Detoxify - Short Block YT — user reviews

> 20 indexed App Store user reviews of Detoxify by Huong Nguyen, rated 2.50/5 from 4 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/detoxify-short-block-yt/id6740556197/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/detoxify-short-block-yt/id6740556197.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 1 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 2

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Doesn’t work

*2025-12-14, version 1.2*

Doesn’t work

### 1/5 — Resets itself anytime youtube is reloaded

*2025-07-09*

Any time you open youtube back up or relod the page, all your settings are disabled.

### 2/5 — Doesn’t work very well

*2026-03-18, version 1.2*

Works when i set it up but when i refresh the page the shorts button and shorts come back

### 2/5 — Barely Works, Not recommended

*2026-02-20*

Shorts button still visible, Shorts still play like normal. It is just able to remove Shorts recommendation from Homepage

### 2/5 — Works sometimes

*2026-02-11, version 1.2*

It removes almost all of the shorts but some still can be found after clicking under a video

### 2/5 — Stops working

*2025-06-17*

Automatically stops working after sometime

### 3/5 — Fine

*2026-01-18, version 1.2*

It does what it says well, but one aspect wich is bad hiding comments remove the clickable youtube logo (annoying) and the search bar will not be usuable :(

### 3/5 — Have to click “activate” each time

*2025-08-06, version 1.2*

Seems good and free, but doesn’t work as intended because I have to click on the extension in safari and click the activate button before it blocks YouTube shorts. Maybe I’m doing something wrong?

### 3/5 — Hide shorts button not working

*2025-06-15*

So every time I toggle on hide shorts button, shorts button disappears from my feed but after reloading it reappears

### 3/5 — Good start, but…

*2025-05-27*

Good idea and free option, but the shorts blocker doesn’t work at all as I can see shorts in the feed as well as watch them. Please keep trying!

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Perfect

*2025-12-04, version 1.2*

Just What i needed to gain back my time and be more mindfull about my YouTube videos consumption

### 5/5 — Bug shorts Button still here even is ON on iOS 18.5

*2025-07-26, version 1.2*

Free and work almost perfectly

### 5/5 — Top App

*2025-07-04, version 1.2*

App fenomenale, l’ho appena scaricata e funziona, blocca shorts e altro fantastica. 
Purtroppo però ho alcune riserve sulla privacy, non è chiaro quali dati vengano condivisi con terze parti, ci sono da correggere alcuni dettagli sulla gestione dei dati e opzioni per il controllo utente, in linea con il GDPR

### 5/5 — Thanks 🤩

*2025-07-04, version 1.2*

You saved years of my life

### 5/5 — Super, fonctionnel

*2025-06-19, version 1.2*

Parfait

### 4/5 — Autoplay is not getting blocked

*2026-08-07*

Please look into the matter otherwise it is really helpful also add a feature which prevents opening a channel only searched specific videos or playlists should be available

### 4/5 — Hide shorts button doesn’t work

*2026-06-24*

After page refresh it appears again

### 4/5 — عهع

*2025-09-13, version 1.2*

جميل

### 4/5 — It does almost what it claims

*2025-07-10*

Shorts button doesn’t disappear on iPad but still recommendations comments are gone …. Big help

### 4/5 — Was Sketched out at first, but does everything it promised!

*2025-05-21, version 1.2*

Good extension. I was just looking for youtube shorts blocker and this just takes the cake. And its free? Damn.

Edit: 
After using it for a bit, it was working just fine. But after a while, the disable autoplay feature stopped working?

edit:
After a few days, hiding the shorts button stopped working

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*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 2026-08-29.*