You can turn off Youtube shorts
You can now go into your profile settings and set your daily time limit for YouTube Shorts to exactly 0 minutes to all users on iOS and Android.
Once activated, it entirely hides the dedicated Shorts tab and removes the short vertical videos from your home screen feed.
If you try to access a Short, you just get a static message saying the feed is paused for the day.
YouTube has been testing this with parental controls for supervised accounts, but have released it to everyone. This is great cause I hardly used it and their recommendation algo was really bad.