As per YouTube:

“Creators on iOS: We’re beginning to roll out Shorts thumbnail choice to your gadgets. The power to decide on a body out of your Quick for use because the video’s thumbnail will likely be obtainable to everybody within the coming weeks.”

To be clear, creators can already select a thumbnail for his or her Shorts inside YouTube Studio, however this new course of makes it doable inside the in-app add circulation, which may assist to streamline your course of.

To pick a thumbnail body in your Shorts:

• Document or import a video with the Shorts digital camera then navigate to the ultimate add display
• Faucet the pencil icon that’s overlaid over the thumbnail of your video
• Scrub alongside your video’s timeline to choose a thumbnail then hit ‘Performed’
• Add your Quick

YouTube says that it’s presently not doable to vary the thumbnail after your Quick has been uploaded, however it’s trying so as to add this performance in future.

Shorts has turn out to be a serious focus for YouTube, with the app now facilitating 50 billion views of Shorts content material day by day. Greater than 1.5 billion YouTube customers additionally eat short-form content material within the app each month, and YouTube’s working to maximise alternatives for short-form creators, because it seems to be to lean into evolving content material traits.

That might turn out to be much more urgent if TikTok is banned within the US. If that occurs, many TikTok refugees will likely be left in search of a brand new residence, and YouTube may effectively present one of the best alternatives, and essentially the most comparable creation instruments and choices in-app.

As such, it is sensible for YouTube to proceed refining and enhancing its Shorts instruments, with this being one other small replace in its broader course of.

The Shorts thumbnail replace is rolling out to all creators on iOS from at this time.