How to link to your latest YouTube Short automatically
Add ?shorts to your permanent link. latestyoutu.be/@yourhandle?shorts always opens your newest Short in YouTube’s Shorts player, and it stays the same when you post the next one.
Create your Shorts link
Type your handle
Type your YouTube handle into the field above. The link already ends with
?shorts.Copy it
Tap Copy. It is free and needs no account.
Check it once
Tap the link: it opens your newest Short. After your next Short it opens that one.
Details worth knowing
Which Short it opens
The newest one on the Shorts tab of your channel. Regular videos and livestreams are left out.
No Shorts yet
Until you post your first Short, the link opens the Shorts tab of your channel.
Open in the YouTube app
Switch on ?app above. Inside Instagram and Facebook, visitors then get an “Open in the YouTube app” button, so the Short plays in the app, where they can like and subscribe.
Videos and Shorts side by side
The same link without ?shorts opens your newest full-length video. You can use both: one link for videos, one for Shorts.
On your website
Your newest Short can also play on your own site in an upright player: see the embed guide.
Other ways to do it
Your Shorts tab
youtube.com/@yourhandle/shorts shows all your Shorts, newest first. It never goes out of date, but visitors still have to tap one.
The link to one Short
Sharing a single Short works for a post about that Short. In a bio it is out of date as soon as you post the next one.
A playlist of Shorts
You can collect your Shorts in a playlist and link that. You have to add every new Short to it yourself.
Steps checked in November 2026. Apps move their buttons around now and then. If something looks different, tell us.