Where is the Save button on YouTube Shorts? Save to playlist

The YouTube Help page I read describes saving a Short through the More menu: tap More, then Save to playlist, then pick Watch later, an existing playlist, or a New playlist. If your app shows a dedicated Save button on the Shorts player, that button is not documented on the page I fetched, so I will not describe how it behaves.

Source: YouTube's help page on creating and managing playlists (Android), read 2026-10-02.

How do I save a Short to a playlist?

On Android, the page says to tap More, then Save to playlist, then choose a playlist or create a new one. I only confirmed the Android wording on the page I read, so check your own device.

• Open the Short.
• Tap More (the three dots).
• Tap Save to playlist.
• Choose Watch later, an existing playlist, or New playlist.

Can playlists hold Shorts and regular videos together?

Yes. The page says playlists can contain Shorts mixed with regular videos. For managing them there is a filter: "Shorts: Displays Shorts saved to the playlist." The page says that filter is only available on computers.

The page gives no maximum number of videos in a playlist, and no daily number of playlists you can create. It states there is a limit to how many public playlists a channel can create each day across the YouTube main app, YouTube Music and the YouTube API, without a figure. Do not plan a batch around a number the page does not publish.

What can a creator do with saved-style behavior?

Viewers save what they want to come back to, and a playlist is how a series stays together. If you publish episodes, put them in a playlist yourself so that a viewer lands on the next one. YouTube's Shorts series feature is a separate structure with seasons and episodes; see Shorts series rules.

The page does not say that a save changes recommendations or reach, so there is no basis here to claim that more saves lift a Short.

Where does Sume come in?

Sume makes the video file; it does not publish to YouTube and has no playlist function. If you add Shorts to a series playlist through the YouTube Data API, the cost per insert is covered in YouTube playlistItems.insert costs 50 units.

What Sume can do is make the episodes consistent, so a playlist of them feels like one series: the same output size, caption style and length. Video captions burns captions with a named style and optional design overrides, and the same request can be repeated for every episode:

curl -X POST https://api.sume.com/v1/video-captions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SUME_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: ep-04-captions" \
  -d '{
    "video_url": "https://media.sume.com/artifacts/artf_demo/ep04.mp4",
    "style": "punch",
    "language": "en"
  }'

What is the one thing to verify yourself?

Open a Short on your own device and look at the player. Whether you see a Save button or only the More menu depends on your app version, and YouTube's help page only documents the More route. When the two differ, trust what your screen shows and the help page together.

What should creators do about playlists?

Give each series a playlist with a clear title, and put new episodes in it on the day they go live. A playlist can mix Shorts and regular videos, so a long explainer can sit beside its clips. Keep the number of public playlists you create in a day small, since the help page says there is a daily limit without giving a figure.