Stories, YouTube’s mobile-only videos, are going away. June 25 last day to use

YouTube has announced the closure of its ‘Stories’ feature, saying in an official blog post that people will not be able to use it after June 26.

“Starting on 6/26/2023, the option to create a new YouTube Story will no longer be available. Stories that are already live on that date will expire 7 days after they were originally shared,” the Google-owned video platform announced on Friday.

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