YouTube keyboard shortcuts

Explore all 17 keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys for YouTube 2025 on an interactive visual keyboard. Toggle modifiers (Ctrl, Shift, Alt, Meta), filter by category, and search any command or key combination.

Top shortcuts

  • Space — Play/Pause when the seek bar is selected, activate a button if a button has focus
  • K — Play/Pause in player
  • J — Seek backward 10 seconds in player
  • L — Seek forward 10 seconds in player
  • Home — Seek to the beginning of the video
  • End — Seek to the last seconds of the video
  • ArrowUp — Increase volume 5%
  • ArrowDown — Decrease volume 5%
  • 0 — Seek to the beginning of the video
  • Shift+1 — Move between H1 headers
  • Slash — Go to search box
  • F — Activate full screen, press again (or Esc) to exit
  • C — Activate closed captions and subtitles, press again to hide
  • Shift+N — Move to the next video
  • Shift+P — Move to the previous video
  • I — Launch the Miniplayer
  • Period — Move forward a single frame (while paused)

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  • YouTube shortcuts
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