YouTube now remembers how you like your videos sorted

There are tons of little annoyances on YouTube, to what degree depends on the user. An update has now fixed at least one long-standing UI flaw that has been a thorn in the side of some users.

When you go to the Videos or Shorts tab on a YouTube channel, there are three sorting options to choose from: Latest, Popular, and Oldest. As you would expect, Latest orders videos from most recent to oldest. Oldest is the opposite, listing the oldest videos first and going down to the newest. Meanwhile, Popular sorts videos by how many views each video received, with the most popular appearing on top.

Previously, YouTube would default to Latest on desktop, which makes sense as you would probably want to see the latest videos from that creator. However, this presented a problem if you ever picked a different option. For example, say that you wanted to sort by Popular. If you click on a video and then go back to the channel, the sorting option would reset to Latest.

While not the biggest issue, it is a small annoyance for some. One that YouTube appears to have fixed. Spotted by Artem Russakovskii, YouTube on desktop now remembers which sorting option you previously picked. So the next time you click on a video and head back to the channel, the videos will still be ordered in the way you want.