With Google I/O 2026 in its second day, Google has announced lots of new AI-powered features coming to basically all of its products, and this includes YouTube Shorts with the Remix feature. Announced as a feature now powered by Gemini Omni, YouTube Shorts Remix will basically let you photobomb someone else’s YouTube Shorts clips. In a sense.
The very nature of a photobomb is that someone can insert themselves into your photo and in most cases you aren’t aware of it. At least that’s how things originated. With YouTube Shorts Remix, you aren’t truly inserting yourself with the other person being completely unaware. That’s because of how it works. Using Gemini Omni, a person can alter the style of a video by pressing the remix button at the bottom of the screen to change through a variety of different styles. It’s also possible to just straight up add yourself to a video using that same button. But not just any video.
The YouTube Shorts Remix button has to be enabled by the content creator
It’s worth noting that while anyone can remix a YouTube Short once this feature goes live, you won’t be able to do it to just any video. Google has confirmed that it will need to be enabled by the creator of the video. So if you don’t enable it, people won’t be able to use the remix button.
If a Short is remixed, it’ll be labeled accordingly since the feature uses Gemini Omni to reimagine the content. Google stated in its Omni announcement that these watermarks and SynthID expansions are there to help distinguish AI-generated content from real content that was recorded. So if you see a remixed video while browsing shorts, you’ll know it wasn’t the original.
The YouTube Shorts Remix powered by Gemini Omni began rolling out as part of an update to the YouTube app on May 19.
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