You cannot add new photos, text, or major visual elements to a YouTube Short after it has been published and started accumulating views. YouTube's built-in video editor in YouTube Studio only allows for basic edits such as trimming, splitting, and blurring parts of your video, but it does not support adding new images, overlays, or text after the video is live 1 5 . These edits preserve your existing views and engagement, but they are limited in scope. If you want to make significant changes-like adding new photos or text overlays-you will need to create a new, edited version of your Short using a video editor outside of YouTube, then upload it as a new video 2 3 . This means the new version will start from zero views and engagement, as you cannot transfer the existing views from the original video to the new upload 3 4 . Some creators choose to keep the original video live and upload the improved version separately, especially if the original is already performing w...