Google has announced it will roll out a bunch of new features for YouTube over the coming weeks. It includes a fast way to enable 2x playback speeds on mobile devices and the web and more.
Google is rolling out a large number of features on its YouTube video streaming service. Many of them are designed to give users faster ways to speed up playback on a video, or to lock one down so you don’t accidentally cause it to stop, fast forward, or rewind.
‘The official YouTube blog has the details on these changes. One of the big new features is made specifically for people who like to watch videos at faster than normal speeds:
When watching a video either in full screen or portrait mode, just press and hold down anywhere on the player to automatically bump your playback speed to 2x.
