YouTube is about to look very different. Here’s what to expect.
Get ready for a brand new YouTube experience.
YouTube is one of those apps and sites that changes so subtly that most users don’t even notice until they look back at a screenshot from a decade ago.
But today, YouTube is hoping you’ll notice at least some of the three dozen updates it’s rolling out to make the user experience more seamless.
Many of these updates will be available today, while others will roll out gradually over the coming weeks.
The new features include new ways to seek, the ability to lock your screen on a video to prevent tapping out of it, new designs for the headers, collections, intro animations, and video descriptions, and incorporating the ambient theme into the light theme.
1. Press and hold to increase playback speed
We all know YouTube videos can be unnecessarily long. Like wanting to get to a recipe on a website, sometimes we just want the host to get to the point.
Now, you can press and hold to increase the video’s playback speed to 2x.
