Sign in to your Android Police account Summary Google is testing a significant redesign of the YouTube mini player. The updated design removes the dedicated bottom bar with skip forward and backward buttons, moving the pause button to the left ...

Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube is testing additional design tweaks for its new mini player on Android. The updated design is available in the latest beta release, and it gets rid of the bottom bar with the forward, ...

Sign in to your Android Police account Summary Google is testing blurred thumbnails on YouTube to protect users from accidental exposure to mature content. The blurred thumbnails don’t disrupt content discovery as video titles and descriptions remain visible. The feature ...

Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube has started testing a new feature that automatically blurs thumbnails for videos featuring mature content. The experimental feature is available to a few users and works only on videos that appear as search ...

YouTube, the world’s most popular video platform, is available on several platforms. Google offers dedicated apps not only for mobile devices but also for game consoles and smart TVs. The list includes Android TV/Google TV and virtually every existing smart ...

Sign in to your Android Police account Summary YouTube’s latest quarterly update for its smart TV and gaming console app focuses on enhanced content discovery with the introduction of five new shelves: “Continue your search,” “Listen again,” “Live performances, remixes, ...

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR Google has announced a slew of improvements to YouTube’s TV and console app. The app now offers five more shelf/category types on your home feed as well as more places to watch Shorts. The ...

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority YouTube is often tinkering with its interface, usually to the dismay of those who are subject to the experiment. Some Reddit users expressed ire over tested changes to the YouTube UI last week, but you ...

Android added support for picture-in-picture (PiP) video playback back in 2017, and YouTube has supported the feature ever since. Using PiP, you can navigate away from the YouTube app while your video continues to play in a floating window. PiP ...

Joe Maring / Android Authority More so than any other subscription service, I’ve never been more conflicted about one than YouTube Premium. YouTube ads are horrendous; between non-skippable ads, pre-roll ads, mid-roll ads, etc., the amount of advertising you have ...