YouTube

Summary: YouTube’s dev team is working on a feature for the website that will automatically enable PiP mode for the currently playing video when you switch to another tab. This behavior is similar to that of the mobile app for ...

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube is testing a new desktop layout with much larger video thumbnails. Users report seeing as few as two videos per row, though it depends on screen and zoom settings. Frustrated users are turning ...

Sign in to your Android Police account Summary YouTube is introducing a “new” label on Shorts for both Android and iOS users to distinguish recently uploaded videos from older, algorithmically suggested content. This new feature offers a degree of chronological ...

Sign in to your Android Police account Summary An APK teardown reveals YouTube is working on a feature that might help users limit their Shorts consumption. Users will be able to set a time duration for how long they want ...

Summary: YouTube has launched a new Music Assistant AI tool for creators. It is an enhanced version of the Dream Tracks feature that the company introduced nearly a year ago. The new functionality lets you generate background music for long ...

Joe Hindy / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube could soon let users set a daily timer for watching Shorts. We’ve found code in the latest YouTube app beta suggesting users will be able to set a timer for minutes or hours ...

Sign in to your Android Police account Summary YouTube is launching “Music Assistant,” an AI tool within Creator Music (currently for some US creators) that generates custom, royalty-free instrumental background music for longer videos based on user prompts. Building on ...

Summary: YouTube has announced its support of the “No Fakes Act.” This is a push for legislation that will bring rules for using the AI-generated likeness of people online. This act was brought in 2023 and 2024, but has picked ...

Summary: Several Roku users have flooded Reddit, Google, and Roku forums saying that the YouTube TV app has disappeared from their Roku devices. The popular video streaming app has suddenly vanished from the homescreens of the Roku devices. However, there’s ...

Summary: After the EU, YouTube Premium’s grandfathered price will increase in the US as well. Users paying $7.99 per month will now have to fork out $12.99. For years YouTube has allowed beta testers of its early streaming service to ...