Back in March, Google started testing the ‘Jump Ahead’ button in the YouTube app for Android by making it available to a small number of people. Pressing this button skips the part of the video that most people have skipped. Well, 9To5Google says that the company is now rolling out the Jump Ahead button more widely by making it available to Premium subscribers in the United States as an experimental feature.
With this feature enabled, when you double-tap on the display to fast-forward a video, YouTube shows the Jump Ahead button at the bottom-right corner of the screen. Once you click it, the app will say “Jumping over commonly skipped section” and it will “jump you to where most viewers typically skip ahead to.” According to Google, Jump Ahead “combines watch data and AI to help identify the next best point a viewer typically skips ahead to.”
Google says that the new feature is available for only videos that are in the English language, and “not available on every video.” To get the new feature. To get the new feature, open to the YouTube app and go to You » Settings » Try experimental new features and click on ‘Try it out’ on the Jump Ahead banner. Hopefully, Google will make the feature available in more regions and platforms soon.
