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YouTube is trying to fight misinformation with new feature

Since most video playback features are already present on YouTube, Google is trying to improve its community features. There is a lot of misinformation everywhere on the internet, so, as the owner of the world's biggest social media platform, Google is trying to fight it with an upcoming YouTube feature. YouTube to get Viewers' Note […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
3 months ago

[Update] Samsung Keyboard loses Grammarly, Spotify, YouTube extensions

Update: A few of our readers are still able to see the Grammarly extension, as you can see in the screenshot below. It's unclear if the Grammarly extension is still available in all markets and all devices, as some of our devices devices don't have it. The original story follows… Samsung Keyboard for Android offers […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
3 months ago

YouTube is getting a much better looking mini player

Google is bringing a small but better-looking design to the YouTube app on Android. The app will soon get a new design for its in-app mini player, which is in line with the third-generation Material design that Google has been following over the past couple of years. YouTube's new mini-player design looks more modern The […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
4 months ago

Subscribed to YouTube Premium? Here are some new features for you

Google is adding some more features to YouTube Premium subscribers. The world's biggest video streaming service is getting more granular controls and is becoming more productive. It is also getting some AI-powered features. The company is also exploring more premium subscription plans. YouTube Premium users get Jump Ahead, picture-in-picture for Shorts, and Conversational AI YouTube […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
5 months ago

YouTube now lets you search using Google Lens on Android

Up until now, the YouTube app for Android gave you two ways to search for content on the video streaming platform. You could type what you are looking for in the search bar or you could use the voice input button to tell the app what you are looking for. Well, YouTube for Android now […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
5 months ago

YouTube Playables bring more games to more people

In November 2023, Google introduced Playables on YouTube, a section containing games that you can play instantly without downloading anything for free. Back then, the company had made Playables available in only a few countries, including India, and it had 37 games. Well, Google has now expanded Playables to more regions and added more games […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
6 months ago

YouTube’s AI-powered Jump Ahead feature now available to more people

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 […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
6 months ago

YouTube could cause battery life, smoothness issues on older Galaxy devices

Updates usually bring new features and performance improvements. However, sometimes updates also bring performance and reliability issues. One such issue could come to YouTube on older or affordable Galaxy phones and tablets. Older and lower-end Galaxy phones could have performance issues on YouTube with AV1 decoding Google’s Arif Dikici (Android Video and Image Codecs Team) […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
7 months ago

YouTube Music now lets you search for a song by singing or humming

In October 2023, Google rolled a feature to the YouTube app for Android that allowed you to search for a song by humming or singing that song or playing a clip of that song, making it easier for you to search for a song whose name you aren't aware of. Now, the company is rolling […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
8 months ago

YouTube gets more interactive on TVs with new update

Google has announced that it is updating the YouTube app for TV platforms with a redesigned layout for accessing interactive content and information related to a video for offering a better user experience. Currently, when you click on the title of a video, YouTube brings up a card showing the likes and views counts, upload […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
8 months ago

YouTube picture-in-picture coming to free users in more countries

In the United States, Google has been offering picture-in-picture (PIP) on YouTube for free since 2022. However, in other regions, the company still offers this feature as a part of the Premium subscription. Well, that seems to be finally changing. According to Android Police and reports on Reddit, Google has been offering picture-in-picture on YouTube […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
9 months ago

YouTube Kids is going away from Samsung TVs

Google has been offering the YouTube Kids app alongside the YouTube app on Android TV/Google TV, Apple TV (tvOS), Samsung TV (Tizen), LG TV (WebOS), and Fire TV (Fire OS) for a very long time. However, in May 2023, the company started offering YouTube Kids within YouTube as well on those platforms to offer a […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
9 months ago

Google adds 1080p Enhanced video quality option to YouTube TV

Google has started rolling out a new video quality option on YouTube TV, and it is called 1080p Enhanced. As the name suggests, 1080p Enhanced offers a better picture quality compared to 1080p60. That could mostly be because 1080p Enhanced has a higher bitrate compared to 1080p60. According to the company, this is now the […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
9 months ago

Official YouTube app for the Apple Vision Pro has been confirmed

A new device is only as good as the apps that are available for it. Even as Apple's $3,499 Vision Pro headset has launched with several hundred apps, there's one app that most users would undoubtedly be looking for on day one: YouTube. As it turns out, there's no official YouTube app for the headset […]

By Adnan Farooqui
9 months ago

YouTube now has more than 100 million paid subscribers

Google has announced that YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium now have more than a hundred million subscribers (including subscribers using the two paid services on a trial basis). According to the company, it gained over 20 million subscribers in just over a year. In 2021, the two platforms had 50 million subscribers combined, which […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
9 months ago

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