YouTube’s Mobile App Gets New Gestures and Playback Controls
https://www.theverge.comYouTube is updating its mobile apps with a few new features that should make viewing and controlling videos a bit easier, with new gestures, updated player controls, and additional features. New features include
- there’s a new list view for video chapters that shows all the chapters for the video, including a preview thumbnail
- gesture to enable or disable full-screen video: instead of tapping the button (or rotating your phone), you’ll now be able to swipe up on the video window to enter full-screen and swipe down to return back to the standard player page.
- a new closed-caption toggle that appears directly on the overlay menu, along with the toggle to turn on or off autoplay video.
- you can also tap on the timestamp of a video to switch between viewing how much time has elapsed in a video and how much time there is left.
- suggested actions — small prompts that will recommend that users rotate their phones (perhaps using that new full-screen gesture mentioned earlier) or use a VR headset for a better experience watching a video. YouTube says that it’ll be working on adding more suggested actions in the future, too.
