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YouTube's smartphone software is having fresh motions and replay functions
YouTube is upgrading its mobile applications with a few different updates to make watching and managing videos a little simpler, with different gestures, improved player buttons and extra features.
The biggest change is a new gesture to allow or disable full-screen recording: instead of pressing the button (or turning your phone), you can now swipe up the video window to reach full-screen and swipe down to return to the normal player tab. (Those movements can only work when you swipe on the playback window itself — so you don't have to think about being frustrated with the swipe gestures to exit iOS and Android apps.)
There are now a few different buttons on the video player: there is now a different closed-caption toggle that appears directly on the overlay menu, along with a toggle to turn on or off the autoplay video. You may also press the time stamp of the video to switch between seeing how much time has passed in the video and how much time is left.
The new apps now include an extended version of the video chapter include that YouTube has been improving over the last few months. Now, there's a new list view that displays all chapters in the film, plus a sample thumbnail (like a DVD menu).
Finally, YouTube introduces a new series of "suggested actions"—small reminders that will recommend users to rotate their phones (maybe using the new full-screen gesture listed above) or use a VR headset for a smoother video viewing experience. YouTube says that it will already be focusing on incorporating more proposed acts in the future.
