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After WhatsApp, YouTube finally arrives for JioPhone

Reliance Jio today announced that YouTube app is finally available on JioStore, meaning it will be available to install on JioPhone 2 and JioPhone 1. The app has been built specially for Jio KaiOS, a web-based operating system designed for JioPhone so that its users get the best experience.

YouTube merges Gaming destination to main site; to shut down standalone Gaming app in March 2019

YouTube back in 2015 has launched YouTube Gaming, a standalone app for gamers where it tested new features like Game Pages, Super Chat, dark theme, and Channel Memberships. Today, the company has launched a new Gaming destination; ‘youtube.com/gaming’ to give gamers a home on YouTube.

YouTube Kids gets parents approved content, “Older” version experience for tweens

YouTube today is introducing two new features to its YouTube Kids app including the parents approved content where it brings the ability for parents to handpick every video and channel available to their child in the app.

YouTube Dark Theme rolling out widely for Android users

YouTube for Desktop got dark theme back in 2017 and since then it is the most requested feature for mobile as well. iOS app got it in March. After testing it in Android in July, the app got the feature in 13.35.51 version. The latest 13.36.50 version that started rolling out today has brought the feature more widely.

YouTube starts testing New Explore tab on iOS [Update: Being tested on Android]

Update – August 30: A month after testing on iOS, YouTube has announced that the new Explore tab is now being tested on Android. It recently expanded to 2% of iOS users. The company might release it to everyone in the coming months based on the feedback from users since this is still an experimental feature.

YouTube rolls out Digital Wellbeing tools to track time spent watching videos

A couple of months back, YouTube announced new tools at the Google I/O in order to help the user to understand their usage pattern. From now, users can find all the YouTube tools in one place, alongside your personal time watched profile.

YouTube Signature Device report recommends phones for best video playback experience

At the Samsung event yesterday, Samsung mentioned that the new Galaxy Note 9 phablet is a “YouTube Signature Device” for 2019. This is YouTube’s brand new initiative that suggests the best phones that offer superior YouTube watching experience. The company calls it “signature devices,” for watching YouTube.

YouTube said to be testing Instagram-like Stories

Snapchat’s Stories now feels like one great feature as everyone now wants to jump on it. It was Instagram who directly ripped off the feature and later was added to Facebook and Messenger, now it is YouTube who wants in. The feature on YouTube was first spotted a while ago and it looks exactly like … Continue reading “YouTube said to be testing Instagram-like Stories”

YouTube for iOS gets Dark Theme, coming to Android soon [Update: Being tested on Android]

Update – July 30, 2018: Even though the company said that Dark Theme is coming to Android soon, a Reddit users has received the feature, so we can expect it to roll out for Android in the coming weeks.

YouTube web player updated to adapt to different aspect ratios

YouTube today has announced it is pushing an update to the YouTube video player on the desktop. The player now automatically adapts to provide the best viewing experience based on the video’s size and your screen size. After Android and iOS, this update is now coming to the desktop. 

YouTube expands Top News and Breaking News to 17 countries including India, to invest $25 million to support future of news

YouTube continues to rat out fake news and conspiracy theories its video-site platform. As a part of its efforts to streamline quality journalism that requires sustainable revenue, the company slowly has been expanding its funding support beyond Europe and today it is committing $25M to support future of news.

Google Play Games update brings Search, Snake game, YouTube videos with gameplay and more

Google Play Games app is getting a new update (v5.10) which brings features like new setting to disable autoplay videos, new search, removed settings to disabled Quest and Request notifications (v5.9), added Snake, YouTube links under games in the carousel (v5.8), White nav bar (v5.8). It is also bringing a new progress screen to a … Continue reading “Google Play Games update brings Search, Snake game, YouTube videos with gameplay and more”