YouTube for iOS and Android feature the picture-in-picture option for quite some time now and it looks like YouTube is aiming to bring the same to the web as well. The company is currently testing out the feature on a small subset of users.
YouTube is announcing few new features to its live stream function to improve the user experience and make it accessible to more people. This includes automatic English captions to live streams whenever professionally provided captions aren’t available.
YouTube TV is now finally available on a 4th generation Apple TV, Roku players, and Roku TVs in the US. You can stream live sports, local and national news, and must-see shows the moment that air on YouTube TV.
In the last few years, WhatsApp has been busy adding several value-added features like voice calls, video calls, end-to-end encryption, and the company is even rumored UPI-based WhatsApp payment system. Before that, WhatsApp on iOS has received a new feature, which enables users to watch YouTube video inside the WhatsApp application.
YouTube is now testing new ‘Dark Mode’ for its iOS mobile app. A screenshot with the new option in the setting page is being posted by a user on Reddit. The feature is already live for some and is enabled with YouTube app version number 13.01.4.
While we know Google deactivating YouTube on Amazon Fire TV was coming, it came four days earlier than scheduled. YouTube announced that its services would no longer be available on Fire TV from January 1st, 2018, but according to a new report Fast Company, the services are blocked already days before the promised date.
Video player on Chrome did not have many features, except for play/pause button, a timeline of the video and other controls that the website has included. However, a brand new video player has appeared in in Chrome Dev and Canary that brings YouTube-like double-tap to fast-forward/rewind controls.
Google recently announced that it is pulling out its YouTube app from Touchscreen Echo device and from Fire TV on January 1st. In the midst of a sudden move from Google, Amazon is in no mood of backing out as the company is said to be launching YouTube rival dubbed ‘Amazontube’ very soon.
YouTube is said to launch a new paid music subscription service in March 2018 according to sources of Bloomberg. YouTube is aiming to directly compete with rivals like Apple and Spotify which are again growing gradually after two decades of downfall.
YouTube’s CEO, Susan Wojcicki in a blog post today has announced that the company is expanding the teams that moderate the content that is on the platform as the company believes that human judgment is critical to making contextualized decisions on content.
YouTube today has announced that it is expanding its community which was under testing for over a year with few content creators with polls, pictures, text, GIFs, and more. It has expanded the Community to creators with over 10,000 subscribers.
WhatsApp for iOS is getting another update that brings two of the most noted features. It brings a more convenient way to record really long voice messages, and YouTube Picture-in-Picture mode to watching a video without leaving WhatsApp.
While YouTube has always been active about the content that goes on YouTube, off late, there’s a growing trend around the content that attempts to pass as family-friendly when it clearly doesn’t. YouTube videos are acceptable for adults, others are completely unacceptable. Today YouTube has announced five ways that it is using to protect families on YouTube and … Continue reading “YouTube outlines its approach to protect families on YouTube and YouTube Kids”
Picture in Picture (PiP) was amongst the main highlights of Android Oreo, this feature comes handy when you are watching a video but at the same time, you need to reply to important conversations. Despite being very helpful, YouTube’s pip mode is available to Red subscribers in limited countries, however recently we discovered a workaround … Continue reading “How to watch YouTube in PiP mode on any Android smartphone”
On the occasion of YouTube Kids first birthday in India, the company has rolled an update that brings fresh new look, more parental controls, kid profiles and more to the app. YouTube Kids was launched in India back in November 2016. The company says that new features are incorporated into extensive research and inputs gathered … Continue reading “YouTube kids app updated with fresh new look, new parental controls, kid profiles and more”
