Google’s YouTube TV has quickly risen to become the largest live streaming service in the US by offering an entirely internet-based alternative to traditional TV subscriptions. Features like a la carte programming and a cheap 4K tier have helped drive growth since its launch in 2017, but a top-tier user experience has always been one of the service’s main strengths when compared to cable and satellite. To help maintain its edge in this category, YouTube TV is currently rolling out significant revamps to two of its interfaces users interact with most.

The Library and Live views at the top of the main menu are receiving updated looks and some new features in the latest update for the big-screen version of the app. The Live tab now has a more condensed layout in the programming list and a new set of curated recommendations across the top. Once you start scrolling, this is replaced by a summary and thumbnail of the highlighted show.

The Library tab is getting a new section aimed at helping you quickly “Catch up on your favorites” this represents YouTube TV‘s best guess for the shows, movies, and events you’ll want to jump into next. Filters are now placed below this new shelf of recommendations, and the rest of the shows in your library will be beneath that. In both views, long-pressing a title will now bring up a compact side sheet with relevant actions and a brief summary, and pressing the back button on your remote will simply dismiss this overlay without taking you away from the page you were previously viewing.

The changes to the Live tab appear to be available to all users already, but the Library tweaks are still in the process of rolling out. As with most YouTube TV interface updates, the switch should be made with a server-side update, so you’ll just need to reload the app when the Library changes do go live. These updates are a welcome addition to YouTube TV, as the service continues to improve and offer even more value to its users.

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YouTube has just added another new feature on its popular video streaming platform. This feature is arriving on both the mobile application as well as the web player and highlights the most replayed part of the video a user is watching.

Looking at this feature, one can observe a gray graph that will appear on top of the video bar itself. As per official notes, “If the graph is high, then that part of the video has been replayed often. You can use the graph to quickly find and watch those moments.” While this isn’t exactly a ground breaking revolutionary feature, it still is a quality of life change, which helps highlights the most interesting part in the video.

This can be especially useful when watching some long videos that have a length crossing 15 minutes in total. It even helps in cases where the video did not have dedicated timestamps as well. It basically let users find the most interesting section of the video at a single glance rather than having to scrub through the entire preview. Notably, the ‘Most Replayed’ was previously only an experimental feature that was exclusive to YouTube Premium users.

But now, it is available to the entire userbase and can be found on both a browser or the company’s official iOS and Android applications as well. YouTube also announced that the new feature arrives alongside a number of other changes that seeks to make longer videos easier to navigate.

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Snapchat has just recently announced a new feature for iOS and Android users. The social media app will now allow users to share videos directly from the YouTube app, rather than having them manually cope and paste a link.

Now, Snapchat users will get a custom YouTube sticker that has the video’s thumbnail instead of a URL. This new feature was announced by the popular social media platform on its official blog. The company stated that it wanted to make it easier for YouTube users to share their favorite clips or videos directly on its app without having to leave the YouTube app.

The company added that “Starting today, all Snapchatters across iOS and Android can seamlessly share their favorite YouTube videos with their friends straight through the Snapchat Camera – no more pesky copying and pasting required!” As per the official notes, this is the first time that YouTube links can be shared on Snapchat with a visual experience.

Apart from the new YouTube sticker, users can also shoot a video, take a photo, or also use the “Creative Tools” when sharing a clip from YouTube.  Simply tapping on the sticker will take the users to the video on the YouTube app or in the user’s default web browser. In other words, this integration is a quality of life change which should also improve the overall user experience as well.

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Google has announced the roll out of a series of features for the YouTube app both for they Android and iOS versions. The features come in a major update and brings several functions, a simplified user interface (UI) and gesture control. Here is a summary of all the new features hitting the Youtube app.

Google is introducing the Video Chapters feature for the first time and it will help users navigate videos seamlessly. Already, it is possible to skip to a particular section of a video or replay a specific portion of a video and more. The new feature introduces a new list view that can be found when the chapter title is tapped or clicked in the player. This action allows you to see a complete list of all chapters included in the video that is playing, each with a preview thumbnail of what you’ll find in that chapter. This makes it easy to find the section that is relevant to you.

Google has moved the caption button to a more prominent location on the mobile video player. The autoplay toggle button is also moved to a prominent position that makes it easier to turn on or off while you’re watching. Google says it will be testing this on the desktop version soon. Google also re-arranged the buttons on the app to further simplify its look while also increasing the responsiveness of the controls.

One of the important features announced is the inclusion of gestures “to make YouTube more efficient and work for you”.This is similar to the gestures you find on Android 10 just that the actions may differ. Here, you double-tap to the left or right of a video to fast forward or rewind 10 seconds. To enter and exit full-screen mode, all you need to do is swipe up to enter full screen and down to exit.

Other stunning features include new suggested actions which prompt you to rotate your phone or play a video in VR when we think you can have a better experience. There is also bedtime reminders which are aimed at enhancing our digital wellbeing.

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