YouTube introduces redesigned playback speed feature on Android, iOS: report
YouTube announced several new and updated features in October. Among them were a new sleep timer, a customizable mini-player and some visual improvements. Alphabet’s video streaming platform has now reportedly started rolling out a redesigned version of the playback speed box. This is said to allow users to control playback speed more complicatedly. This feature was previously teased by the company. A report claims that it is now coming to Android and iOS users. It is expected to be available to all users worldwide soon.
New YouTube playback speed design
According to a 9to5Google reportYouTube introduces a redesigned version of the playback speed feature. The report adds that the feature is available for YouTube version 19.43 on Android and 19.44 on iOS. With the updated version, if users go to Institutions > Playback speeda rectangular pop-up window will appear at the bottom of the screen.
Inside the box, a row of five preset speed options appear as pill-shaped buttons: 0.25, 1.0 (normal), 1.25, 1.5, and 2.0. In addition, the box shows an adjustable slider. Allows users to fine-tune playback speed in 0.5 increments. The selected speed is displayed above the slider and adjustments can be made by dragging the slider or tapping the plus and minus buttons on either side of the slider.
Previously, the Playback Speed menu opened in a long pop-up window that took up almost half of the bottom half of the screen. The layout resembled the design now used for the sleep timer function. Users were only presented with specific preset speed options (0.25x, 0.5x, 0.75x, Normal, 1.25x, 1.5x, 1.75x, and 2x) to choose from.
YouTube specifically mentioned the “fine-tune playback speed” feature in a blog post in October this year, where it announced that it will be rolling out around 20 updates across web, mobile, TVs and YouTube Music apps.
