Should you’re paying out for YouTube Premium each month, there are 5 new options now rolling out so that you can make the most of, overlaying YouTube Shorts, good downloads, improved navigation, and – in fact – AI.
As defined in a put up on the official YouTube weblog, the brand new options goal to offer you extra management over your YouTube expertise. The put up additionally mentions that the variety of YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium subscribers now exceeds 100 million.
First up is a brand new skip characteristic, accessible now to US customers on Android (and coming to iOS quickly). Should you double-tap to skip forward, you may see a button that takes you proper to the most well-liked a part of the video, direct. We would beforehand heard that such a characteristic was being examined, and there is extra on the way it works right here.
Then there’s picture-in-picture help for YouTube Shorts, accessible now on Android gadgets. This provides to the picture-in-picture expertise that is already supplied for normal movies, and means you may up your multitasking sport.
Nonetheless experimental
The opposite three new options are all labeled as experimental, and could be accessed and enabled on the net. You possibly can select to allow good downloads for YouTube Shorts, for instance, so you have at all times bought some bite-sized content material to look at, even offline.
Then there’s conversational AI, for Android customers within the US. This implies you may ask an AI bot questions concerning the video you are watching, through the Ask button beneath it. That is along with the AI summaries that YouTube Premium subscribers can already entry.
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And the final experimental characteristic is a redesigned watch web page, which rejigs how video and different web page furnishings (together with the feedback) will get proven on display screen. As with all of those experimental options, you’ve the choice to go away suggestions, good or dangerous.
Whereas these new upgrades aren’t significantly huge on their very own, along with the opposite perks of YouTube Premium, all of it provides up. A subscription to the service at the moment prices $14 / £12 / AU$17 a month, and consists of YouTube Music Premium.
