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Towards the beginning of this year, YouTube Music had updated its Home feed for tablets. At that time, the Google-owned company had hinted that more UI optimizations were in the works, especially when it comes to playlists. Now, making good on that promise, YouTube Music offers an improved settings layout on Android.
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Popular video hosting platform YouTube has announced quite a few new updates to its video player. The Google subsidiary has introduced a host of new features, ranging from a “Most replayed” graph to testing ways to jump to interesting sections quickly.
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Alphabet Inc., which is the parent company of Google, has reported its first-quarter revenue. The numbers reported by Alphabet Inc. have fallen short of analysts’ expectations. This rare miss for the tech giant may have been caused by slower ad sales in Europe, coupled with a lackluster performance by YouTube. In extended trading, the shares declined by approximately 6%. Alphabet Inc. has also announced a $70 billion share buyback program.
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Tech giant Google has introduced a brand new “Like” button animation on YouTube mobile. Reports on new animation date as far back as over a month ago, such as in the r/YouTube subreddit. The new animation may have been rolling out for a while now, however, it is appearing much more widely for users only now. As of now, the new “Like” button animation is still limited to YouTube on Android and iOS devices. The plain animation that fills the “Like” button and increases the like counter still appears on YouTube for desktop. There has been no news on if or not the updated animation will come to YouTube for desktop.
Read MoreOn Thursday, a Russian court issued a series of small fines on U.S. tech giant Google for not having taken down contentious YouTube videos regarding the Kremlin’s military operation in Ukraine. The Moscow court ordered Google to pay a total sum amounting to 11 million rubles ( or $135,000 in USD) for disregarding orders by the state media regulator to remove posts that allege heavy Russian losses in Ukraine.
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Since a lot of users’ private and sensitive data is stored on digital devices like smartphones and tablets, app tracking has become a cause for concern. In order to reduce the amount of surveillance done on users by apps, tech giant Apple has begun cracking down on app tracking. In 2021, the tech giant introduced the App Tracking Transparency feature in iOS 14.5. This feature is meant to act as a shield for iOS users. It stops developers from tracking users across websites and other apps. When a user rejects tracking, it gets harder to collect data on users to create user profiles that can identify their interests for tailored advertisements. This consumer-focused update by Apple has been costing big digital corporations such as YouTube and Facebook billions in revenue.
Read MoreYouTube‘s latest UI tests on mobile have been making even more adjustments to the autoplay “Playback in feed” feature. This is presumably to make the autoplay feature more immersive. The latest changes to the UI involves changes to the the autoplay feature. It has added new in-feed controls for the volume and closed captions. Besides, it has the ability to tag a video as “Watch later” or to just skip it completely. Shortly after a video starts to autoplay, the immersive autoplay feature can do this while dimming the rest of the YouTube home feed interface. Users can access these controls by tapping the three-dot expanded menu option. Users can find this option along with the video title, channel icon, and view count.
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On Sunday, the team behind the YouTube Vanced project announced in their official Telegram channel as well as on the Vanced Twitter account that the modded app will be discontinued. YouTube Vanced was an alternative app to the official one by Google. It was a modded version of the original YouTube app. Moreover, it added several features to the app, such as ad blocking, background playback, and much more. The app did so without charging users like in the Premium tier of YouTube. YouTube Vanced gained even more popularity when, just as Google removed them officially, the app brought back dislike counts in videos. Now, upon the app’s discontinuation, users have unanswered questions.
Read MoreThe Android app for popular Google owned video sharing platform, YouTube, appears to be getting a nifty little feature. This updated feature allows users to view the entire transcription of a video right on the app itself. Previously, this was a feature solely limited to the desktop version of the platform. The feature is now beginning to show up for a couple of Android users of the app, too.
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Google will be suspending billing on its mobile app store, Play. The tech giant will also be pausing payment-based services for YouTube users in Russia. The company blames “payment system disruption” related to Western sanctions on Russian banks for this move.
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