YouTube Premium Customers Get Listening Controls on Cellular: Report

YouTube is reportedly rolling out ‘Listening Controls’ characteristic for Android and iOS customers who’re YouTube Premium subscribers. The brand new characteristic offers customers further controls whereas listening to music on the platform. It permits you to play, pause, ahead and even rewind movies. This new characteristic, when activated, will substitute all the pieces that reveals up beneath the video and can stay even if you swap to a brand new video. Utilizing the listening controls, YouTube app customers may also save new songs to a playlist if they like.

9to5Google reviews that listening controls characteristic is now obtainable for YouTube Android and iOS customers broadly. The report provides that the characteristic is just rolling out to YouTube Premium customers. It’s mentioned to be obtainable for US customers in the mean time. The brand new characteristic could be accessed by clicking on the three-dot icon on the highest proper nook of the YouTube video. Choose ‘Listening Controls’ from the choices that pop up from the underside.

The brand new Listening Controls widget is alleged to take the place of all the pieces that reveals up on the backside of the YouTube video contained in the Android and iOS app. It affords controls to play and pause a video, go to the following one or swap again to the earlier one. Quick ahead or rewind 10 seconds of the video, and even put it aside to a playlist. The like button is obtainable on the Listening Controls widget as nicely. The report provides that the listening controls are persistent and stay even when customers swap to a brand new video from the House feed, search, and many others.

For many who wish to conceal the ‘Up subsequent’ and feedback feed from their YouTube for Android and iOS apps, can benefit from the listening controls characteristic. Nonetheless, this characteristic is just obtainable for paid subscribers as of now. There isn’t any readability on whether or not it is going to be made obtainable to free customers sooner or later.