Now you can Control YouTube with gestures on android. YouTube is rolling out an experimental gesture to let you quickly move through a video more easily. You will get this update If you are using YouTube’s version 16.31.34 beta while the other gesture is live for some on version 16.31.35 beta.
They are also testing another gesture that allows you to skip between video chapters using double-tap with two fingers. These gestures appear to be rolling out as a server-side update. The new slide to seek feature update news was shared by a reddit user. YouTube has been adding a lot of new features to its android app to improve user interaction.
It’s a more convenient way to skip to a part of the video. That you’d like to see than the current method. Where you’ll need to tap in order to reveal the progress bar, hold the screen, and then slide your finger along the line to move forward and backward in a video.
Control YouTube with gestures on android
YouTube allowed users to tap anywhere on the seek bar to skip to a specific point in the video. Last year, however, that capability was ditched following complaints that a single tap to move the seek bar frequently led to accidental taps.
The new slide-to-seek gesture fixes the problem that you have faced for so long. The gesture causes a pop-up message to appear on the screen instructing you to “slide left or right to seek”. Another cool feature that might be coming your way is double finger tap.
It allows you to jump to the next or previous chapter in a video by double-tapping on the screen using two fingers. And if the action is performed on the right side of the screen. The video player skips to the next chapter. Otherwise, it jumps back to the previous one.