YouTube App Updated With Fullscreen Playback for Vertical Videos

[Casiotone]

Is it so difficult for them to add audio continues play outside the app.......?.... the most requested feature.

It's intentional, people (mostly of the younger generation) were using the Youtube app as a free music player. Also, as someone else mentioned it prevented them from showing ads.

Actually, since their recent change involving HTML5 (not sure what they did), I remember seeing ads a couple of times because their player somehow loaded instead of the built-in QuickTime player on iOS. It might have been on the iPad only because I still see the QuickTime player without ads on my iPhone.

The latest version of the HTML5 YT player mimics the Flash Player perfectly including ads, even when embedded. This new player (V3) is not using the standard QT controls and doesn't currently work for Picture-in-Picture in iOS 9 for example. Sites can still embed YT videos using the old player (V2) that does provide standard QT controls (and PIP for iOS 9) but it's being phased out.

And while the YT app doesn't work for PIP in iOS 9 currently because it doesn't use standard controls, Apple provides APIs to enable third parties like Google to add a custom PIP button for their custom player, which they will hopefully add for the iOS 9 version this fall.

 

[mazz0]

A foot.................

Why can't your nose be 12 inches long? Because then it would be a foot!

 

[Michael Goff]

It's intentional, people (mostly of the younger generation) were using the Youtube app as a free music player. Also, as someone else mentioned it prevented them from showing ads.



The latest version of the HTML5 YT player mimics the Flash Player perfectly including ads, even when embedded. This new player (V3) is not using the standard QT controls and doesn't currently work for Picture-in-Picture in iOS 9 for example. Sites can still embed YT videos using the old player (V2) that does provide standard QT controls (and PIP for iOS 9) but it's being phased out.

And while the YT app doesn't work for PIP in iOS 9 currently because it doesn't use standard controls, Apple provides APIs to enable third parties like Google to add a custom PIP button for their custom player, which they will hopefully add for the iOS 9 version this fall.

They could always do it like they do with Android, where the ads still play in the background. :|

 

[Casiotone]

They could always do it like they do with Android, where the ads still play in the background. :|

There was a period where Android could and iOS couldn't do it, but apparently in the current version you can't play YT audio in the background on Android either, unless you have a "Music Key" which is a limited beta service I didn't hear about before now. (It seems that it is/will be available for iOS also.)

There are some ways around it on Android, but nothing official.

 

[bn-7bc]

They force you to create a youtube channel and Google+ profile.....f@#$%!ng hate Google.

Amd yet you use YouTube, owned and operated by Google, oh the irony
If you really hate Google stop using their products incl YouTube

 

[Florpy]

Android and iOS (especially iOS since iPhone users come off as technologically inept) need to implement a feature where the video either DOES NOT RECORD while shot vertically OR when the video is shot, a warning pops up that calls out the user for their stupidity for shooting vertically and then saving the file and rotating 90 degrees to show drive their cluelessness home.

What if I want to record, say, pinball tutorials? Then using vertical video makes a lot of sense.

 

[EdwardGreene]

Periscope is also another good reason for this. Periscope natively saves your video in a vertical format even if you record horizontal, so now you can just natively ship it up without having to edit it.

 

[0098386]

Recently removed the Youtube app. If you don't use it to upload or subscribe is there any point in using it? The web page works good enough for searching for videos, and it's a whole lot more useful to have a video play on a page (or within another app) instead of it autoswitching to the app.