Apple should force all video apps to offer PiP. It’s BS that YouTube can refuse to offer it because they want to save it for paying customers.
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YouTube for iOS Gaining New Gestures and Controls
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Yay gestures!
Auto-play can be turned off in settings btw. Always good to check settings before the knee-jerky remarks.
Auto-play can be turned off in settings btw. Always good to check settings before the knee-jerky remarks.
Fortunately, I abandoned watching YouTube over a year ago. Looks like it’s still garbage looking for suckers to waste their time looking at ads and lousy vids.
Bro ... NOTHING GOOGLE does is EVER unituitive. Just look at the second example in the article.
The video is full screen and placed purpendicular to the screen orientation. So now the user has to either a) turn the screen sideways from watching a move to properly use swiping down, or swipe to the right to dismiss or exit full screen?
WITAF?!
For pete's sake they STILL haven't followed UI guidelines for Youtube on ATV - make it such a JARRING experience.
There's an app called PiP-it that let's you picture in picture from the YouTube app.
Google should fire the YT management team for their abysmal YouTube app and website carp stuff ... always defaulting to 240p or 360p with closed captioning off and mysteriously maxing out at 720p, on both my iPhone and iPad. Every single video I want to watch, I need to jump through reloading, changing settings, upping the resolution, turning on captions, turning off autoplay, and no I can’t complain about political ads since I changed security settings, etc. Oh and I have to decline YT Premium every time too. U.n.r.e.a.l.
Can you view 4K videos on an iPad yet? I’m able to watch 4K on my iPhone, but maxes at 1080p on my iPad...
Oh, bleep that!
I'm all for protecting kids from stumbling on garbage, but the should set up contents flags to work with parental filters, not make everyone log in to watch every dang video.
Which means, of course, YouTube will soon make everyone log in to watch every dang video. Because Google is China-like in their malign desire to monitor and control the Internet.
iPad Pro can only play back at 1080P. You’d need at least 2560 X 1440 for 2K, let alone 4K.
I don’t see PiP appearing in the app because from what I understand:
1. Apple won’t allow YouTube to offer PiP as a paid feature, since it is considered basic functionality on iOS.
2. If PiP is allowed for everyone, then background play will have to be enabled for everyone as well, losing a key Premium feature.
1. Apple won’t allow YouTube to offer PiP as a paid feature, since it is considered basic functionality on iOS.
2. If PiP is allowed for everyone, then background play will have to be enabled for everyone as well, losing a key Premium feature.
Agreed. I'll bet this upgrade is specifically to circumvent settings in Safari/Safari Mobile from disabling auto play.
Um, it's an option, you don't have to use it! I mostly have mine turned off, but if I want to listen to music via YT, then it is actually quite cool, as it just throws up an automated playlist for you based on the first vid.
From a UX perspective the new move is contextually wrong, worse when considering hierarchy and proximity.
In the current scenario - I'm watching a video, beneath it is all the information relating to it. Within the current video I'm watching, there are the controls relating to it, go back to start, play, go to end and view in full screen.
Now there's - I'm watching a video, I have the same controls, nut now in the frame of the video and controls for it is autoplay to the next video, but it's removed from the proximity of the image frame of the video that will play next.
So where as previosouly things where stacked sequentially of inform me of what I'm watching now, what I can do now and what will happen next, the users natural behaviour is being forced to change to try and understand what is happening now, what will happen next and how that information is presented within proximity to its content.
Big stuff up. Follow patterns of behaviour, don't force users into new patterns if they don't create a bettre experience.
In the current scenario - I'm watching a video, beneath it is all the information relating to it. Within the current video I'm watching, there are the controls relating to it, go back to start, play, go to end and view in full screen.
Now there's - I'm watching a video, I have the same controls, nut now in the frame of the video and controls for it is autoplay to the next video, but it's removed from the proximity of the image frame of the video that will play next.
So where as previosouly things where stacked sequentially of inform me of what I'm watching now, what I can do now and what will happen next, the users natural behaviour is being forced to change to try and understand what is happening now, what will happen next and how that information is presented within proximity to its content.
Big stuff up. Follow patterns of behaviour, don't force users into new patterns if they don't create a bettre experience.
Yes, it’s an option (but thanks for explaining that to me). One which keeps turning itself back on at random times. And has to be reset on every device and browser. If it reliably stayed off everywhere when I turned it off, then there wouldn’t be all this anger over it.
Fair enough, I confess I 99% use YT on my MBP, in which case the autoplay option stays where you leave it, and with an add blocker installed, it's freaking awesome.
And I confess, when I do use YT on my iPhone, it's so freaking horrible I shake my head in wonder.
So fair enough, I take back my comment, and my apologies for it being a bit snarky and patronising, I guess that's the internet warrior instinct that creeps up on most of us, my bad, I'm trying to get out of that habit.
I recently deleted the iOS app as I was tired of the ads before and during videos, the ads in the sidebar and the annoying pop-ups begging to upgrade to premium.
Instead, I created a web app link on my home screen and couldn’t be happier. Zero ads thanks to my adblocker!
And free PiP as a bonus.
Instead, I created a web app link on my home screen and couldn’t be happier. Zero ads thanks to my adblocker!
And free PiP as a bonus.
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Autoplay exists to monetize babies and toddlers. It also reduces their IQ down to 50, and ruins their eyes. They are comfortably numb and go straight to healthcare and thus help the pharma and insurance industries to thrive. Later they can become fat bubbles that live on soda pop and prepacked food. Easy for them, and great for economic growth. Win-Win for everyone.