YouTube today announced a series of Android and iOS updates as part of the video player page redesign. The general look remains the same, but Google has worked to optimize button placement and layout, while adding some convenient shortcuts.
It starts with a “more streamlined player page” that moves the various buttons out of the menus and into more prominent places. Creations are no longer another item in the overflow menu, but can be accessed as “CC” controls in the upper-right corner. Similarly, the “op tople” tug is now almost centered at the very top of the screen. That particular change is also coming as a “soon” test in the desktop client.
Google has new icons like other “minor improvements” that are hollow-out, and “Snappier controls that make any action you take even faster.”
The YouTube app is also promoting the experience of video chapters by allowing users to click inside the player to get a list view:
You will see a complete list of all the chapters contained in the video you are watching, each with a preview thumbnail of what you will find in that chapter. Save time by quickly jumping on the part you are interested in!
To enter YouTube’s fullscreen mode with this redesign, all users have to do is swipe to the player, while the opposite downward action lets you exit. Another way to get into this mode is the “rotate” suggested action that has been introduced by YouTube today. Another suggestion will ask users to enter the VR player, with more suggestions in the future.
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