YouTube often exams new options with small teams of individuals, earlier than rolling them out to everybody. The service is now experimenting with a pinch-to-zoom characteristic for movies, however solely YouTube Premium members can attempt it for now.
YouTube Premium subscribers can now check an experimental characteristic in YouTube for Android, as identified by 9to5Google. Tapping your profile image, then navigating to Your Premium advantages > Attempt new options reveals an opt-in characteristic to zoom on YouTube movies. When enabled, the characteristic provides pinch-to-zoom help for the video participant.
The brand new characteristic might come in useful for movies re-uploaded from different sources, which frequently have letterboxing on all sides. The YouTube cellular apps already can help you crop a video to match your display’s width — a helpful characteristic for telephones with ultra-tall screens — and the experimental possibility provides much more flexibility.
Although the choice is on the market on my Galaxy S22, I’m not capable of zoom in whereas a video is enjoying, so your outcomes could differ. YouTube plans to proceed experimenting with the characteristic till September 1 on the earliest, at which level Google could roll it out to extra folks or prolong testing. It’s solely supported on Android for now — sorry, iPhone and iPad house owners.
YouTube Premium is a month-to-month subscription that removes ads from YouTube movies (whereas nonetheless paying the creators, in contrast to advert blockers), permits saving movies for offline play, and provides options to YouTube Music. Google additionally often permits Premium subscribers to check new options earlier than everybody else.
Supply: 9to5Google
