- YouTube has brought some new improvement for smart TV and consoles
- These include several new parts to help find videos and music
- Then there is a big new design because of the “summer” rollout.
YouTube is committed to polishing its smart TV experience this year – and the first signs of its efforts are now being prepared for both TV and game consoles.
As Google announced in a new UTEube Support PostHere are nine new UI adaptations that are designed to help you find shows, podcasts and direct music. Although they are not as big as they re -design with the promise of YouTube TV experience, they should help save your time and effort when they visit a little date app.
First, there is a new ‘search’ section on the home screen, which will apparently display your first three searches. It can be very contradictory and diligent, considering the search experience on TV.
Other new parts of the home screen (which means YouTube is called ‘shelf’, for some reason) ‘Listen again’ (showing you the above songs for which you have searched) and ‘direct performances, remakes and core’.
As a person who regularly digs into the YouTube treasury, I can see myself using myself a little.
Another new section includes a ‘prime time channels’, where you can see the channels you have subscribed, such as Paramount+, Show Time, Stars, or Disney. It seems that the lines between YouTube and YouTube TV, which is its cable replacing service in the United States, may soon begin to fade.
The final new ‘shelf’ (or section) can be the most useful, as you can see in the above image, ‘from your high channels’ section provides some shortcut to your most viewed YouTube channels. This means a little disturbing subscription section should be less time.
Out of these new parts, the largest arrival is a new podcast tab. In February, YouTube noted that it is now the most famous service of listening to Podcast in the United States (according to Edison Research), So this feature is definitely understood.
Another promising upgrade is that YouTube has now divided its more mobile friendly shorts with its long form videos. Now your ‘next’ feed will have a ‘row of shorts’, as well as a dedicated shorts section in your subscription tabs.
It is not yet clear whether this means that you will never see shorts in your subscription feeds (which I will be happy), but in any way, it should make the experience clean.
If you like to play on repeating your videos, it is now possible to loop all on -demand videos on YouTube. This is a feature that was previously available only for playlists. To do this, go to the playback settings menu and select the ‘loop’ sequence.
The last UI adaptation in this era of refreshments is that ‘Inline Preview’ (which you see when we see the video thumbnail) has now been extended to the pages of channels, subscriptions and titles.
This feature will potentially divide the opinion, so this can be the most controversial of this other case positively in this case with YouTube TV experience.
This update should end soon for the YouTube app on your smart TV or gaming console, or by the end of this quarter in June. I have not yet received this on my Apple TV box, but hopefully it will soon be available on streaming boxes.
And what is coming?
Last week, YouTube celebrated its 20th birthday by re -designing its TV experience, which apparently “this summer” (or by the end of September).
The details were not extended too much, but released the aforementioned picture and promised “easy navigation” along with smooth access to comments, channel information, and subscriptions.
These upgrades appear to focus more on playback experience than new home screen improvement, but certainly they are welcomed. The biggest question is whether we will look at the wider design as well as other ‘upgrades’ as ‘pause advertising’ has been secretly added to the mix.
We have to wait to see by the end of the year, but with a new “Second Screen Experience” you can use your smartphone to communicate with the videos you are seeing, even later this year, it is clear that YouTube is changing on smart TV – and mostly for better.
