{"id":43152,"date":"2022-02-07T14:47:16","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T10:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=43152"},"modified":"2022-02-07T14:47:18","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T10:47:18","slug":"youtubes-video-player-is-getting-a-new-look-on-android-and-ios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2022\/02\/07\/youtubes-video-player-is-getting-a-new-look-on-android-and-ios\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube\u2019s video player is getting a new look on Android and iOS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>YouTube is rolling out a new interface for its mobile app\u2019s full-screen player, which should make it easier to like or dislike a video (privately, of course), view comments, and share what you\u2019re watching. The old version hid most of those features behind a swipe-up gesture on the \u201cmore videos\u201d section, where the new version puts them front and center, relegating related videos to a button in the corner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The change only shows up when you\u2019re watching in full screen \u2014 the app looks largely the same when you\u2019re watching a video in portrait mode. Doing so, however, used to come with the upside of having easy access to the share button and other controls. Now, you\u2019re getting that when watching in landscape view as well.<br><br>You\u2019re also now able to easily access the mode that lets you see comments alongside the video while in landscape. Before the new UI, you had to tap on the comment section while in portrait mode to open it up, then switch into full-screen mode. Now, you can pull them up by tapping the comment button.<br><br>The new UI is coming to both iOS and Android, and started rolling out Monday, according to Google spokesperson Allison Toh.<br><br>The Verge<br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube is rolling out a new interface for its mobile app\u2019s full-screen player, which should make it easier to like or dislike a video (privately, of course), view comments, and share what you\u2019re watching. The old version hid most of those features behind a swipe-up gesture on the \u201cmore videos\u201d section, where the new version &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43155,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43152\/revisions\/43155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}