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TL;DR
- YouTube TV is reportedly getting a brand new mini-player on the Android app.
- The design docks a floating PiP mini-player on the backside of the app’s display.
- The mini-player matches the controversial one which Google adopted for the primary YouTube app earlier this yr.
YouTube TV for Android is borrowing the controversial picture-in-picture mini-player from the primary YouTube app. Beforehand, the mini-player was docked on the backside of the app, similar to the first YouTube app, which is now switching again to the old-school design.
9to5Google experiences that the brand new PiP-style YouTube TV mini-player is now obtainable with model 8.47.0 of the Android app. The mini-player encompasses a play/pause button, 15-second rewind and ahead buttons, and a button to shut the window. Customers can pinch to zoom the window.
It’s unusual that Google would undertake this new mini-player for YouTube TV after the backlash it confronted for the same mini-player change it beforehand made on the YouTube app. In July, Google rolled out a floating picture-in-picture (PiP) mini-player within the YouTube app. Whereas some customers didn’t thoughts the brand new design, there have been many who disliked it and reported that it was full of glitches.
Final month, customers noticed that YouTube is returning to its authentic design, with the stationary mini-player docked simply above the app’s backside bar. Many expressed reduction over this revert and welcomed the return of the outdated mini-player.
Right here’s hoping that YouTube TV’s new mini-player design is much less glitchy and simpler to make use of than what we received with the YouTube app.
