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YouTube Rolls Out a Redesigned Video Player and People Aren't Happy — Here's What's Different
YouTube introduces an updated video player with interactive controls and visual cues to enhance user engagement and navigation, rolling out globally this week.
- On October 13, YouTube began rolling out a redesigned video player across Android, iOS, web and TV apps, launching the update globally this week.
- YouTube said the redesign aims to offer a `cleaner and more immersive` YouTube interface and started testing changes earlier this year to make it easier to navigate.
- On mobile , most controls now sit in a left-side pill, Like button and others are grouped, play/pause centers, and additional controls move below the progress bar.
- Users will get quality-of-life changes like smoother saving to Watch Later and playlists, while Google says mobile tabs will transition more seamlessly but rollout timing is unclear.
- The redesign follows a major mobile UI overhaul less than two weeks earlier and reuses icons from YouTube Music as Google aligns the YouTube family of apps' energy with creators.
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