YouTube Music has been up to date with a Recently Played widget for smartphones operating Android 12, that includes play and pause controls, together with a like button. The widget is accessible on the newest model of YouTube Music and gives comparable performance as music widgets on iOS. Users will be capable to use the widget in three measurement choices, relying on their dwelling display structure, with the widget structure adapting accordingly. YouTube Music now has three widgets, Now Playing, Turntable, and Recently Played, which provide theming integration with Android 12.

Back in October, Google rolled out a brand new ‘Turntable’ widget for YouTube Music customers operating Android 12, which shows the duvet artwork of presently taking part in observe, together with a button to play or pause on the backside and a like button on the prime. Google has now rolled out the brand new Recently Played widget for customers operating Android 12 on their smartphones, as spotted by 9to5Google.

The widget was one of many new Material You widgets marketed together with the Pixel 6 collection and permits customers to leap again into playlists or albums, or re-watch movies with a single faucet. The performance is much like music widgets for Spotify and Apple Music that have been launched on iOS 14, that additionally supply shortcuts to beforehand performed tracks, playlists, and albums.

Google has been busy pushing updates to its apps and tweaking the default theme and layouts to combine higher with the Material You design launched on Android 12. Apart from YouTube Music, different apps like Google Play Books, Google Maps, Google Photos, Google Calendar, and Google News are additionally slated to obtain new widgets.

Once added to the house display, customers can resize the widget from a 5×2 structure to 5×4 to indicate more moderen content material. For these in search of a extra compact structure, the widget may also be resized to a 5×1 structure, and even 4×1, however this may disguise the play/ pause controls and like button. Both Turntable and the brand new Recently Played widgets will assist ‘Dynamic Color’ and Material You assist for customers on Android 12.

YouTube Music customers who’ve up to date to the newest model (4.45.55) of the Android app ought to be capable to add the brand new widgets to their dwelling display. However, the widgets seem like enabled by a server-side swap, so some customers might have to attend earlier than it’s enabled on their smartphones.