YouTube Testing ‘Add To Queue’ Feature for Android, iOS: Report

YouTube has began testing out an ‘Add to Queue’ characteristic on its Android and iOS apps. Currently, the characteristic has been made accessible for testing to YouTube Premium subscribers solely. So far, the cell app variations of YouTube, on each iOS and Android, have solely been recognized to characteristic ‘Save To Watch Later’ and ‘Save To Playlist’ options for deliberate playback. These save the video onto the person’s library and wishes handbook elimination for deleting a track from the listing. Notably, YouTube’s Add To Queue has been accessible on the net model for a while now.

According to a report by 9to5Google, the Add to Queue characteristic is offered for testing on Android and iOS apps for under YouTube Premium accounts. The choice will characteristic on the high of the three-dot overflow menu situated subsequent to the video meta and thumbnail.

Once a person provides a video to the queue, YouTube will show a panel on the backside of the web page showcasing the viewing order of movies which are in line to play subsequent. The panel could be interacted with by drag and drop gestures for re-ordering the queue, whereas swipe left gesture will take away a video from the playlist.

Users who’re YouTube Premium subscribers and would need to check out the brand new characteristic could achieve this by heading to the Try New Features part from the profile menu on the YouTube utility on their Android or iOS gadgets.

Although Youtube hasn’t listed the characteristic on their assist web site for YouTube on Google Play Store, a Gadgets 360 workers member was capable of entry the characteristic on their Android cellphone.

The Alphabet-owned video-sharing platform had additionally lately launched improved spam and abuse detection mechanisms to its platform at a time when social media corporations are dealing with elevated scrutiny over their incapacity to restrict abuse and harassment.