YouTube is testing a brand new cellular app function with its premium subscribers that permits them to zoom in on any video. As noted by 9to5Google, the newest opt-in experimental function permits a pinch-to-zoom gesture for movies — and it really works each in portrait and full-screen panorama view.

According to the corporate, the zoom function will stay in testing till September 1st, giving YouTube a couple of month to assemble person suggestions and refine issues earlier than probably rolling it out extra broadly.

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To allow pinch to zoom, open YouTube’s settings menu both in your telephone or from the web site. As lengthy as you’re subscribed to YouTube Premium, there needs to be a “try new features” part. Right now, the one function out there for testing is the zoom operate. It appears there may be a delay between opting in to the check and truly with the ability to use the pinch gesture, as I used to be unable to zoom in nearer on any movies instantly after toggling it on. But as soon as it’s lively, you must have the ability to zoom in at as much as 8x.

There are already methods to zoom in on YouTube’s content material with varied accessibility capabilities on Android and iOS, and clearly it’s very simple to take action in a desktop browser. But having it as an non-obligatory native function within the cellular app is all of the extra handy. Last month, YouTube lastly delivered picture-in-picture mode for iPhone and iPad after first testing it amongst premium prospects; that vastly helpful function has lengthy been out there on Android.