First, let’s talk about the modifications being made to a few of the icons. The “Residence” icon, the primary one on the underside bar, is getting a small change with the roof on the home now barely wider than the edges of the wall. The “Plus” button in the course of the underside bar will not function a white round design and the “Subscriptions” icon not offers the phantasm of a number of YouTube video screens. That’s achieved by decreasing the variety of horizontal traces on prime of the icon from two to at least one.

And the largest change is the one which will likely be made to the underside bar itself. At present, the bar is translucent so for those who’re utilizing Gentle mode, will probably be white and for those who’re in Darkish mode, will probably be in black. With the change, the panel will likely be blurry with splotches of white interrupting the stable black. We won’t present you what this blurry design will appear to be in Gentle mode as a result of it seems that only a few Android customers are concerned on this check up to now.

On prime is the present YouTube backside bar and on the underside is the brand new bar being examined (notice that this consumer saved the three-button navigation). | Picture credit-9to5Google

Additionally noteworthy, the brand new design confirmed up on a cellphone that was utilizing the outdated three-button navigation system which made the bar look a lot greater in comparison with the gesture navigation model used to point out the present state of the underside bar. To reiterate, the blurred backside bar seems to be the topic of a really restricted check in the mean time.

Some YouTube subscribers are additionally going to be guinea pigs for one more check that can present suggestions for long-form movies of their YouTube Shorts feed. The objective is to present YouTube content material suppliers one other place the place their work might be found.