Beforehand, the YoutTube TV app had its mini-player docked on the backside bar. This system title was overlaid with a progress bar on this setup. You had a really large crop of what was taking part in with the play and pause button on the proper. A faucet or swipe can deliver again the fullscreen interface. This design was just like the outdated expertise within the YouTube app, and the present controls in YouTube Music.

With the brand new replace, YouTube TV’s mini-player is now an in-app picture-in-picture window. The play-pause button is surrounded by the buttons to skip and rewind for 15 seconds. You may faucet the middle button to broaden again to the principle display of the app.

Similar to within the YouTube app, you’ll be able to pinch-to-zoom and have the participant span the total width of your display. This alteration makes the mini-player extra usable than the earlier one. Nonetheless, by default, the mini-player window remains to be fairly small.

The brand new mini-player design appears to be rolled out with model 8.47.0 of YouTube TV for Android. This addition makes the expertise between the completely different YouTube-branded apps extra unified.

Some individuals could like this new design because the picture-in-picture mini-player permits you extra management in a extra intuitive method than the earlier one. I agree that it is good to have whilst you browse completely different content material within the app, and I do like additionally the truth that Google is engaged on unifying its completely different apps underneath the YouTube umbrella to look and work equally.

It is a bit complicated although as some individuals have observed the outdated YouTube mini-player again not too long ago. We’ll see what path YouTube goes, however in all probability, the brand new mini-player we’re seeing right here could also be it.