In 2024, YouTube Music switched to quarterly “New Options Highlights,” however skipped the Q3 version. Google is now again with a cumulative listing to summarize the second half of the 12 months in launches.

The December 2024 version launched final week covers July to November. 

July

August

• Ask Music: Protection 
• Cellular app launch animation: Protection
  • “This contributes to a smoother and quicker app launch expertise.”
• Share counts: “When viewing a track or video, you’ll now see what number of occasions it has been shared by different listeners.”

September

• Radio Builder on Advisable Radios shelf
• Improved podcast suggestions: “We’ve made updates to the advice logic which now takes under consideration extra alerts like your listening historical past and different preferences.”
• Podcast high outcome with unfinished episode: “If in case you have an unfinished podcast episode, will probably be proven as a high outcome whenever you seek for that podcast.”

October

• Customized playlist cowl artwork: Protection
• Pace Dial: Protection
• Artist header redesign: Protection
  • “You’ll now discover it simpler to get to key actions on the Artist element web page – due to a redesigned header! You’ll see choices to subscribe to the artist and begin an artist radio.”
• Artist high listener badges: Protection
• Playlist import: Protection
• Simplified swipe-to-remove: “Managing your playlists on cell units is now extra intuitive. A single swipe motion is all it takes so that you can take away a track from a playlist! Solely on cell.”

• Improved Haptics on Android “We’ve improved the haptics expertise on Android. You might now really feel some delicate buzzes reactive to your contact throughout actions corresponding to pull to refresh, double faucet to love, and voice/sound search.”
• Panorama Mode on iOS: Now you can browse the YouTube Music app in panorama mode on iOS. It is a observe as much as the Android panorama launch final 12 months.
• Deep linking so as to add podcast by URL: “Podcast suppliers can now create hyperlinks that immediately open YouTube Music and pre-fill the “add podcast by URL” dialog field. This makes it a lot easier so that you can add podcasts to your library from numerous sources – like your favourite Podcast creator’s web site!”
• Podcasts on Android Auto and Apple CarPlay: “In case you’re an ad-supported listener, now you can hearken to podcasts by YouTube Music whereas utilizing Android Auto or Apple CarPlay. Beforehand, this was solely obtainable to Premium members or these with uploaded music content material!”
• Improve prompts: “To make sure you have the very best expertise, older variations of the YouTube Music app will see prompts encouraging you to replace to the newest model.”

November

• 2024 Recap: Protection
• Pin perform on Pace Dial: Protection
• Remark sharing: Faucet three-dot overflow menu

• Improved playlist sorting: “You now have extra management over how your playlists are organized on the YouTube Music web site. Type them by title, artist, date added, and extra, similar to you possibly can within the cell app.”
• Collaborative playlists: “Now you can create playlists along with pals! Everybody invited to a collaborative playlist can add movies, making it good for events, highway journeys, or any event the place you wish to share music with others. We’re additionally engaged on including extra options to collaborative playlists, like the flexibility to vote to your favourite songs.”