{"id":310921,"date":"2019-06-21T09:18:28","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T07:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=310921"},"modified":"2019-06-21T09:19:23","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T07:19:23","slug":"youtube-is-making-big-changes-to-its-mobile-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/310921-youtube-is-making-big-changes-to-its-mobile-app.html","title":{"rendered":"YouTube is making big changes to its mobile app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube is testing a new layout for its comment section on its Android app which hides comments by default, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/youtube-hiding-comments-section-android\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>XDA Developers <\/strong><\/a>reports.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, scrolling down below the player window in the YouTube app for Android will present the viewer with comments below the &#8220;Up Next&#8221; section of recommended videos.<\/p>\n<p>Some users are now reporting that the YouTube app has hidden these comments by default, implementing a dedicated &#8220;Comments&#8221; button in the bar just below the player which also includes the like, dislike, and share buttons.<\/p>\n<p>Pressing this button opens an overflow window which displays comments on the video, and users can close this window by tapping the exit icon which appears in the top-right of the redesigned comment section.<\/p>\n<p>XDA Developers reported that this change has rolled out to some Android users in India, and could launch for YouTube viewers in other countries in the near future.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/310777-chromium-based-edge-browser-now-available-for-windows-7.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Chromium-based Edge browser now available for Windows 7<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube is testing a new layout for its comment section on its Android app which hides comments by default.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":107116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[397,59623,2150],"class_list":["post-310921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-android","tag-comment-section","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}