{"id":466121,"date":"2022-10-26T09:21:35","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T07:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=466121"},"modified":"2022-10-26T09:21:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T07:21:35","slug":"youtube-rolls-out-redesigned-user-interface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/466121-youtube-rolls-out-redesigned-user-interface.html","title":{"rendered":"YouTube rolls out redesigned user interface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google-owned video streaming platform YouTube is rolling out a redesigned user interface and a slew of new features, the company announced in a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.youtube\/news-and-events\/an-updated-look-and-feel-for-youtube\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog post<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>YouTube said the changes are the result of input from thousands of viewers worldwide and that the redesign will improve how users watch videos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStarting today, we are rolling out a new look and several features that offer a more modern and immersive viewing experience while also improving how users watch videos,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>YouTube links in video descriptions have been changed to buttons, and action buttons, such as like, share and download, have been redesigned to reduce distractions.<\/p>\n<p>The company has also introduced a pinch-to-zoom and precise video-seeking feature to the platform.<\/p>\n<p>The video-seeking feature lets users drag or swipe up to access a scrollable row of thumbnails to navigate a video.<\/p>\n<p>According to YouTube, the revamped app leverages dynamic colour sampling to provide a subtle effect in the background that adapts to match the colour of the video being played.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it had also made the platform\u2019s Dark Mode even darker so that colours on web, mobile, and smart TV platforms \u201ctruly pop on your screen\u201d.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/466035-spotify-gives-four-south-african-podcasts-slice-of-r1-8-million.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Spotify gives four South African podcasts slice of R1.8 million<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The redesigned interface adds new features like pinch-to-zoom and precise video-seeking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":466127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[32030,167,3476,2150],"class_list":["post-466121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-alphabet","tag-google","tag-video-streaming","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466121"}],"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\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466143,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466121\/revisions\/466143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}