Little by little, YouTube is being completely updated to further improve this service owned by Google. Last month they released a design change to their popular video platform and now we’ve just learned that YouTube for Android has new home screen widgets that offer some very cool features.
The colleagues at 9to5Google have discovered these new options offered by YouTube widgets to improve the user experience with an Android phone or tablet.
That these new widgets arrived a few weeks ago to the Apple operating system so if you have an iPhone you can already use these new tools of the video platform owned by Google.
This is what the new YouTube widgets offer
Regarding the functionality offered by the new YouTube widgets for Android phones and tablets, it should be noted that to start now there is a new option called “Search YouTube” and that will allow you to search much faster.
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At the moment in which I put on this button you will see that the YouTube application opens automatically in search mode and with the keyboard and activated so you only have to write what you want.
On the other hand, the new YouTube widget for Android tIt also includes new quick actions beyond searching. All you have to do is select the size of the widget that interests you the most.
In this way, depending on the size you will have more or less functions at your fingertips. For example, the YouTube widget that measures 4X2 has additional features, such as search mode or quick actions.
As for the design of the new YouTube widgets, the Mountain View-based giant has adapted this element to the Android Material You style and that take advantage of Dynamic Color.
According to the release date of these widgetsit seems that Google is implementing them in YouTube versions for Android 17.43.36, so you should only update the app to enjoy this new tool.
Therefore, if you have this version of the YouTube app for Android you should know that you can already use these widgets. In the event that this is not the case, we invite you to have a little patience since it seems that this new deployment has been global, so in a few days it will reach all users.
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