Youtube Is Testing A Floating ‘play Something’ Button

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It’s fundamentally nan YouTube balanced of Google’s ‘I’m emotion lucky’ button.

By Wes Davis, a play editor who covers nan latest successful tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and overmuch arsenic a tech journalist since 2020.

Dec 29, 2024, 9:58 PM UTC

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Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge

YouTube is testing a caller floating “Play something” fastener that will premier a video for you, 9to5Google spotted successful nan YouTube app for Android. The fastener floats conscionable supra nan bottommost barroom of nan app, and erstwhile tapped, it picks a YouTube video to play for you.

Just arsenic successful earlier versions of this characteristic YouTube’s been testing, nan caller fastener reportedly uses nan portrait-oriented YouTube Shorts subordinate to show videos, sloppy of whether they’re vertically formatted Shorts aliases modular YouTube videos. Hopefully that changes by nan clip nan characteristic gets a wide release.

Other incarnations nan institution has been testing for complete a twelvemonth spot a “Play Something” banner and a elemental fastener that looks for illustration a black-and-white YouTube logo. If nan feature’s punishment sounds familiar, perchance it’s because Netflix retired a akin random video picker past twelvemonth called “Surprise Me,” which primitively launched successful 2021 arsenic “Play Something.”

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