Youtube Premium Gets More Experimental Features That Can Now Be Tested All At Once

YouTube Premium users are getting a slew of caller experiments to effort retired earlier anyone different alongside an action to trim their rank costs erstwhile bundling subscriptions. Subscribers tin now too mobility up to proceedings aggregate experimental features each astatine once, alternatively of being constricted to conscionable 1 astatine a time.

There are respective caller experiments that users tin effort out, including 256kbps bitrate audio worth connected videos, and options for iOS users to position YouTube shorts successful picture-in-picture mode and automatically download “recommended Shorts” for offline viewing. The AI-powered skipping characteristic that allows users to jump correct to nan most-watched information of a video is too disposable connected web browsers aft initially being introduced for mobile devices past year.

These will yet beryllium joined by expanded playback options for mobile devices that tin summation video velocity by up to 4 times. YouTube hasn’t mentioned erstwhile this experimental characteristic will beryllium available, however, only that it’s coming “soon.”

YouTube is too rolling retired a woody that makes YouTube Premium a smidge cheaper erstwhile you acquisition it arsenic a bundle pinch Google’s unreality storage. The relationship is eligible connected Google One Premium plans (which commencement astatine $9.99 per play for 2TB) aliases higher, but you’ll only prevention $2 per play connected YouTube Premium — bringing nan worth backmost to 2023 levels.