YouTube’s update to the TV app makes it much easier to watch video highlights
Do you like watching the excellent YouTube content with free tutorials, unboxing videos and old intros of cartoons you loved in the 90s on the big screen, that is, on your TV? You’re not alone, although watching YouTube videos on your TV does come with its own set of obstacles.
The most notable of these is that your TV almost certainly doesn’t have a touchscreen (and YouTube’s TV app isn’t set up to take advantage of this), so you’ll have to rely on your TV’s remote to find the part of a clip you wanted really see, where navigating with a finger on your device is often a lot faster.
YouTube gets it. The video-sharing and social media platform (owned by Google) has made several changes to its TV app, the latest of which aims to make it easier for viewers to cut through long intros to get to the best parts of the video. come. am watching.
Not to be confused with the AI-powered recommendation system being tested for YouTube Premium, the YouTube app for TVs now automatically generates key moments in videos, which viewers can then access without having to guess on the progress bar at the bottom.
CEO at YouTube, Neal Mohan, announced the update in a Tweet on X (formerly Twitter) below.
We know that viewers enjoy watching YouTube in the living room and we continue to innovate to make the TV experience even better. Now you can easily access automatically generated key moments from any video. Check it out the next time you watch YouTube on your TV… pic.twitter.com/qRTHw695aXApril 2, 2024
As noted by Android AuthorityWhen you watch videos on YouTube on your TV, pull up the video progress bar should now showing some white marks – I tried this with a few videos and couldn’t see them, but it could still be rolled out in the UK where I’m based.
The mentioned white marks are the new automatically generated key moments in your video! You should also be able to quickly scroll through them with your remote. YouTube on TV also reportedly gives you a thumbnail of the key moment, along with a caption, so you know if this is the segment you’re looking for.
It’s worth noting that since early 2020, content creators have been able to manually create ‘chapters’ to help viewers cut crucial parts of their videos, but this feature helps bridge the gap if an uploader didn’t – or for older videos and clips that were uploaded before the specific content management benefit arrived.