YouTube Premium Subscribers get a new perk with launch of testing program
YouTube has long allowed its users to test new features and products before they go live to a wider audience. But in a recent change, YouTube's latest series of experiment are being limited t those who subscribe to the premium tier of YouTube service. Currently,paid subscribers are the only one able to test several new product features, including one that allows ios users to watch YouTube videos directly on the home screen.
This is not the same thing as the picture-in-picture option that's become available to app developers with IOS 14, to be clear. instead YouTube home page s to watch videos with the sound on while they scroll through their feeds.
Two other experiment are related to search. One lets you filter topics you search for by additional languages, including Spanish , french ,or Portuguese. The other lets you use your voice search to pull videos when using the chrome web browser.
None of this test will be very lengthy , however . two of the three new experiments wrap up on october 20, 2020 for example . The other wraps on October 27. And they've only been live for a few weeks.
YouTube says the option to test the features was highlighted to premium subscribers a few weeks ago within the YouTube app. It's also the first time that YouTube has run an experimentation program tied to the premium service.
The company didn't make a formal public announcement, but the addition was just spotted by several blogs, including XDA Developers and Android Central, For example.
Contrary to some reports, however it doesn't appear that YouTube's intention is to close off all its experiments to anyone except its paid subscribers.
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