Replace your YouTube TV app proper now for a free improve

For those who use the YouTube app in your TV typically, you would possibly discover a shock the following time you open it. YouTube has up to date the watch display screen on its TV app with a redesigned structure, transferring and refreshing a number of consumer interface components to create what it calls a “extra intuitive expertise with simpler navigation.”

One of many largest adjustments is the place video titles now seem. Beforehand, titles sat simply above the video timeline and have been clickable to open channel info. Within the new structure, they have been moved to the highest of the display screen and are not clickable.

To exchange that performance, YouTube has added a brand new “Description” button. In keeping with the corporate, it “replaces the clickable title to view video metadata, feedback, and creator particulars.” You may discover the Description button within the bottom-left nook of the watch display screen, slightly below the timeline.

“We’re excited to announce that we have refreshed the look of the YouTube watch web page on TVs,” YouTube mentioned in a blog post. “Get pleasure from a smoother, extra intuitive expertise with simpler navigation, higher management accessibility, and fewer interruptions. Engagement options are additionally extra accessible and visual, permitting followers to raised have interaction with their favourite channels.”

YouTube has additionally reorganized the controls on its TV watch display screen, grouping them into three sections beneath the video timeline. On the left are the Channel, Description, and Subscribe buttons. Within the heart are the Earlier, Play/Pause, and Subsequent controls. And on the best, you may discover the Like, Dislike, Remark, Save, Closed Captions, and Settings choices.

The brand new watch display screen is rolling out now

General, I am a fan of the adjustments

If you wish to strive the brand new watch display screen, YouTube is at the moment rolling it out, so it ought to seem in your TV quickly if it hasn’t already. To get the replace, be certain computerized app updates are enabled in your TV or streaming machine. If not, you might must manually replace the YouTube app by way of your TV’s app retailer. On my Fire TV Stick 4K Max and LG TV working webOS, the replace is already dwell. For those who do not see it but, even with the newest model, it is probably as a result of it is nonetheless rolling out, and you need to see it very quickly.

There are a few different adjustments that YouTube has additionally added with this replace, together with what it calls an “Enhanced Subscribe Button,” which, in response to the corporate, “is now all the time seen and can adapt for pay-gated content material and ‘Notify Me’ for upcoming dwell streams.” There are additionally new controls, together with a brand new “Multiview” choice for dwell sports activities, and Music and Premium subscribers will see an choice for “Show Mode.”

It is price noting that these adjustments are arriving fairly late, as again in April, YouTube said its “TV viewing improve” would roll out “this summer time,” however as a substitute it is rolling out two weeks earlier than Christmas. Higher late than by no means, I suppose.

I’ve watched a couple of movies with the brand new watch display screen, and I am a fan. It feels extra streamlined than earlier than, and the general structure appears cleaner. Shifting the title to the highest of the display screen works effectively, and the brand new Description button makes it a lot clearer the place to seek out that data, because it was beforehand tucked away behind clicking the title. The reorganized controls additionally make sense, with every group neatly separated reasonably than every little thing crammed collectively. General, it is a stable replace, and if you happen to watch YouTube in your TV as a lot as I do, I believe you may respect the enhancements.