YouTube rolling out playback speed redesign on Android, iOS

Last month, YouTube announced a host of new features. After the new miniplayer and settings revamp, YouTube is rolling out the fine-tunable redesign of playback speed controls in the Android and iOS app. 

Previously, Playback speed opened up a tall sheet of increments that almost took up half your screen: 0.25x, 0.5x, 0.75x, Normal, 1.25x, 1.5x, 1.75x, and 2x. (That UI is used by the sleep timer.)

Now, it’s now a much shorter UI at the very bottom of your display that’s easier to reach. The bottom row gives you five preset increments housed in pill-shaped containers: 0.25, 1.0 (Normal), 1.25, 1.5, and 2.0.

The big addition is a slider that you can adjust in .5 increments by dragging, or using the ‘plus’ and ‘minus’ buttons. The current increment is noted above.

We’re seeing this redesign of playback speed today as a server-side update with version 19.43 of YouTube for Android and 19.44 for iOS.

More on YouTube:

• YouTube for Android TV adds prominent ‘Subscribe’ button to player UI
• YouTube hyperlinked comments starting to appear more widely on mobile
• YouTube for Android rolls out new miniplayer, settings redesign
• YouTube redesign tweaks bottom bar, adds frosted glass, new landscape mode, more