YouTube Announces Major Updates for YouTube TV and Premium Features
A summer redesign, expanded multiview capabilities, AI-powered music personalization, and enhanced playback controls highlight YouTube’s latest announcements.
Overview
- YouTube TV is set to undergo a major user interface redesign this summer, promising easier navigation, improved playback, and streamlined access to comments, channel information, and subscriptions.
- The multiview feature on YouTube TV will expand beyond sports, allowing users to customize split-screen feeds with select non-sports channels, starting with a small group and growing over time.
- YouTube is soft-launching 'Ask Music,' an AI-powered feature that creates personalized radio stations based on user descriptions, available to Premium and Music subscribers in select countries on iOS and Android.
- YouTube Premium subscribers on mobile can now play videos at up to 4× speed, doubling the previous maximum playback speed.
- Creators will gain broader access to voice-note replies, enabling them to respond to video comments more interactively.