In addition to a slew of new features, the YouTube UI is getting some design updates across mobile, web, and TV. These visual improvements, including a subtle frosted glass effect, aim to “simplify” YouTube.
Across all platforms, you’re getting an updated bottom bar (or navigation rail) with tweaked icons for Home, the ‘plus’ menu, Subscriptions, and You. There’s also a new frosted glass effect for both the top and bottom navigation bars for a more immersive browsing experience that shows what’s underneath on mobile and web.
Keep an eye out for new pops of pink, as well as other light touches that add dynamism to the YouTube you know and love.
In the YouTube Music web app, there’s already some pink at the end of the scrubber.
Mobile YouTube is getting an improved landscape mode that has larger thumbnails and bigger text, as well as greater responsiveness. This is rolling out first to Android and will come to iOS “later this year.”
On televisions, YouTube is introducing “subtle touches give everything a more cinematic feel.” For example, immersive channel pages will auto-play a Creator-selected video to provide a teaser and let you easily play the full video.
A new Shorts player on TV lets you read comments or browse the shop “without interrupting the viewing experience.”
In all, YouTube has announced “over two dozen improvements” today.
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