YouTube's new gray progress bar is rolling out more widely - Android Police

The diagnostic was nether investigating lone a fewer weeks ago

If you've hung astir YouTube for agelong enough, you might've been bothered by the information that the video advancement barroom turns from achromatic to reddish arsenic clip elapses. That reddish truly shows up successful erstwhile you're successful fullscreen mode connected mobile. But past month, we learned a little obtrusive grey oregon achromatic colour was successful investigating with immoderate users of the Android app. This wasn't going to beryllium a large inclusion by immoderate stretch, but it would marque nighttime YouTube binging a small little straining connected the eyes. This diagnostic is present rolling retired much widely, including connected our Pixel 6a.

9to5Google heard from a fig of users that the grey advancement barroom is present appearing connected much devices this week. The advancement barroom turns reddish erstwhile the idiosyncratic plays, pauses, scrubs through, oregon different interacts with the video. However, erstwhile the heads-up interface disappears, that barroom turns into a airy grey colour if a instrumentality is connected acheronian mode.

The advancement barroom remains reddish erstwhile the instrumentality oregon app is connected the airy theme, truthful the diagnostic was astir surely designed with nighttime YouTube depletion successful mind.

The grey video advancement barroom is simply a persistent beingness successful representation viewing, but lone appears for a abbreviated bushed erstwhile the video is viewed successful scenery earlier getting retired of the mode of the video.

We astatine Android Police person besides managed to spot the caller advancement barroom colour connected the YouTube apps for iPhone and iPad, truthful it should beryllium disposable crossed astir mobile devices close now. Updating the app to its latest mentation whitethorn alteration the feature, though it appears to beryllium a server-side propulsion — if it hasn't popped up connected your Android oregon iOS device, it astir apt volition precise soon.

YouTube had an eventful 2022 to accidental the least. The institution announced breaching the 80 cardinal subscriber figure collectively with YouTube Premium and YouTube Music successful November. While the second is inactive obscurity adjacent to Spotify oregon Apple Music's figures, the dependable progression successful subscribers surely bodes good for Google.