YouTube has unveiled a series of over two dozen product improvements that will roll out over the next several weeks and months.
The new updates, which were unveiled in a blog post Tuesday, including highly requested features such as customizable playback speeds, improved browsing for iOS users, visual improvements in order to help simplify the app and a sleep timer, which will automatically pause videos after a certain duration of time.
Other changes include a new mini video player that can be resized and moved around in the YouTube mobile app to allow users to multitask, collaborative playlists that can be shared with friends and family using a QR code, custom thumbnails for playlists that can be created using their own photos or generative AI and the ability for users to vote on videos in playlists.