Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority
TL; DR
- The latest YouTube app update contains two prominent bugs that are frustrating users.
- The app’s picture-in-picture mini-player disappears from the screen when users try to launch it.
- Users also cannot resume paused videos unless they go to full-screen landscape mode.
YouTube test one new gesture change which swipes to the next video instead of leaving the video player in full screen. While that change appears to be a limited test, the latest app update being rolled out widely brings two rather annoying bugs to the video streaming app.
Starting with the first bug in the latest update to the YouTube app, the picture-in-picture mini-player is broken, preventing many users from accessing it reliably. Reddit user a1200i This video highlights that the mini player disappears from the screen if you place it on the right side of the screen.
Many users also complain that if you pause a video, you cannot resume it until you expand the video to full screen. Reddit user zombie_c highlights this bug in the video below:
It looks like the bugs are present on YouTube for Android, but not in the iOS version of the app. We tried the latest available update on both platforms and were unable to replicate both bugs. It is possible that Google has stopped the rollout of the buggy update, although given the number of complaints we assume that the buggy update has reached many users.
We reached out to Google to highlight these bugs and the app’s swipe gesture change test. We will update this article when we hear from them.
Have you encountered these bugs in the latest YouTube update? If yes, what problem did you face and on what platform? Let us know in the comments below!
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