YouTube has been toying around with the idea of an "Explore" tab for quite some time, and now the company is finally rolling it out to all mobile users.
YouTube is rolling out the ‘Explore’ tab to all mobile users
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YouTube Music is upgrading the player page with an all-new look with lyric support and more
YouTube Music is rolling out an all-new design for its player page, giving listeners a more enhanced experience.
YouTube TV is ending support for App Store subscriptions starting March 13
If you prefer to subscribe to third-party services directly through the App Store, and you happen to subscribe to YouTube TV, there's a bit of a change coming next month.
YouTube is contemplating a new subscription feature similar to Apple TV Channels
YouTube may be prepping a new subscription feature that is similar to Apple TV Channels.
Finally cancelling subscription services to save my wallet
After reading our commentary on avoiding App Store subscription fatigue, I felt like I could tighten the belt as well. I have a lot of software, streaming, and entertainment subscriptions to help keep my ear to the ground for the site.
Being in the streaming-know comes with the territory, but for normal consumers, picking a few quality digital subscriptions is most important. As a new year clicked over, taking stock in my monthly cash outflow was important to re-adjust budgeting. Cancelling subscription service dollars is important for a healthier budget.
Super Bowl LIV musical performances will be available to watch as a ‘visual album’ in Apple Music
The next "Big Game", Super Bowl LIV, is happening on Sunday, February 2. Which of course means another high-profile halftime show as well.
Apple, Amazon, and others are allegedly streaming unlicensed music
Music is all over the place, which means there are a lot of licensing deals out there to make sure royalties are paid.
How to filter your Subscriptions feed on the YouTube app
Learn how to filter your YouTube subscriptions in the iPhone or Android app to quickly find what interests you and cut down on your backlog of unwatched videos.
This tweak makes YouTube videos look nicer on notched iPhones
When watching videos in the YouTube app for iOS, those with notched handsets can view them one of two ways when the handset is in landscape orientation: 1) zoomed out such that the notch remains hidden in the video’s black side border; and 2) zoomed in such that the notch physically cuts into the video frame. Switching between these modes is as easy as using a pinch gesture while a video is playing.
As you might have noticed by now, some YouTube videos take better advantage of the wider display canvas, filling the display up to where the notch begins. This usually depends solely on the aspect ratio of the videographer’s filming equipment, but with the help of a new jailbreak tweak called UniZoom by iOS developer Lavie Gariv, users can synthetically impose similar scaling effects on virtually any video on YouTube.
YouTube Music now supports Siri integration
Apple made some important changes with iOS 13, one of the biggest being allowing third-party music streaming apps to work directly with Siri.
AVPlayerPlus supercharges iOS’ native video player with useful new gestures
Whenever you tap on a video in the mobile Safari web browser, such as on YouTube or otherwise, iOS displays that video in a familiar interface called the AVPlayer, which appears in the screenshot example above.
Like most video players, iOS’ native AVPlayer provides only the fundamental controls to and get things done, but with the help of a newly released and free jailbreak tweak called AVPlayerPlus by iOS developer Tr1fecta, you can enjoy several more luxury controls in the native AVPlayer interface that Apple never bothered to provide to you out of the box.
This jailbreak tweak lets you play videos in the background via Safari
While refreshing my sources in Cydia this week, I happened upon a particularly interesting jailbreak tweak dubbed playbackSafari by iOS developer CydiaGeek. Intrigued by the name and the brief description provided in Cydia’s ‘Changes’ tab, I tapped on the tweak to learn more about it, and I’m glad that I did.
With playbackSafari, you can begin playing a video in the Safari web browser and then close the app or lock your device without experiencing interruptions to the playback. While leaving the app would prevent you from watching the video, it’s worth noting that the audio continues playing in the background.