For almost everything to do on a smartphone, the fingers are the actors. And when it comes to navigation, it is easiest to swipe away the pages. This is what YouTube wants to add to the app’s features when viewing videos.
Previously, YouTube viewers had to active tap to move between videos, both on the site and on the app. The latest update for iOS devices will give users a way to view the next video in the list by swiping left or right.
If you swipe forward, you should view the next recommended video, while a swipe backward will resume watching the previous one. This new swipe navigation is expected to make it much easier and quicker to browse around for videos to watch.
Since most of the viewers that watch YouTube are on mobile, the company found it necessary to import more features for smaller touchscreen devices to engage this lot.
YouTube launched in 2005 as a desktop site, but currently the platform is reported to have mobile views that account for close to 70 percent of the entire traffic.
It is not clear exactly when the feature will come out for Android, but iOS users should receive the update on their devices sometime within this week.
