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TL;DR
- YouTube Music is getting a quick-access “Velocity dial” grid with songs you’ve just lately performed.
- Google formally introduced the characteristic on October 24, 2023.
- YouTube Music additionally will get some refined modifications to the way in which it shows menus.
Google giveth, and Google taketh away. Typically Google drops a brand new characteristic on us out of the blue, and it simply immediately catches on and turns into part of our lives just about in a single day. However the firm additionally has a behavior of dragging issues out, and generally we’ll see a characteristic pop out and in of existence again and again as the corporate tries to get issues good. Right now we’re wanting on the return of 1 change that YouTube Music has been flirting with for nicely over a yr now, because the app’s “Velocity dial” strategies make a return.
Again in September of 2023, YouTube Music was testing a UI tweak that changed the “Hear once more” observe itemizing with this new “Velocity dial.” After which this week final yr, Google formally introduced “Velocity dial,” even when it wasn’t going to right away be out there for everybody:
Within the coming months, we’ll be launching a brand new characteristic on the House tab that can allow you to shortly discover and hearken to the songs and artists you’ve bought on repeat. Merely open the YouTube Music app and proper on the prime of the House tab, you’ll be greeted by your most listened to music content material, making it simple so that you can soar again into your present favorites.
Effectively, it could have taken its candy time in getting right here, however as 9to5Google noticed, and we’re capable of verify on our personal units, Google lastly appears to be flipping the change and bringing “Velocity dial” to YouTube Music customers in all places:
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Functionally, it’s only a fast one-tap approach to soar proper again into listening to one among your latest favorites. For one thing so impossibly easy, it’s somewhat loopy that it took Google a stable yr to roll it out, however at the very least it’s right here now. In comparison with the previous interface, this feels so much tighter, squeezing 9 tracks or playlists into an space not a lot bigger than the place we bought six earlier than — and you may all the time swipe over for much more.
Individually from this long-overdue addition, 9to5Google noticed one other change that appears to be presently hitting YouTube Music: Overflow menus now open in a rounded-corner floating window.
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It’s only a refined change from the previous overflow menus that stuffed the width of the display, and arrives alongside facet different minor tweaks like dropping the rainbow highlighting round solid targets. Test the YouTube Music app in your telephone or pill to see in case you’ve gotten all these modifications, too.
