YouTube officially enables double-tap gesture to jump 10 seconds forward or backward

[Siva]

If you've been following along with various teardowns and reported tests, you know YouTube has been working to select an implementation for quickly and easily shifting small increments in a video's timeline. The wait appears to be over. Earlier today, the YouTube app's Play Store listing was updated to note that the quick seek feature is new in the app – that's probably about as official as we're going to see.

WHAT'S NEW

Easily rewind or skip forwards 10 seconds by double-tapping on the left and right sides of the video player.

The first evidence of a fast-forward / rewind feature appeared in a late 2015 teardown where it was originally designed to be shown as double-arrow buttons that appeared among the player controls. Over the following year, about a handful of slightly varied implementations turned up for small, randomly selected test groups. After a fairly long period without any sign that seeking was still on the roadmap, new activity appeared in a teardown last November. The following update even activated quick seek, but YouTube remotely disabled it. Since then, many people have reported being able to use the double-tap gesture, but that it would come and go intermittently or only worked on certain devices.

With an official nod in the Play Store listing, it's pretty clear the inconsistency should no longer be a problem. Since many people had quick seek working on earlier versions of the app, it's not clear if it has been remotely enabled on all versions that support it (going back to v11.47) or if you'll need the recently released v12.03 (available at APK Mirror). There's a good chance that updating the app will enable quick seek if you don't already have it. If not, wait a few days and it should be there for everybody.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/02/06/youtube-officially-enables-double-tap-gesture-to-jump-10-seconds-forward-or-backward/

 

[Sarkar]

Playstore updated

 

[iSK]

Good Move :tup

 

[Bapun]

Yes. I also found it accidentally while playing a video on YT day before yesterday.

 

[Siva]

A quick update on the usability of this feature. We can actually touch more than twice to seek forward/backward more than 10 seconds. For example, if we would like to seek forward 30 seconds, we can touch 6 times on the right side continuously to achieve that.

 

[Siva]

YouTube v12.05 adds adjustable seek times for double tap to seek

Only four days ago, YouTube officially declared that the double-tap to seek gesture had become a part of the app, giving users the capability to quickly jump 10 seconds forward or backward in the timeline. Now the development team is topping their delivery with a little bit of user-configurability. The interval of the skip was originally locked to a strict 10 seconds, but you can now set your own from a handful of other durations. You'll need the latest update to the YouTube app, which began rolling out earlier this afternoon.

In the screenshot above, the skip time shows 30 seconds instead of the 10 seconds that would have been there in previous versions. The option to have user-adjustable skip intervals was predicted in a teardown from a few weeks ago, but wasn't exactly a sure thing at the time. We were all pretty excited to see this happened. Depending on the type of videos you watch most often, 10 seconds could be too long or too short, so it's great that this is now an option.

If you want to change the seek distance, just open up Settings –> General –> Double tap to seek and select the interval you prefer. Options are in seconds and include: 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, and 60. Now you can skip as little or as much as you need.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/02/10/youtube-v12-05-adds-adjustable-seek-times-for-double-tap-to-seek-apk-download/

 

[hike]

Iys help me a lot while watching YouTube videos today.