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YouTube Picture In Picture Mode In Any Android Device

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Android Oreo has brought the users the most awaited features of all time the YouTube’s picture in picture mode feature, but those who have got devices that run on Android Oreo or highly only will be able to enjoy this feature and what happens to the maximum number of people who haven’t had Oreo run devices, don’t worry you can still enjoy this feature by getting this feature on your device regardless of the platform that your device is running on.

There are a bunch of applications available in the Google play store that offer the users with this feature and we present you with some of the best applications that you can try your hands on. So, here we go

Android Apps To Try For Getting Picture In Picture Mode

Float Tube Video Player

This can be your perfect choice for getting this wonderful feature on your device. You can get this application downloaded and installed on your device for free like you do any other application and it is even pretty easy to use it and all you need to do is just play the video on YouTube, then click on the share option right below the video, click it, and then select the Float Tube Video Player Option and it will open a floating window with the video that you have shared. It is that easy, so do try it.

Floating Apps (Multitasking)

You can get this application for free from the Android play store, so get it downloaded and installed on your device and you need to grant it a few permissions that it will ask you when you first open the application. This will place an icon on the notification bar which you can further customize. Tap on it and then select YouTube which will open a floating window of YouTube, now browse and play your desired video.

Telegram Bot

If you use Telegram text messaging and chatting application, then you must know that there are apps for various services in that application and the popular video sharing platform even has a bot there. The bot allows you to browse and play videos without actually leaving the chat application and you can even play the videos in the picture in picture mode in that app. Tap on the button on the top right corner of the pip window to return back to the app.

So, we hope from these many ways, you may find one to enjoy this feature.

Chrome Extension For Searching YouTube Content

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YouTube, the source for entertainments for many of us these days as it can be accessed from across various devices. It even has lots of interesting stuff in it. YouTube not only has entertaining stuff, there are tonnes of educative and knowledge gaining stuff but it all depends on how you see it and use it.

Chrome Extension For Better YouTube Search

But sometimes searching for the video on a certain topic that are wishing to know or else switching to the particular part of a video can be a tiresome task, but this task will be going to be a really simple and easy one with the help of a simple Chrome extension and that is the Invideo for YouTube , you can get this application from Google’s Chrome web store for free, you can get this extension for free.

This wonderful extension actually helps you to save a lot of your time. It enables you to search for the YouTube content pretty easily. You can search for the videos by using the keywords that have been used in the video. Once you download and install the Chrome extension on your browser, you are all set to use it. And after you will start to see an Open Invideo button added next to the YouTube video title. You can just click on that button and it will get activated.

And this tool will allow you to perform two handy actions. This tool not only allows you to search for the videos using keywords. But you can even also suggest keywords for the videos that you are watching. The extension will by default display the transcriptions for the video. But at the same time, you will also be provided with an option to switch the languages as per your choice and wish. So, do get this handy Chrome extension and make life easier.

How To Share Or Bookmark A Specific Part Of A YouTube Video

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YouTube has a huge collection of some very interesting and useful videos, and sometimes we may find some videos interesting and wish to share them with our near and dear ones. There are a lot of tools for saving, sharing videos from the most popular video-sharing website. But what if we liked only a certain part of the video and the rest is just doesn’t worth sharing it, we cannot waste our time just to download it, cut or trim it using a video editor, and then share it, it takes a lot of our time. But don’t worry, there is another simple process using which we can simply share and bookmark the specific part of the video.

Learn How To Share A Specific Part Of A YouTube Video

  •  You should enable a Chrome extension called YouTube Bookmarker and it enables you to just create multiple bookmarks in a single video
  • Just go to Chrome web store and search for it
  • Download it and enable it
  • Now when you open the video in the website you will see a bookmark option below the video, just click on it and you will see a window open to the right of the video, just set the timings there and give it a name and click on save and if you want to share a specific part of the video, then follow these steps
  • First, you need to copy the string of numbers and letters you find after ‘watch?v=’ in the URL of the video you would like to share Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-UMX5sVDKQ, just copy the highlighted part
  • Now you need to incorporate that thing in this new embed URL
    https://www.youtube.com/embed/_-UMX5sVDKQ?start=60&end=70
  • Every sharing URL consists this common part https://www.youtube.com/embed/
  • After that comes the copied part of the video you would like to share
  • Then comes a ‘?’ followed by ‘start=specific time&end-specific time’

After you are done with creating the URL just share it with the ones you want, you may find this process a little critical, but you can give it a try if you think the certain part of the video is worth sharing. You will get used to it with time.

How To Use YouTube’s Voice Search Feature While Casting To Smart TV

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You might be having a smart home or a Wi-Fi enabled device at your home. But the one thing that irritates everyone with a smart TV is definitely the onscreen keyboard which requires you to scroll and type using the remote control of your TV. Unless you have a voice, control enabled remote control, you won’t be able to do the voice search till a few weeks back. But now you can now search for videos with your voice on YouTube mobile even while you’re casting to a bigger screen. The Google-owned platform has announced the feature, which works on both iOS and Android devices. Here we present you the process of doing a voice search feature on your smart TV.

Steps For Controlling Your Smart TV Using Your Android’s Voice Search

  • As a first step, you need to open the YouTube app on your android device. Both your TV and Android device must be connected to the same Wi-Fi.
  • Now, tap on the Cast button at the top right corner of the android screen.
  • Now the YouTube app will be launched in your connected smart TV.
  • Then, you can just click on the microphone icon present at the bottom of the screen in the YouTube application in your android device. The red color microphone icon is the one you need to click on for voice searching YouTube Videos on your smart TV.
  • You can use the android device as a smart control device for your television. You can search using voice and the results will appear on your television screen. Navigate buttons will also appear on the device which you can use to navigate among the results and play them on the television.

So, that’s how you can get the most out of YouTube’s voice search feature to enhance your movie-watching experience.

A new breaking news feature added to YouTube

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YouTube can be said as the most extensive video sharing platform online without any doubt. The search engine giant Google has been constantly putting in efforts into this most popular video sharing website for giving its users a great user experience.

Billions of users every day spend a lot of their time every day watching videos on this video sharing platform. Videos vary from music videos to movies and tv series and much more depending on the tastes of the users.

And the recently introduced feature on YouTube is the breaking news feature.

With this feature, the video-sharing website has made a new breaking news section available on the home page of the Android application and website version as well. This section brings together a collection of videos that show the breaking news from all over the world. Another most important and interestingly noticeable change YouTube has made to its popular video sharing platform is it is showing suggestions of videos based on the geographical location of the user.

But the popular video sharing website hasn’t made any announcement regarding this newly introduced option which makes think a bit about the feature, whether it is a temporary one or a permanent one. However, this option is very much useful and there is an option to hide this section as well if the users don’t wish to have it on their homepage.

You can find this newly added option in the latest versions of the iOS and Android apps. So, make sure you have an updated application and enjoy the feature.