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YouTube has introduced a new share feature

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Many of us are spending a lot of their free time watching videos on YouTube, which has been the most popular video sharing website and the website keeps on introducing new features. It has a huge collection of videos. We might find some videos which we would want to share with our dear and near ones. If you don’t want to share that video publicly but would like to share with some people, then we just have to share the link of the YouTube video which will be a troublesome procedure for both the sender and the receiver. The newly introduced feature is a perfect solution for this problem, let us now learn a bit about the feature and also see how to use it.

YouTube has introduced a new feature that allows the users to share the videos and chat with their friends without having to leave the application. When you share the link of the video, a thumbnail will be shown up as a preview of the video and this feature even allows the users to play the video right inside the chat itself.

The company is rolling out this feature in stages and just update it as soon as you receive the update from the company. After updating, you will find a new shared tab in the application. That tab will host the shared videos and chats.

For sharing videos to YouTube share, you can follow the steps below

  • Once you updated the app and got the shared tap in the application, you can find the people in your Gmail contacts who have their accounts linked to Just tap add contact if you wish to add those contacts
  • You can also add some more contacts by sharing invitation links to them via various social networking apps
  • Or you can also send invitation links to the people in your phone contacts using the option find in the phone book
  • And after the new update of the app, you will start seeing share on YouTube option

You can just tap on that option and then select the contact

Some super cool tricks for YouTube Android app

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YouTube, obviously the most popular video sharing application. It has a huge number of users from the Android community and here are some cool tricks to make the most use of the Android app.

Easy forward and backward:

Every video has some boring part, and skipping that video for a few seconds isn’t that difficult like you think. Double tap the right side of the screen to forward the video for ten seconds, and double tap on the left side of the screen to backward it for 10 seconds. You can even change the skipping time in the settings. Go to YouTube settings> General > Double tap to seek, now just select the number.

Watch videos in silent mode with subtitles:

Sometimes the surroundings won’t cooperate us to watch videos with the volume up, then for such times here is a cool trick. The YouTube application allows the users to watch videos on silent mode with subtitles. The auto-captions are available for the users in ten different languages. You can turn the captions on by clicking on the three dot icon on the top right of the video screen, then select captions and then finally select the language you want.

Auto-play videos:

Stay hands-free by setting the videos to auto-play and just sit back and relax watching the continuously playing videos. You can see suggestions for every video you watch on the application if you are interested in watching them, then just turn on the auto-play button which you can find below the video.

Pause your watch history:

Everyone needs to have some privacy at every point of their life and if you are also among those who wishes have a private search history and don’t want to save what you search on the app, then this setting is for you. Just go to Settings> History & Privacy, then turn on the Pause search history and pause watch history options.

Thus the Android app of the video sharing application has some fantastically useful features.

Listen to only audio from the YouTube videos

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YouTube videos may cost you a lot of MBs, and many people actually don’t have unlimited internets and they might want to save their internet for various other things. If you are also among those people who don’t want to waste your internet or if you only like to listen to the audio from the videos on YouTube, then you can actually do that using a simple process.

Requirements:

  • PC/Laptop
  • Chrome Browser

It is a pretty simple thing, all you need to do is just install the Audio Only YouTube extension from the chrome web store in your laptop’s chrome browser. Once you installed that extension on your laptop, your process of setting up is done. From then the videos from the website will start playing the audio whenever you open a link or play them.

Thus this extension helps you to disable the display and just play them on mp3 format which lets you save a lot of your internet. The chrome extension looks like in the image below

 

How to disable annoying pop ups in YouTube videos

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We may often see pop-ups while watching videos on YouTube which will be quite annoying at times. There will be annoying pop-ups disturbing us from watching videos which say subscribe to channels or the links to various videos.

It will be very annoying as some YouTube creators extra do the annotations which will be like spots on the videos and we cannot close them by ourselves simply. But don’t worry my dear YouTubers there is still a simple and pretty easy way where we can disable annotations and this process is just a click away for the users and very easy to do as well.

Procedure:

First of all the user needs to be logged into his/her account by using their login credentials. Then the user needs to go to the YouTube settings which can be accessed by clicking on the profile image on the top right screen of the page and then a gear icon can be seen which leads the user to the settings page.

After that user will be directed to a page where he needs to click on the playback option from the various options listed on the left side of the screen.      

Now in this screen just uncheck the Show annotations and in video notifications option and click on save button in the bottom screen.

Thus the users can get rid of the annoying pop-ups using the disable notifications option in the YouTube.

Search YouTube like a master

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YouTube, the most popular video sharing platform needs no introduction. Approximately 35 hours of video content is uploaded in it every single minute. Even the website has become the second most popular search engine in the internet.

If you want to search YouTube like a pro then you must know these simple tips of video search on the website.

Searching of videos on the website is pretty easy, but some simple tricks while you search can help you to search like a master

  • For finding a specific YouTube channel, you just need to add the word channel to your search word separated by comma.
  • You can limit your video search to recently uploaded videos by simply using keywords like this week, this month, today.
  • If you want to see only the official content and no fan made videos or anything, all you need to do is just add the word partner to your query.

Ex: strong, partner

  • Adding the word HD to your query will bring you only the high definition videos
  • 3D clips can also be found the same way by just adding the word 3D to your query.
  • Find lengthy videos in the popluar video sharing website by just adding the keyword long to your query search.
  • The best part is that you can even mix and match the various keywords and use multiple keywords in one single search which will take you to your exact search result that you might need.

These simple tricks and keywords may thus help you to search YouTube like a pro and use YouTube.