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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.  

Youtube Go for India launched

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Youtube Go

Google today announced Youtube Go, a unique application keeping the Indian users in mind. The application helps us to discover and share Youtube videos without consuming a large volume of data.

The application is specially designed to work smoothly where mobile data connectivity is poor. By using Youtube Go we can watch Youtube videos offline without data connection, and it provides the file size, and quality options which we can select while downloading the offline videos.

Youtube product manager VP Johanna announced the new application in Delhi today. The application is available to the general public soon. If you are interested in accessing it you can apply for it here.

Gradually Indian users are showing interest on video based content and Google introducing more powerful features to its video platform Youtube in recent past. Earlier the company tied up with few telecom operators like Airtel to offer faster downloads in night hours. And also Youtube started providing offline videos feature since a long time.

You can download any video offline from your Android Youtube application when you connected to any WiFi network, and the video will be available for offline viewing for a certain period. The latest Youtube Go application is now primarily available only to the Indian users. Soon it will be rolled out to other segments of the world.