Overview
- Tech outlets reported Thursday that YouTube Premium is trialing two features called Auto Speed and On-the-Go.
- Auto Speed dynamically changes playback speed during a video to save time without losing clarity, and users enable it from the playback speed menu.
- On-the-Go presents big, listener-friendly controls and hides comments, triggering after about 60 seconds of detected motion or by a manual toggle in Premium controls.
- The tests are limited to Premium subscribers through April 27, with Auto Speed on Android and iOS and conflicting reports on whether On-the-Go is Android-only.
- The features were found in the app’s experimental section rather than YouTube’s public experiments page, suggesting an early-stage, controlled trial.