YouTube is testing its Queue system for its iPhone and Android apps

YouTube is beginning to check out its queueing system on iOS and Android. The characteristic has been accessible on the net for years now, and reveals within the YouTube apps beneath sure circumstances — customers who management their Chromecast with their telephones might recognize it, as will those that use the YouTube Music apps — however now YouTube Premium customers who opt-in to the check will be capable to add movies to a stack that acts like an impermanent playlist.

After you activate the characteristic (which we’ll cowl the way to do in only a second), you’ll have entry to a brand new “Play final in queue” button within the three vertical dot menu that seems on video thumbnails. Tapping it would add the video to the underside of your queue — or will create a brand new queue when you’re presently not watching a video. As soon as the video you’re watching ends, the app will beginning taking part in the subsequent video within the queue, and preserve going till you run out. You can too rearrange movies within the queue, or take away them. For those who shut the participant, both by absolutely quitting the app or tapping the “x” button within the backside bar, your queue shall be deleted (although the app might warn you earlier than that occurs).

Once I opened the app on December twenty fourth, I used to be greeted with a display telling me that the characteristic was now accessible to check, and a button to show it on. (YouTube began rolling out the characteristic earlier this month according to Android Police and 9to5Google, however the pop-up didn’t present up for me till at the moment.) For those who didn’t get that display and also you’re a Premium subscriber, you may manually allow it by tapping in your profile image within the prime proper nook, going to Settings > Attempt new options, then scrolling to “Queue” and tapping the “Attempt it out” button.

Based on that settings display, the check shall be accessible till January twenty eighth.

The check isn’t essentially an indication that non-paying customers will be capable to queue up movies anytime quickly — YouTube’s picture-in-picture check for iOS ended months earlier than the characteristic began rolling out. I additionally observed that the characteristic isn’t precisely polished proper now — the app failed so as to add a video to the queue at one level, seemingly as a result of I attempted so as to add one other one too quickly afterwards. Nonetheless, I’m excited to have this characteristic on my cellphone; it’s one thing I take advantage of nearly day-after-day on the desktop, and the truth that it’s made it to the YouTube Premium testbed makes me hope I’ll be capable to depend on it within the app too sometime.

Replace December twenty fourth 5:56PM ET: Added context that the YouTube Music app already has a queueing system.