- Android users have noticed a test that automatically uses the first video of your flow when you open the YouTube application
- Users have expressed their negative feelings online, with sharing and bypassing advice to avoid this
- This is another recent experimental functionalities of YouTube, and follows the list of “recommended videos” of the platform in the queue of reading the application
Usually, when YouTube implements new experimental characteristics, you can locate them at a distance mile. However, the video platform was quite discreet and devious with its latest test, and some users have noticed that it automatically read the first video of their flow when they open the Android version of the application.
During the last month, several Android users reported their experiences with this strange automatic reading function, and although most thought it was a bug at the start, it turns out that it is intentional on the part of YouTube. To say that people are frustrated is an understatement, and they did not take away from expressing their feelings in countless sons of Reddit.
The video plays when I open the R / Youtube application
“I opened my YouTube application on my Samsung phone today, and it immediately started reading a video. I checked that automatic reading was deactivated and restarted the application, and that has not resolved,” said a user on Reddit, who attracted a list of responses from other Android users with the same problem.
There is an existing YouTube function that you can allow the videos to be read automatically one after the other, and this can easily be deactivated in your settings, but one of the most boring parts of the test of reading the Mystery Autopsy of YouTube is that it is not as easy to avoid. Fortunately, users who encountered this problem found a way to stop this by uninstalling the last update of the application, or by erasing their data and their cache.
YouTube is in a time of experimentation
It’s an interesting moment for YouTube, which seems to be doing a new test every week. Automatic reading videos are only one of the experiences that could cause new features for the application, for better or for worse.
Other recent tests indicate the possible arrival of new features for premium YouTube subscribers, including a function that allows you to control the quality of the audio in videos, as well as a new economical advantage in time which shows that you have recommended the content directly in your reading queue. YouTube has also tested a corrective for subscribers notifications, and although this could be a blessing for users, this could be a great risk for creators.
