YouTube introduced Tuesday that its latest replace disables all its video suggestions for customers who’ve their watch historical past turned off, fixing an arguably annoying drawback for many who might not wish to be bothered by a sea of recommended movies.
YouTube viewers are used to having a house feed filled with thumbnails because the video-sharing platform exhibits suggestions based mostly on watch historical past settings. Nevertheless, because of the newest replace, customers can flip off their watch historical past and expertise a less complicated homepage that feels much less cluttered and chaotic. As an alternative, there’ll simply be the search bar and the left-hand information menu with shortcuts to Subscriptions, Shorts and Library.
“We’re launching this new expertise to make it extra clear which YouTube options depend on watch historical past to offer video suggestions and make it extra streamlined for these of you preferring to go looking slightly than browse suggestions,” Google writes in at present’s submit.
The corporate added that customers will see these adjustments over the subsequent few months.
In different YouTube information, some iOS customers are at the moment complaining about buffering points whereas watching stay content material on YouTube TV and YouTube Primetime Channels. Earlier at present, YouTube confirmed the problem and mentioned it was engaged on an answer. Just a few hours later, there has but to be an replace on whether or not this was fastened.
These affected by the buffering reported that content material retains freezing on their iOS gadgets (each iPhone and iPad). It seems that this isn’t a problem when viewers watch the identical content material on Android gadgets, TVs and different gadgets.