Monday, November 20, 2017

"Pinced", YouTube Videos Are Bigger

YouTube has added a feature to enlarge an image or video with the pinch-to-zoom feature. With a pinching motion (swipe your thumb and forefinger) outwards, YouTube viewers on your smartphone can zoom in.

The pinch movements are similar to movements such as when to enlarge an image in a gallery or photo that appears in an Instagram feed.

Unfortunately, this new feature can be used in smartphones with screens that have aspect ratio larger than 16: 9.

As is known, the latest smartphone-series smartphone is now carrying a wider aspect ratio of the screen, such as the iPhone X and Galaxy S8 with 18.5: 9 screen ratio.

Pinch feature to zoom this view comes in update or update YouTube version 12.44 which was released on 15 November.

Please note, when zooming or enlarging the video being watched, then the sides of the video will be cut off.

Also read: Here's How to Speed ​​Up and Slow YouTube Videos on Mobile

Initially, this update is only present in Google Pixel 2 XL. So far according to 9to5Google report summarized KompasTekno, Sunday (19/11/2017), this feature has been used in Samsung Galaxy S8 Active, Huawei Mate 10 Pro, and LG V30.

Reportedly, this feature will be present in other series smartphones in various sizes aspect ratio. Older versions of YouTube on Android do not yet have this feature, so if you want to try out how this feature works, users should update to YouTube version 12.44 on PlayStore.

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