YouTubeโ€™s redesigned UI shown on TV, laptop, and phone | Image: YouTube

YouTube announced some new design changes that are rolling out now, including pinch-to-zoom for everyone and precise seeking with a more usable preview to help you find the section of the video youโ€™re looking for.

YouTubeโ€™s new pinch-to-zoom feature lets you zoom in on videos the same way you do on photos. If this sounds familiar, itโ€™s because YouTube started testing the feature with YouTube Premium subscribers in August. Itโ€™s (finally) getting precise seeking as well, which should help you rewind (or fast-forward) videos to an exact location. When scrolling through a video, YouTube will open up a frame-by-frame view, making it a lot easier to find and watch a certain section.

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This will make it a lot easier to replay certain parts of a video.

After weeks of testing, YouTubeโ€™s also introducing a new ambient mode that uses โ€œdynamic color sampling,โ€ so the appโ€™s background color adapts to the colors in the video youโ€™re watching. This featureโ€™s rolling out on the web and mobile for everyone using a dark theme. Itโ€™s extending the same look to videos in playlists as well, so you wonโ€™t be so distracted by the background bordering the video youโ€™re watching.

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The videoโ€™s supposed to blend in to the background.

And if you prefer to use dark mode on YouTube, the company announced itโ€™s making its dark mode even darker โ€œso the colors truly pop on your screen,โ€ whether youโ€™re watching videos on your phone, computer, or smart TV. The platformโ€™s giving its โ€œsubscribeโ€ button a makeover, too, and is also changing the links in video descriptions to buttons. Meanwhile, the like, share, and download buttons are โ€œformatted to minimize distractions,โ€ and video thumbnails will now appear with rounded corners. This brings YouTubeโ€™s look in line with Googleโ€™s Material You design changes, which it has already brought to a number of its apps, including Gmail, Docs, and Calendar.

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