YouTube Music and main YouTube app experience are knit together closely. You can play your YouTube based playlists on Music app and whatever you like on an app will affect your recommendations. YouTube Music fulfills most of the listening requirements and it also comes with a feature to watch the music videos right from it without logging onto full app. Normally we watch the music videos on full YT app but if you want to switch quickly over YouTube Music when watching music video. Google has added more shortcuts for you to do exactly the the same.
When you are watching the music video on YouTube if the song is available in YouTube Music audio only-format, you will get a prompt to instantly jump to the app. The shortcut is located inside the player’s view to the left of autoplay toggle and will be noticeable since its full YouTube Music icon. When you will tap it it will begin playing the song which you are listening to inside YouTube Music app. There is a similar toggle in the video’s Settings overflow screen located right below ‘Watch in VR’ option.

Navigation of the apps and notifications on your Android phone has become pretty much smarter and easier. Smart replies has made instant responses easy to send and for the ones who use Google Messages, it is a quick tap to keep anyone off your back while you are busy. But Google is aware that can be done with predictive behavioral suggestions and it looks like some developers need to put it into action.
The current user-facing text explains the shortcuts are triggered when the apps reads the phone numbers, dates and other data that may require to be remembered for later. Starred messages could receive priority in Messages’s home view while times or dates could prompt users to jot down calendar appointment or the reminder. Google Messages has been learning in its attempts to provide automatic context to threads of users, sorting them into different categories like for personal communications, donations and one-time passwords.

YouTube Music has got only an app for Wear OS since the last fall, launching years after the service replaced Play Music which is Google’s Spotify competitor. With the latest update, users can access their favorite albums as well as songs. The latest version of YouTube Music has got new tile highlighting anything that has been recently played from your library. As with all of the other Wear OS tiles you can access it by swiping right from your selected watch face once it is added to your collection.
By tapping on the highlighted album or a song immediately starts playback and when you select ‘Browse’ open the app directly. If you are listening to something you will miss out on ‘Browse’ button and the tile will serve as shortcut to your ‘New Playing’ page. If you are annoyed of opening the app on your wrist it is a very useful shortcut for resuming all of your favorite tunes. It is coming up as part of YouTube Music v5.06.40 on WearOS.

TikTok has to be the biggest social media phenomenon of 2020s. It was originally known as Musical.ly and it has brought the resurgence of the short video format after the rise and fall of Vine in the previous decade. TikTok has also spawned many clones and one of them is YouTube Shorts, a section of YouTube that focuses on videos which are less than minute in length. As it is getting popular so Google has decided to add some more feature similar to TikTok. The latest one of them is green screen.
As announced by YouTube, the new Green Screen feature is the newest way of remixing a video on YouTube Shorts. You can use it on any of the existing YouTube video or short and a photo or video in your gallery and record yourself with whatever color that is being keyed out. You can use or mute audio from original source. The end product will be a Short video so it has to be 60 seconds or less.
In order to use this feature all you have to do is to head over to Create > Green Screen under any video which you are watching, or you can look for the option in 3-dot menu in your Short view. It is on iOS at the moment and Android users will get it in coming months. At the moment most of the Shorts is nothing but TikTok reuploads so by adding the creator features to the app could boost growth of an exclusive community of creators.

Captions are considered as one of the most handy features as we are not always in a position where we can hear the audio of any video and captions can save your day in that regard. With captions you can watch a video even your phone is muted. The company has confirmed that YouTube is now doubling down on captions adding the transcripts and auto-translations for videos you watch on your phone.
When it comes to transcripts, they will be auto-generated by using Google speech recognition models like automatic captions with added difference that allow you to read them down in the list from similar to auto-transcripts in Google Recorder app. Like auto-captions dont expect these to work flawlessly especially when it launches. It works brilliantly in Google Recorder but videos can be more of mixed bag and you may get either perfect transcripts or really low quality depending on the video.
Now you can have auto-translated captions and it works exactly the way you are thinking. If a video has got captions you can go into settings and tap on Auto-translate and select your preferred language and then you will have subtitles adapted to your language. This feature is available for long time on web version but its arrival on mobile version is long overdue. Auto-translated captions will be available in 16 languages initially with Ukrainian language joining the list next month.

YouTube Music’s playlists are considered as one of its biggest draws and it appears that Google is testing a UI redesign for them in its mobile app. A user from France has shared on Reddit that the YouTube playlist interface on his Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 and it has been changed significantly. And it seems to be a test for further update.
In the new user interface the top of the playlist shows name of the person who is its creator and when the playlist was last updated. The cover art has been centralized and below that is the name of playlist in large font. Up next is the list of other buttons like download, add to library, share, play and overflow appearing in straight line. The shuffle feature seems to be missing from the list. The changes have appeared in the playlist section and not for the albums. In the earlier testing phase it is still unclear if the changes will be made only to the playlists or of it will extend to other sections of YouTube Music. With the changes the user interface has got a clean look with control options in single line thus making it simple to navigate. The changes will also apply to self-made of community generated playlists as well as YouTube Music’s creations.

If you have been part of any organization that operates on WhatsApp you can probably testify that 256 participant limit is a bit annoying one about this platform. It forces the management with loads of members to spread the resources thin, thus creating as well as managing multiple groups. Now it will be changed as Meta owned platform gets an update that will double participant limit on each of your group. WhatsApp has recently announced a series of new features arriving on the service. including expanding the group chat sizes. Now users will be able to add up to 512 people to a group. The feature is not widely available at the moment but it is slowly trickling to the users, It is still very far from 200,000 participants limit available on Telegram users through subgroups but still it is a welcoming step taken by them.
WhatsApp is also working on Communities which is another way of managing the group chats efficiently. A community will appear as new tab within the app. It will have many groups, letting the admins to send announcements as well as updates to all the participants in a single go. WhatsApp communities has been in the pipeline since last year but official announcement came last month. Aside from these in-progress features, WhatsApp has rolled out two new additions i.e. reactions and an increased file sharing size limit. Now you can send up to 2GB of files at once on WhatsApp which is a massive jump from the previous limit of 100MB. Reactions allow the users to respond directly to any message with six different emojis without crowding the chat with individual replies.