Nintendo-Power

Daily Gaming news, videos, reviews, tips & guides. Let's share our love of BigN games!

Tests the functionality that guarantees that YouTube on Android TV will not be undesirable

Tests the functionality that guarantees that YouTube on Android TV will not be undesirable

YouTube on Android TV (and Google TV) is testing the sound-enabled automatic video playback feature on the app’s home screen.

3D representation of the YouTube logo

3D Representation of the YouTube Logo // Source: Shubham Thake on Unsplash

Just like a mobile app, Web light On Android TV (and Google TV) Constantly tries various experiments to improve the user experience. Unfortunately, the last test Marked 9to5Google Can be very unpleasant.

In fact, from a few users, the site explains that it plays YouTube videos with auto-enabled sound on the homepage. This happens when the cursor is allowed to stay on the thumbnail for a few seconds.

You can disable this option

Two things to know. The first is very annoying. Those affected by this Google test will see this preview option, which is enabled by default. Then, unlike the uniform autoplay functionality on mobile and the Internet, YouTube’s preview on Android TV releases only a portion of the video. You can not see it completely from the home screen.

If you are bothered by this experiment and it irritates you, you should disable the option in the special section “Preview with sound” from the settings of YouTube, which can become “preview with sound” in the French language interface.

Source: 9to5Google

Source: 9to5Google

As mentioned 9to5GoogleIt is unknown at this time what he will do after leaving the post. However, the media was able to reflect the experience on several devices, including one Nvidia Shield TV And one Chromecast with Google TV.

So the deployment of the process is linked to users’ accounts, not their devices.


To follow us, we invite you Download our Android and iOS app. You can read our articles, files and watch our latest YouTube videos.