YouTube on Android and iOS now shows ambient colors around fullscreen videos [Gallery]
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YouTube is currently rolling out Ambient Mode to fullscreen videos on its Android and iOS apps, but you can turn it off.
  • steltek@lemm.eeEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    I thought this was a bug in Youtube. It’s intrusive and annoying.

    Do other video apps do this? Why?

  • cttttt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    It’s weird how I didn’t really care about the pinhole camera or my Pixel 5 weird dimensions until Ambient Mode started highlighting it. When ambient mode shipped (silently), I seriously thought I forgot that the aspect ratio wasn’t 16:9 and the pinhole was so visible all these years. Turns out the bars hid these distractions.

    The feature looks great on Desktop, but on mobile, I kinda prefer the bars actually hiding the edges of the screen, esp in fullscreen mode in a darker room.

    It’s cool that you can just turn it off, and hopefully, in the future, they let you toggle the feature in fullscreen and portrait mode separately.