YouTube has a new ‘pinch-to-zoom’ feature. It now allows you to zoom in on YouTube videos. iPhoned explains how it works and how to activate the function.
Zoom in a YouTube video: this is how it works
YouTube has got a new experimental feature. With this you can now zoom in on a video. You do need a Premium account to use the feature.
To use the zoom in a YouTube video, you must first turn on the function. When you use the app on your iPhone and are logged in with your account, the app already tells you that a new function is available. Did you miss this notification or do you not see it? Then follow the steps below.
- Launch the YouTube app on your iPhone and tap your profile picture at the top right;
- Tap ‘Settings > Try New Features’;
- Scroll down slightly to ‘Pinch to zoom’;
- Tap the blue ‘try it out’ button.
The function is now enabled. To use the feature, start a video and turn your iPhone into landscape (width) mode to view the video in full screen. Then, just like with a photo, you can zoom in and out by ‘pinching’ or ‘spreading’ with two fingers. By the way, zooming doesn’t work with YouTube Shorts, the short TikTok-like videos.
YouTube Premium (with a big discount)
Don’t have YouTube Premium yet? Then we immediately have a good tip for you, because we show you how you can take out a YouTube Premium subscription very cheaply (with an 86% discount). YouTube Premium normally costs 11.99 euros per month, but then you pay less than two euros.
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