YouTube is finally making it easier to control the video service from your lock screen and your Apple Watch. This is how this new YouTube control works.
This is how the new YouTube control works
Anyone who regularly streams a YouTube video from their iPhone to a TV knows how annoying it can be to pause the video or change the volume. Version 12.03 of the YouTube app puts an end to this. From now on, you can simply control a YouTube video from your lock screen. Just like you do while listening to music or a podcast.
This is useful because previously you had to unlock the iPhone first and open the YouTube app to pause or skip a video. The new control buttons automatically appear when you send a YouTube video to a Chromecast, Apple TV, or other form of Smart TV.
YouTube from your Apple Watch
Now that YouTube supports the lock screen, you can also control the video service from an Apple Watch. You do this by opening the ‘Current’ screen. So you can pause a video or skip to the next or previous in the playlist.
The YouTube app update is now available from the App Store. The description of the update does not describe the new feature, but it is there if you restart the app after installing it.