In recent weeks, YouTube has been slowly rolling out a new video page that tweaks several elements and, most notably, unifies the design across Android, iOS, and the web.
As 9to5Google reports, the highlight of this redesign is the use of pill-shaped buttons for key elements. For example, instead of being two distinct buttons, thumbs up/down and the like count are housed in one container. Share, Create (Shorts), Download, and other things you frequently interact with get the same treatment.
Meanwhile, that carousel (on mobile) is now underneath channel details with that information coming after video title, view count, publish date, and hashtags.
This new design might also coincide with “Ambient Mode” that allows the bottom of a video to bleed into the description section and system status bar for a more immersive experience. Fortunately, this can be optionally enabled/disabled from the overflow menu.
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