YouTube Premium subscribers get five new features

Starting today, YouTube Premium subscribers can try out new features. Besides removing ads, the Premium plan also offers some exclusive features to make it more attractive and improve your experience.

The YouTube team has confirmed up to five new features for the Premium tier, three of which are experimental. This means that two are labeled ‘stable’, while the other three are optional and may even cause problems when testing them.

These are the new stable features of YouTube Premium

Starting with the new stable functions for YouTube Premium, there’s a new “Jump Forward” button that appears when you double-tap a video to skip forward seconds. YouTube uses AI and community data to determine the best parts of the video. The new button let you to jump directly to those parts. This feature is available now on Android, while iOS will receive it in the coming weeks.

Then there’s another long-awaited feature: picture-in-picture support for Shorts. Basically, you can now minimize Shorts into a floating window while using other apps. This one has been available in mainstream videos for a long time. So it’s surprising that it took us so long to get to Shorts. Either way, Shorts no longer stops playing when you switch to another app.

There are also experimental features

Now it’s time for the experimental features, starting with the implementation of smart downloads for Shorts. The feature works the same as normal videos, downloading Shorts in the background that you might find interesting depending on your tastes. This allows you to watch them offline when you don’t have an internet connection.

There is also ‘Conversational AI’, an AI-powered chatbot. This chatbot is far from as powerful as Gemini, but it doesn’t pretend to be either. It aims to provide you with information related to the videos. It also improves the search experience within the platform while using natural language. The best part is that you can use it at any time, without stopping the video playback.

Finally, there is a new design of the display page, which is now optional. The company had previously forcibly implemented the new design for some of its users. However, due to the backlash, you can now decide whether to participate in the test.