YouTube is testing two new features for users. Here's what you need to know about them

YouTube's new features: Video-sharing website Youtube every now and then comes up with innovations to beat the growing competition in the market. However, not all features that it launches reach users for testing. Some features don't reach users at all; some are tested by beta users, while some are exclusively tested by YouTube Premium Subscribers.

The Google-owned company takes feedback from these Premium subscribers to go ahead or make changes in its innovation.

At present, YouTube Premium subscribers are also testing two such features.

What are YouTube's new features?

YouTube's two features under testing are avoiding accidental taps with lock screen and long pressing to watch a video at 2X speed.

In this write-up, we will divulge more details about the new features under tersting.

Avoid accidental taps with lock screen

One of the problems that premium YouTube subscribers face is that while they watch a video on a lock screen, their accidental touches pause, skip, or disrupt the video.

But the new experimental feature will allow premium users to disable touch input while watching the video. 

As per this feature, if testers are watching the video in full-screen mode, they can tap on the gear icon located at the top-left corner of the screen and select lock screen.

The company said that the experimental feature in available on Android and IOS handsets for testing till August 5. 

Long Press to watch 2X

The feature to boost theh speed of a video is already available on YouTube, but users have to go through a long process to access it.

They first tap the video they are playing to access the three dot menu, then tap the playback speed option and choose different speed options to decrease or increase the speed of the video.       

The new feature will make the process much smoother and faster.

Under the new feature, a user can long-press anywhere on the video player to automatically boost the speed of playback by 2X. The feature is also under testing till August 13.