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TL;DR
- YouTube Music is getting a quick-access “Pace dial” grid with songs you’ve not too long ago performed.
- Google formally introduced the function on October 24, 2023.
- YouTube Music additionally will get some refined modifications to the best way it shows menus.
Google giveth, and Google taketh away. Generally Google drops a brand new function on us out of the blue, and it simply immediately catches on and turns into part of our lives just about in a single day. However the firm additionally has a behavior of dragging issues out, and typically we’ll see a function pop out and in of existence time and again as the corporate tries to get issues excellent. Right this moment we’re trying on the return of 1 change that YouTube Music has been flirting with for properly over a yr now, because the app’s “Pace dial” options make a return.
Again in September of 2023, YouTube Music was testing a UI tweak that changed the “Pay attention once more” observe itemizing with this new “Pace dial.” After which this week final yr, Google formally introduced “Pace dial,” even when it wasn’t going to right away be obtainable for everybody:
Within the coming months, we’ll be launching a brand new function on the House tab that can assist you shortly discover and hearken to the songs and artists you’ve bought on repeat. Merely open the YouTube Music app and proper on the prime of the House tab, you’ll be greeted by your most listened to music content material, making it simple so that you can soar again into your present favorites.
Nicely, it could have taken its candy time in getting right here, however as 9to5Google noticed, and we’re capable of affirm on our personal gadgets, Google lastly appears to be flipping the swap and bringing “Pace dial” to YouTube Music customers all over the place:
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Functionally, it’s only a fast one-tap solution to soar proper again into listening to considered one of your latest favorites. For one thing so impossibly easy, it’s slightly loopy that it took Google a strong yr to roll it out, however not less than it’s right here now. In comparison with the outdated interface, this feels quite a bit tighter, squeezing 9 tracks or playlists into an space not a lot bigger than the place we bought six earlier than — and you may all the time swipe over for much more.
Individually from this long-overdue addition, 9to5Google noticed one other change that appears to be at the moment hitting YouTube Music: Overflow menus now open in a rounded-corner floating window.
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It’s only a refined change from the outdated overflow menus that stuffed the width of the display, and arrives alongside aspect different minor tweaks like dropping the rainbow highlighting round forged targets. Test the YouTube Music app in your cellphone or pill to see if you happen to’ve gotten all these modifications, too.