YouTube made a few changes to its Desktop and Mobile Apps, and introduces its New Logo

Watching videos made easier with this slew of updates

Today, YouTube has announced a series of updates to its video platform, signifying another evolution since it was launched 12 years ago. For this update, YouTube added a few new features to its mobile app, and implemented a Material Design UI for its desktop app.

Aside from the simplified interface of the mobile app, YouTube added gestures to it, letting users do a double tap to the left and right side of the screen to rewind and fast forward a video respectively. Also, a few desktop features have made it to mobile, which include speeding up and slowing down the playback of a video, suggested videos while watching videos on full screen, and automatic adjustment for full screen videos to adapt to any video format.

The desktop app now has a dark theme option to go along with its Material Design UI, giving users a more cinematic feel in watching videos.

To wrap up all these updates, YouTube has updated its logo, this time with their famous play logo sitting beside the wordmark.

Check out the video summarizing all the changes YouTube has made: