YouTube on Android testing video progress bar that is not all the time purple

Again in October, YouTube rolled out a giant redesign throughout its cell apps and the net. YouTube for Android is now testing a extra refined video progress bar that isn’t purple on a regular basis. 

On one in every of our Android gadgets, YouTube’s progress bar — whenever you’re passively watching a video with darkish theme enabled — is white/grey as an alternative of the same old purple. In these circumstances, YouTube additionally doesn’t be aware how a lot of a video has loaded.

Interacting with the scrubber or tapping to convey up controls adjustments it again to the earlier conduct, full with loading standing. This helps the UI fade away, which is one thing that YouTube has been working towards as seen with Ambient mode. 

Outdoors of the video participant, purple remains to be utilized in the principle feed and in every single place else, so the change is clearly focused on the watching expertise. As YouTube’s accent coloration, purple is certainly not going away.

In the meantime, the same old purple progress bar stays when utilizing a lightweight theme on the identical system. It’s not clear if that’s the supposed conduct — with purple on white being much less distracting — or if that’s simply a part of the A/B check. 

This alteration isn’t extensively rolled out, and solely reside on that one cellphone even throughout a number of system sign-ins.

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