YouTube rolling out progress bar that is not all the time crimson on Android

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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 crimson on a regular basis.

Replace 12/30: Extra of our Android gadgets and accounts, together with Incognito, are seeing this white progress bar. This stays particular to the darkish theme, and appears to be an try to supply a much less distracting YouTube UI.

Unique 12/20: On one in every of our Android gadgets, YouTube’s progress bar — while you’re passively watching a video with darkish theme enabled — is white/grey as an alternative of the standard crimson. In these circumstances, YouTube additionally doesn’t word 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, crimson 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, crimson is certainly not going away.

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

This variation isn’t broadly rolled out, and solely stay on that one cellphone even throughout a number of system sign-ins.