The consumption of YouTube content has become, for many people, a one of their main leisure habits. This is logical, of course, since the platform has been able to attract all kinds of creators to stock up on an extensive, varied and recommendable offer of content with which we can learn from the thousand secrets of oriental cuisine to discover what it is like to spend a night. in America’s creepiest motel, check out what happens if we turn milk into a carbonated drink, or step into the shoes of students facing mock driver’s license practical exams. The variety is endless.
One of the advantages of YouTube is that we can access its contents from practically any platform, something that the users gain, of course, but also the platform, since in this way it extends its reach exponentially. Not surprisingly, smartphones have been, for some time now, the main way of accessing content for many users, especially the youngest, an audience that is tremendously coveted by many of these services.
Smartphones, like tablets, allow us to enjoy content at any time and place, with the only requirement of having an Internet connection, which is very practical. But against him They also raise some usability and user experience issues.. Part of them, such as the size of the screen on smartphones, is difficult to solve, but there are others that, with the proper dedication, can be solved.
Such is the case, as we can read in PhoneArena, of accidental keystrokes. Has it ever happened to you that you press the screen by mistake and stop playback? This problem (minor, yes, but very common) occurs even more frequently if, for whatever reason, we hold our smartphone in our hand during playback. The good news is that YouTube is testing a lock screen mode to avoid this problem. In other words, the screen continues to show the content played, but the response to the user’s keystrokes on it is deactivated.
At the moment this function is being tested among some YouTube Premium users, the method of payment for the service, which leads us to think that, at least during its debut, the screen lock to prevent accidental keystrokes will be exclusive to paid accounts, something that also makes sense, since it is known that Google intends to explore ways to grow the number of Premium subscribers. Something that, in all probability, you have already deduced if you regularly access YouTube, and therefore you have noticed the large amount of advertising, and the constant promotions of the Premium mode.
