YouTube update introduces new autoplay function, but it might be short-lived

Video streaming platform YouTube released a new version (14.31.50) last week for its Android users with new features aimed at YouTube Gaming. However, there’s one major UI update in the main app that changes the way you choose the next song in queue.

The latest stable build of the app comes with a revamped ‘Up Next’ UI. For the last four years, the autoplay (or ‘Up Next’) screen, that appears at the end of a video, showed a circular indicator that allowed users to play the next video in the queue. Previously, the app gave users eight seconds in a circular indicator to decide on a YouTube recommendation or a song of their own choice by cancelling the countdown. The next video’s title displayed on the top left corner with the thumbnail of it in the background.