YouTube On Android And IOS Will Get A Transparent Lower Bar

YouTube updated the appearance of the application (photo: dock. unsplash)

JAKARTA In October, YouTube launched a number of new features. The platform revealed that it will change the bottom bar of the app and now the update is rolling out.

YouTube app users on Android and iOS-based devices will get a see-through lower bar so that it looks like a blurry glass effect. Although the update is simple, YouTube believes that the user experience will increase.

Whenever a user scrolls the screen and passes through various videos that appear on their Home, the bottom display will adjust the appearance in the background. This change is almost similar to the transparency of the top bar, it's just that it looks a lot more blurry.

This opaque glass effect looks very subtle and not very dominating. Some users may not be aware of this change if they don't pay good attention to the lower bar, especially for users with bright themes.

To see the changes more clearly, users can switch to dark themes. Meanwhile, according to 9to5google observations, this opaque glass effect also looks clearer for YouTube app users on iOS because the gesture area is higher.

This see-through bottom bar is launched through the server side in version 19.47 for Android and 19.49 for iOS. Although released from the server side, VOI has not seen this update on any number of Android-based devices.

YouTube's web view will also get this change, but on the top bar. It's not yet known when YouTube will add a blurry effect to the desktop version of YouTube's web view.