{"id":205750,"date":"2022-10-25T11:37:51","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T09:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=205750"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:22:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:22:28","slug":"youtube-introducing-new-zoom-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/youtube-introducing-new-zoom-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube is introducing a new zoom into videos feature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">YouTube is now over 17 years old and there is no denying the place it holds in the modern media landscape. It has evolved into a beast of an app offering everything from music videos and silly short videos to fully featured documentaries, TV shows, and even movies. Recently, <strong>Google has been updating the YouTube app<\/strong> giving it a facelift and bringing in some feature tweaks and upgrades. Today, we can report on <strong>a long-awaited YouTube feature finally coming to the app, zooming in and out of content<\/strong>. Here\u2019s what you need to know.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" alt=\"YouTube\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_app-logo-xl,f_auto\/p\/10d25878-96d2-11e6-8469-00163ed833e7\/931989441\/youtube-logo\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">YouTube<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/youtube.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download Now<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--0\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"0\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\"><\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\"><\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/youtube.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google has <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/youtube\/answer\/12820428\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a> the introduction of <strong>a new pinch-to-zoom feature <\/strong>for YouTube as well as publishing a how-to guide to show users what they need to do to take advantage of the feature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new pinch-to-zoom YouTube feature allows users who are watching YouTube videos in full-screen mode to tap and pitch the content to zoom in and out for a better and more detailed view. Also, <strong>the feature will stay zoomed in, meaning that it will not pop back out to the regular resolution automatically<\/strong>, which will allow users to keep watching videos they have zoomed into without having to hold their fingers on the screen. The full instructions for the new feature, as laid out by Google are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Pinch to zoom in on content:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>In full screen mode, touch the video with two fingers.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Move your fingers away from one another, while touching the video screen.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Once you let go, the video will play at the new zoom level.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Pinch to zoom out of content:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>After zooming in, touch the video with two fingers, and move your fingers towards one another to zoom out.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Once you let go, the video will play at the new zoom level.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The simple process is easy enough to get your head around, but Google has also created a quick video guide to help you learn the basics quickly and easily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pinch to zoom in and out of a video ft. 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Recently, Google has been updating the YouTube &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/youtube-introducing-new-zoom-feature\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;YouTube is introducing a new zoom into videos feature&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9073,"featured_media":205754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2355],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-205750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionyoutube"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322996,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205750\/revisions\/322996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205750"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=205750"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=205750"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=205750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}