{"id":93047,"date":"2017-08-28T10:55:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T10:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=93047"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:48:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:48:29","slug":"new-youtube-feature-takes-on-whatsapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/new-youtube-feature-takes-on-whatsapp\/","title":{"rendered":"New YouTube feature takes on WhatsApp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">YouTube for <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebay.com\/sch\/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR12.TRC2.A0.H0.Xds.TRS0&amp;_nkw=smartphone\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">smartphone<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> has recently been adding improvements and updates. After announcing that soon they&#8217;ll include <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.softonic.com\/articulos\/youtube-cambio-velocidad-app-android-soc\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">playback speed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, now they\u2019ve surprised us with a new, more intriguing option: an<\/span><b> internal chat system.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This chat, available for YouTube iOS and Android apps, will be enabled when we share a video with one or more of our friends. So, if we see a video that we like and decide to share it with some of our contacts, <\/span><b>the app will generate a specific chat window for that video<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, where we can privately comment on whatever we want. It looks like this:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-93279\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2017\/08\/screen-shot-2017-08-07-at-1-28-59-pm.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-08-07-at-1-28-59-pm\" width=\"738\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2017\/08\/screen-shot-2017-08-07-at-1-28-59-pm.png 738w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2017\/08\/screen-shot-2017-08-07-at-1-28-59-pm-300x259.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 738px) 100vw, 738px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Once the chat is started, using it is like any other app (WhatsApp, Messenger\u2026) but without as many additional features as competitor apps. We\u2019ll have to settle for <\/span><b>clicking \u201cLike\u201d on our friends\u2019 comments and sharing other YouTube videos.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/feBF_IY-HI8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With that in mind, YT\u2019s idea with this chat system isn\u2019t to replace your favorite messaging apps, but <\/span><b>to keep you longer on YouTube,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> since you won\u2019t go to other apps to share videos with your friends (as you know, one fun video leads to another\u2026 and you can spend hours without leaving the app!). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you don\u2019t yet have this option on your YouTube app, don\u2019t worry: Google is <\/span><b>staggering implementation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for all accounts.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"pb_feed\" data-embed-by=\"337cdca5-a3bb-4ba6-a9ce-8c94a94a5e34\" data-item=\"3f085793-7e8a-401b-9c32-faeee9d0c53a\" data-recommend=\"false\" data-game-info=\"false\" data-comments=\"false\" data-shares=\"false\" data-version=\"2\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube for smartphone has recently been adding improvements and updates. After announcing that soon they&#8217;ll include playback speed, now they\u2019ve surprised us with a new, more intriguing option: an internal chat system. This chat, available for YouTube iOS and Android apps, will be enabled when we share a video with one or more of our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/new-youtube-feature-takes-on-whatsapp\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New YouTube feature takes on WhatsApp&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2041,"featured_media":93280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2355],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-93047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionyoutube"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93047","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\/2041"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328621,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93047\/revisions\/328621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93047"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=93047"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=93047"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=93047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}