YouTube is currently testing a new feature on mobile that will likely have few fans among users. The company is repurposing the vertical scroll gestures in fullscreen mode to switch to next or previous video, similar to Shorts, as noticed by user Tushar Mehta on X.
Currently, you can swipe up on a video in the mobile app to make it fullscreen and then swipe down on it to exit fullscreen. If you scroll up in fullscreen mode, you get a list of suggested videos.
The YouTube product team is fucking the gestures in the Android app one after another. Who the fuck wants to scroll on a long…
