Make YouTube Music look good on foldables with this setting

I really like YouTube Premium and YouTube Music. Even with the current worth hike, the worth I get from ad-free YouTube and all of the music on YouTube Music is unparalleled, particularly with my household plan. That doesn’t imply I don’t have complaints, although. The machine restrict is silly and troublesome to reset, and the app has by no means been good on my foldables. Fortunately, the current UI refresh has fastened a few of my complaints with the latter.

Earlier than the redesign of the now enjoying UI, YouTube Music refused to indicate its foldable UI on Samsung’s foldables except you rotated the cellphone into panorama. You may see this within the photos above: my Galaxy Z Fold 4, which hadn’t been up to date but, has the usual UI stretched to fill its display screen, losing area. The Galaxy Z Fold 7, which has been up to date, lastly reveals the multi-column UI, granting faster entry to the queue and making higher use of the accessible area.

When you’ve got a Fold 7, there’s a very good probability you aren’t seeing this transformation but. To get this UI working, it is advisable to change the cellphone’s display screen zoom. Navigate to Settings > Show > Display format and zoom. By default, Samsung telephones have their display screen zoom set to most. When that’s the case, some Google apps, like Hold, gained’t present their foldable UI except you’re holding your cellphone in panorama. Earlier than the UI redesign, YouTube Music ignored this setting, however now it lastly makes use of it.

Sadly, I can’t say for positive which of Samsung’s foldables this may work on. Even after I up to date my Fold 4 to the newest model of YouTube Music, it refuses to indicate the multi-column design in portrait view, though I’ve the up to date app UI. That is probably resulting from the truth that the Fold 4 has a narrower show than the Fold 7, so your mileage could fluctuate primarily based on which mannequin of Z Fold you might have.

As pleased as I’m to see YouTube Music’s app working higher than ever on my Fold 7, the expertise on flip telephones is horrible. One in every of my favourite issues about my 2023 Razr Plus is the quilt display screen. I take advantage of the cellphone as a music participant after I’m in mattress, and the shape issue makes it good for that, as long as I’m utilizing Spotify as a substitute of YouTube Music.

Check out the video above, and also you’ll see the issue. YouTube Music doesn’t present any strategy to entry lyrics or the tune queue on the Razr’s cowl display screen, and my Z Flip 6 has the identical subject. Everytime you pull up the now enjoying UI, it makes use of the full-screen UI that’s supposed to indicate in your cellphone in panorama mode. Meaning all of the playback controls disappear after a number of seconds, and you need to contact the display screen to deliver them again, and there’s no strategy to see the queue.

Spotify has no such subject. Even within the cramped area of my 2023 Razr’s cowl display screen, I can nonetheless entry all of the music controls I want, together with the queue and lyrics pages. I do know this isn’t the worst drawback on the earth, however it’s irritating. Google has been placing important effort into Android to make it the perfect platform for folding telephones, but it surely appears all of that focus has been on book-style folds, not flip telephones.

Are you happy with YouTube Music in your folding cellphone? Or is there nonetheless one thing that stops you from utilizing it? I’d love to listen to from you.