You might like to observe YouTube movies as you go to sleep, however in the event you do you’ve got actually observed an enormous obtrusive omission within the service’s cellular apps. There’s completely no approach to make YouTube cease taking part in after a set time – there is not any sleep timer.
That is set to vary quickly. In accordance with a teardown of the latest model of the YouTube app for Android, a sleep timer is now lastly in improvement, as evidenced by the strings within the screenshot beneath.
As you’d count on, it will enable playback to cease after a specified time frame. If you have not really managed to go to sleep earlier than the timer ran out, you will get the choice to reset the timer or simply be achieved with it and proceed watching with none further timer. It is possible for you to to set a particular variety of hours and minutes for the timer, and the remaining time will probably be displayed as a notification.
YouTube Music already affords a sleep timer, as do many different streaming and podcast apps, however after all none of these will get as a lot use as YouTube so this will probably be a really good addition when it does lastly land.
The dearth of a sleep timer is much less of an issue on iOS, the place you may set a system-wide timer that may finish any playback when it reaches zero, however there is not an analogous possibility in Android.
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