YouTube Miniplayer Button Now Rolling Out to All Desktop Users

YouTube is now rolling out the Miniplayer button for all desktop users across the globe. This button essentially will allow users to collapse a video into a smaller window at the bottom of the screen and allow the user to browse through YouTube simultaneously. This small video player will come with pause, seek, play, and next or previous video buttons as well. The button can be found in the bottom bar on the video player on YouTube with all the controls. The feature was first spotted in testing in March this year.

The Miniplayer button sits in between the Theatre mode and Settings button in the video player. Clicking on it will collapse the video into Miniplayer mode - essentially a small window in the bottom right corner of the desktop display. This will enable users to navigate through YouTube and watch the video simultaneously. It is somewhat similar to the PiP mode in Android, but the Miniplayer button acts as a trigger to enter the mode manually. You can dismiss the Miniplayer by hitting the 'X' button or just by pressing ESC on your keyboard.

YouTube notes that this change is rolling out for all users, but it may be a slow rollout and you may not see the change immediately. On the product forums, YouTube notes that clicking on the Miniplayer title again or on the Miniplayer video player will take you back to the normal mode once again.

YouTube miniplayer button

The Google-owned service also notes that it has fixed the issue that was causing some upcoming live videos to show the "upcoming" time in the wrong time zone. YouTube has also added a 'save' label on playlists to enable saving them and then accessing them on mobile or web platform later on. Full fixes shared below:

• Some upcoming live videos were showing the "upcoming" time in the wrong timezone, fixed that!
• Added a "SAVE" label to the save to playlist button on video pages. Now everything's more consistent across web and our mobile apps!
• The text in some pop-up windows (for example, the window that appears when you click Share > Embed) would run over the edge of the window, fixed that!
• Some three-dot menu items were showing up blank with no info, fixed that!
• When you click 'Share' and use the 'Start At' checkbox, the time would sometimes be out of sync with the URL, fixed that!