YouTube has thousands if not millions of videos to help people fall asleep, learn, or study. Videos of 8-plus hours of white noise, river sounds, etc. There are also many long podcasts that people enjoy listening to.
Many people love to use YouTube to fall asleep, but it doesn’t have a sleep timer. This makes it difficult to know where you left off, especially if you are listening to a podcast.
Now according to a report from Android Authority, YouTube is getting ready to roll out a sleep timer letting you start a video only to stop it at a set time.
This sleep timer feature is like that of YouTube Music. It’s a simple feature but one that will make YouTube much more usable for millions of people who want to fall to sleep with the app.
YouTube has recently been slowly rolling out new features, including a new AI system that will let YouTube Premium subscribers automatically skip forward to the most relevant part of a video. Google hopes this feature will help you save time by skipping over irrelevant information. This feature is currently only available to YouTube Premium members.
Google uses similar AI systems to help you find relevant parts of videos in Google search. Looking for how to repair a certain car problem? You may have noticed how Google will recommend a specific chapter of a YouTube video about that issue instead of the whole video. Now something similar is coming to YouTube.
Based on your search and other factors, YouTube will skip forward in videos to what it believes you will be most interested in if you ask its AI assistant to do so by turning this feature on. To enable this, double tap on your screen to skip ahead, and there you will find a button on eligible videos to jump forward to the AI-recommended spot in the video.