For many people, consuming YouTube content has become a one of their main leisure habits. This is logical, of course, because the platform has managed to attract all kinds of creators to stock up on a large, varied and recommended content offer, with which we can learn from thousands of secrets of oriental cuisine and discover how it really is. spend the night. In America’s most haunted motel, see what happens when we turn milk into a fizzy drink or step into the shoes of students facing mock driver’s license practice tests. The variety is endless.

This is one of the advantages of YouTube we can access its content from virtually any platform, which is of course gained by the users, but also by the platform, because in this way it exponentially expands its reach. It’s no wonder that smartphones have been the main way of accessing content for some time now for many users, especially the youngest, an audience that many of these services are extremely keen on.

Smartphones, like tablets, allow us to enjoy content anytime, anywhere, with the only requirement to have an internet connection, which is very practical. But against him They also cause some usability and user experience issues.. Some of them, such as the size of the display on smartphones, are difficult to solve, but there are others that can be solved with proper deployment.

This is the case, as we can read in PhoneArena, of accidental keystrokes. Have you ever accidentally pressed the screen and stopped playback? This problem (minor, yes, but very common) occurs even more often if, for whatever reason, we hold the smartphone in our hand while playing. The good news is that YouTube is testing a lock screen mode to avoid this problem. In other words, the screen continues to display the content being played, but the response to user keystrokes is disabled.

At the moment this feature is being tested by some YouTube Premium users, a payment method for the service, which leads us to think that, at least at its debut, the screen lock to prevent accidental key presses will be exclusive to paid accounts, which also makes sense, since it is known that Google intends to explore ways to increase the number of Premium subscribers. Something you’ve most likely already deduced if you’re a regular YouTuber, and that’s why you’ve noticed the large amount of advertising and constant promotion of Premium mode.