YouTube Adds a ‘Create’ Button for Shorts in Player Interface
Feb. 9, 2021Havinglaunched YouTube Shortslast September to compete withapps like TikTok, YouTubeadded a dedicated Shorts buttonfor better discoverability of the feature in October. The company is now testing a new ‘Create’ button thatbrings the ability to create YouTube Shorts right to the video player interface.
As first reported byAndroid Police, the new Create button is available for YouTube users in India. The new Create button sits right next to the Share button.Tapping on the Create button gives you access to theShorts creation interface. Like you would expect, YouTube will preselect the song when you use this button. Once you reach this page, you can continue creating the short video as you’d normally do.
It is worth keeping in mind that this new Create button isn’t available on all music videos. This is probably due to song licensing limitations. However, the availability of the button could expand to more videos in the future. For videos that are not included, you get the usual Like, Dislike, Share, Download, and Save buttons, thereby creating an inconsistency in the player interface across different videos.
The worst part, however, is thatyou can’t disable this button. This is undoubtedly an inconvenience for those users who are not even remotely interested in creating and uploading short videos on YouTube. Thepresence of the Create button right next to the Share button could also lead to accidental tapswhen you’re trying to share a video with others. With such intrusive button placements, YouTubefollows Instagram’s pathin adding buttons that sabotage usage patterns and muscle memory.
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