YouTube has been dabbling with minor enhancements for its TV app, most notably decreasing the quantity of overlap while you’re watching a video and interacting with it.

The corporate introduced a small replace for the platform on Wednesday in a weblog put up, which goals to enhance performance with a bump to the left. In the event you’re watching a YouTube clip in your TV and need to pull up the video description or feedback, YouTube will now push the still-playing clip to the facet and produce up the information beside it, quite than on high.

“We started tinkering with the thought of decreasing the scale of the video participant and simplifying the interactions, so signature options comparable to feedback can stay alongside the content material quite than obscuring it,” wrote YouTube on TV interplay designer Joe Hines and product supervisor Aishwarya Agarwal within the put up.

“Throughout testing, customers shared with us that they wished the video to be smaller so they might higher learn feedback whereas watching. And we hope this design permits customers to have interaction extra deeply with different options comparable to chapters, key performs and buying, all straight on their TVs.”

Sure, primarily YouTube is simply transferring the video over a squanch, but it surely certain appears cleaner whereas making it simpler for creators to promote you issues whilst you’re watching. YouTube appears notably centered on this being an improved expertise for sports activities followers trying to convey up stay scores alongside their streams, whereas additionally benefiting creators who make their movies shoppable, with the record of merchandise that can be purchased sitting beside the video. Hines and Agarwal mentioned the group shall be engaged on extending the structure to accommodate movies with stay chat, Fantasy View, and Multiview down the road.

The characteristic will roll out “over the subsequent few weeks” on the YouTube app on TV and “within the subsequent few days” will come to YouTube TV subscribers.