Wednesday 13 November 2019

How to Use YouTube’s Queue Feature

Add to Queue button shown on a video thumbnail in YouTube website
Khamosh Pathak

Unlike Netflix, YouTube was never really designed for binge-watching. You could install extensions, but they never worked well. Now, you can officially create a video queue from any page, sit back, and watch videos without leaving the player.

The video queue feature is available on the newly redesigned YouTube website. If you see bigger video thumbnails on the homepage and a new “Add To Queue” button when you hover over a thumbnail, you have access to the feature. If not, you’ll have to wait until YouTube rolls the update for all users.

YouTube hasn’t announced if it plans to bring the queue feature to its mobile apps on iPhone, iPad, or Android. For now, it’s only for those watching on their computers using a web browser.

The newly redesigned home page for YouTube

The Add to Queue button is available on the home page, the search page, and in the recommendations menu. So no matter where you are, you can start a queue. You can do this while watching a video, or before starting one.

Here’s how it works. Open the YouTube website on your computer and hover over a video thumbnail. Here, click on the “Add to Queue” button.

Click on Add to Queue after hovering on the thumbnail

This will instantly bring up a mini-player in the bottom-right corner of the screen. This is your queue. You can click on the “Play” button to start playing the video. But a queue with just one video isn’t much of a queue.

Let’s start by adding more videos. Hover over another video thumbnail and then tap on the “Add to Queue” button again to add it below the previous video. Do this for all the videos you want to watch in this session. You can navigate to a different YouTube page, and the mini player will stay put.

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