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TL;DR
- Google Photos will be introducing an improved video player UI with clear volume buttons, a pause button, and a new loop button to improve the user experience.
- The updated seek bar has a new dotted design that provides haptic feedback and enhances video scrubbing functionality.
- Users will now be able to double-tap the left and right sides of the video to rewind or fast forward in 5-second increments, adding more intuitive controls.
Google is constantly adding new features to its Photos app. Thanks to contributor Assemble Debug, we’re once again seeing some tweaks to Google Photos. Tipsters has taken a look at the latest version of the Photos app for Android, which enables a more modern UI and some new controls for the video player.
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First, Google Photos changes the appearance of the video player. Separate volume, pause, and loop buttons appear below the video, making it look more polished. In its current, unupdated state, the pause button is superimposed on top of the video and the volume button appears on the right. The loop button in the updated UI is new and allows users to turn the feature off or on while watching a video.
Google Photos current video player UI
The updated Google Photos video player UI also features a new seek bar that lets you scroll to different parts of your video. Not only has the design changed from the usual straight seekbar to a dotted version, but it also provides better haptic feedback when scrubbing through videos.
New video player UI for Google Photos
Finally, the updated video player lets you double-tap on the left and right sides to rewind or fast-forward the video in 5-second increments.
All these changes may also come to the Google Photos app in the near future. I managed to get it working with version 7.4 of the Google Photos app, but it required a bit of tinkering with the app to make it happen. We’ll let you know if and when Google makes new video player features more widely available.
