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Keep YouTube's extra player controls hidden with this handy guide
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If you've enabled the accessibility setting on your device, some extra media controls including a X icon will appear on the YouTube video player. This wikiHow will help you to hide these control buttons from your app.
Things You Should Know
- Tap on your profile icon within the YouTube app, and select Settings .
- Select Accessibility .
- Turn off the "Accessibility player" by moving the slider into the grey off position.
Steps
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Launch the YouTube app on your Android device. You can find the app icon on your app drawer. -
Tap on your profile icon. You can see this icon at the top-right corner of the app. The menu panel will show up.Advertisement -
Tap on Settings . This will be the second last option in the menu panel. -
Select the Accessibility setting from there. Scroll down to the bottom and tap on the “Accessibility” option. -
Turn off the “Accessibility player”. Tap on the slider next to the “Accessibility player” to disable the extra video player controls in the player. The slider will turn grey. That's it!- You can also set a timer to automatically hide the video player controls after specific seconds. Navigate to the “Hide player controls” option to do it.
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- You can also turn this accessibility setting off on your Android device. Go to Settings> Accessibility then turn off the different accessibility settings like Voice Access, Select to Speak and Talkback .Thanks
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