Let’s take a look at some other useful YouTubeĬommands, tips, and tricks you can use to quickly navigate the website. STEP 4: Click on 3 dots and navigate to More tools> Add to Desktop. STEP 3: Here you will see 3 dots on the extreme right of the top of your screen. Here are some more: Turn captions on/off with c, cycle through caption background color options with b, and move to new videos in a playlist with SHIFT + p for previous, or SHIFT + n for next. As this method only works for Google Chrome browser. Finally, press t to go into theater mode. Pressing i will return you back to the video page. Pressing f will take you to fullscreen, and pressing ESC will leave fullscreen.Īlternatively, press i to create a small picture in picture video that lets you keep browsing whilst you view. Want to change the scale of the video? You can do that too. You can mute or unmute the video with m too.
Want to increase or decrease the volume on the fly? The up and down arrows will incrementally increase or decrease the YouTube player’s volume by 5%. This may be useful for getting screenshots at specific moments or catching any small details you may otherwise miss in a video.
If you have recently moved from a Windows PC to a Mac, then you might find it frustrating not being to able to place app icon shortcuts on your Mac’s desktop screen. Finally, you can move frame by frame by using ‘.’ or ‘,’ when the video is paused. In contrast to this Windows allows users to freely place app shortcuts and even original app icons on the desktop.
