YouTube is testing a new floating “Play Something” button that selects videos for you, 9to5Google reports on the YouTube Android app. The button floats above the bottom bar of the app, and when pressed, it selects a YouTube video to play.
As with previous versions of this feature that YouTube has been testing, the new button reportedly uses the portrait-oriented YouTube Shorts player to show videos, whether they’re vertically formatted shorts or standard YouTube videos. Hopefully, this will change by the time the feature is widely released.
Other options that the company has been testing for over a year include a “Turn on something” banner and a simple button that looks like a black and white YouTube logo. If the feature’s name sounds familiar, it may be because last year Netflix shut down a similar random video selection feature called “Surprise Me,” which was originally launched in 2021 under the name “Play Something.”
