Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority
TL;DR YouTube has swapped the placement of the “Subscriptions” and the “You” tabs on the platform.
Users are not very happy with the change and are turning to third-party extensions to restore the UI to its original state.
YouTube has made yet another unpopular UI tweak, which users say serves no purpose. The platform has quietly flipped the positions of the “Subscriptions” tab and the “You” section, disrupting years of muscle memory. The old layout placed “Subscriptions” below the “You” section. Now “You” is tucked under “Subscriptions” in the sidebar.
How do you feel about YouTube moving the Subscriptions tab above the You section? 33 votes I hate it. It breaks my navigation flow. 55 % I dislike it but I can live with it. 3 % I don’t mind it. 9 % I actually prefer the new layout. 6 % I want to customize the sidebar order myself. 24 % I'm using (or will use) an extension to revert it. 3 %
Redditors say the update offers no real benefit. One person wrote, “Just saw this right now, and it’s awful. I didn’t like seeing different collab videos on my subscription tab, now this.”
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Another user added, “I much prefer having a singular subscription button up by the home page button and then all my you section.” Some also pointed out that the new order feels messy. As one user put it, “You can still click the whole button subscriptions to see your videos, but I don’t need a list of who I am subscribed to at the very top.”
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