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I love YouTube Premium and YouTube Music. Even with the recent price hike, the value I get from ad-free YouTube and all the music on YouTube Music is unparalleled, especially with my family plan. That doesn’t mean I don’t have complaints, though. The device limit is stupid and difficult to reset, and the app has never been good on my foldables. Thankfully, the recent UI refresh has fixed some of my complaints with the latter.
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A good foldable UI — if you change this setting
Old UI on Fold 4 New UI on Fold 7
Before the redesign of the now playing UI, YouTube Music refused to show its foldable UI on Samsung’s foldables unless you rotated the phone into landscape. You can see this in the images above: my Galaxy Z Fold 4, which hadn’t been updated yet, has the standard UI stretched to fill its screen, wasting space. The Galaxy Z Fold 7, which has been updated, finally shows the multi-column UI, granting quicker access to the queue and making better use of the available space.
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If you have a Fold 7, there’s a good chance you aren’t seeing this change yet. To get this UI working, you need to change the phone’s screen zoom. Navigate to Settings > Display > Screen layout and zoom. By default, Samsung phones have their screen zoom set to maximum. When that’s the case, some Google apps, like Keep, won’t show their foldable UI unless you’re holding your phone in landscape. Before the UI redesign, YouTube Music ignored this setting, but now it finally makes use of it.
Unfortunately, I can’t say for sure which of Samsung’s foldables this will work on. Even after I updated my Fold 4 to the latest version of YouTube Music, it refuses to show the multi-column design in portrait view, even though I have the updated app UI. This is likely due to the fact that the Fold 4 has a narrower display than the Fold 7, so your mileage may vary based on which model of Z Fold you have.
YouTube Music sucks on flip phones
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