People have been dealing with the issue of YouTube Shorts playing automatically when they open the app. Well, there’s another issue involving auto-playing YouTube videos on the app, and people are annoyed. For some reason, when people open YouTube, the first video in their feed would start playing.
Circling back to the former issue, users have been complaining for months that they would open the YouTube app to see a Short playing automatically. According to the company, this isn’t a scheme to shove more Shorts down users’ throats. It stated that it’s working on fixing the bug. While some people brought this to the forefront a few months ago, we’ve seen it as far back as more than half a year ago.
YouTube videos are auto-playing when people open the app
As always, people are hopping onto the internet to air their grievances with this issue. When users open the app, the first video in their feed starts playing automatically. It doesn’t affect everyone, but it’s happening to a small group. This seems like a pretty annoying bug… except, it’s not a bug.
One user reached out to YouTube to ask about the issue, and the company told them that it was an experiment. YouTube is testing this auto-playing video feature on a select group of users. What’s unfortunate is that it’s not one of the tests that you can opt into. If you were chosen for the experiment, you will just need to ride it out.
Right now, it only seems like it’s affecting Android users. We don’t know if the company plans to push this experiment over to iOS users, but only time will tell.
People do not like this experiment, and it’s easy to see why
We’re not sure why YouTube even wants to experiment with this feature. When someone wants to go on YouTube, they’re looking to shop around for content or go to a specific channel. People rarely want to just have the first video thrown at them.
This only makes us think that the auto-playing Shorts bug was also intentional. Rather than having YouTube be what it’s been all of these years, it seems that the company wants to throw content at you in much the same way as TikTok or Instagram. Rather than hopping onto the app and looking through content yourself, you’d just have the content thrown at you.
Right now, it seems that people do not like this experiment. Hopefully, YouTube won’t make it a permanent thing.
