YouTube is working on a new function that will allow you to configure a sleep timer on the platform, with which users will be able to specify a time interval so that, once completed, the playback of video content will automatically turn off or suspend.
The music streaming platform implemented a sleep timer in its YouTube Music application, limited to podcasts. Later, in April of last year, it expanded its use generally by including it in the ‘Now Playing’ tab, so that users could define when to turn off or suspend the playback of songs after a specific time.
Now, the technology company is working to add the sleep timer function to the main YouTube platform, so that users can also set when the playback of videos is suspended, regardless of their content, automatically.
This function appears in the latest beta version of the Android application (version 19.25.33), where lines of code are shown that refer to the “Sleeper timer”, as Android Authority has learned. after analyzing the YouTube APK code.
According to the aforementioned medium, these lines of code can refer to issues such as the hours or minutes left until playback stops, or the existence of notifications that will be displayed on the screen, as suggested by the ‘sleep_timer_notification_channel_name’ line.
This feature also allows the options to reset the timer when finished or continue watching content. This is a useful option for those who, for example, use a device to watch YouTube videos before going to sleep, since playback can be suspended at the automatically configured time.
With all this, the sleep timer is a feature in development that YouTube is still working on, so, at the moment, it has not been implemented for users.
