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TL; DR
- YouTube Premium members in the US can now try out the new 'Jump Ahead' feature on the platform.
- It uses AI to let you skip to parts of a video that most viewers would normally skip.
- The feature only works in the YouTube Android app and is only available for select English videos.
YouTube is now rolling out its new AI-powered 'Jump Ahead' feature more widely. The platform started testing the feature in March and it is now available as an extra YouTube premium subscribers.
Jump Ahead lets you jump to the best parts of a video by combining user data and AI to predict what you'll want to watch. The feature was previously only available to select Premium users in the US, but all YouTube Premium members can now try it out youtube.com/new. For now, the feature only works on the YouTube Android app in the US and is only available for English-language videos.
Since it is an experimental feature, YouTube has stated that it can only be tried out until June 1. After the deadline, the platform can officially roll out the feature as part of its Premium subscription, or expand the experiment further.
How to use Jump Ahead on YouTube?
After you sign up for the experiment, you'll see a “Jump Forward” button when you double-tap to skip forward to an eligible video. Clicking the button will take you to where most viewers typically skip. YouTube notes that all videos do not yet support the feature.