YouTube begins testing the “Explore” tab in its Android application

YouTube begins testing the “Explore” tab in its Android application

The experimental tab "Explore" in YouTube has appeared for a limited number of Android users.

YouTube begins testing the “Explore” tab in its Android application

More than a year after Google first announced its “Explore” tab in YouTube, it is still under limited testing to this day, and if you remember, last July YouTube started testing this tab in its iOS app, although Although only about 1 percent of users viewed this feature, the comments were very positive.


Today, the company begins with a step aimed at expanding the test patch to include more operating platforms, including the Android operating system.

For its part, it will be the “Explore” tab instead of the “Trending” or most popular tab, and it will play a similar role in recommending new content, but in a more personalized way, so that it will actually provide recommendations based on the user’s watch activity, as well as helping viewers get More variety and seeing different types of content

With this support, there is a new change from what we saw in the test version on iOS, where instead of the monochrome icons for the themes for the tag, there are now colorful tiles on top, and popular videos still exist.

Finally, Google indicated that this new design is intended to better present supportive content for emerging channels.