YouTube Music revamps Now Playing with dualpane queue

YouTube Music has begun rolling out a redesigned Now Playing interface for Android and iOS, moving key playback controls, introducing a dualpane queue view and refreshing the progress bar as part of a serverside update that began testing in November. The update is reaching more users this month, though availability varies by region and device and some listeners report issues after the change.

The most visible change relocates frequently used actions into a compact carousel beneath the song and artist information. That carousel consolidates thumbs up and down, comments, Save, Lyrics, the video-song toggle, Share, Download and Radio, while the Cast button remains in the top right corner next to the overflow menu. Playback controls such as previous, play and next have been shifted closer to the song title, which can now be tapped to access Related tracks and the artist page.

The progress scrubber has been visually reworked. The playhead is now a boxy shape and the scrubber bar thickens while being interacted with, reflecting a more material-inspired aesthetic. The Related and Lyrics sheets no longer carry separate theming and display the current song title and play-pause control in...