10 Hacks Every YouTube User Should Know
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Key Points:
- YouTube offers a variety of hidden features that enhance user experience, including the ability to search video transcripts with Ctrl-F by accessing the transcript via the video description.
- Users can set sleep timers on both web and mobile platforms to pause videos after a set duration, preventing disturbances during long videos or streams.
- Precise video navigation is facilitated by keyboard shortcuts such as arrow keys for 5-second jumps, J-K-L keys for 10-second increments, and frame-by-frame movement using the comma and period keys on the web.
- The mobile app includes unique controls like double-tap to skip 10 seconds, long-press to temporarily fast-forward at 2x speed, and customizable video quality defaults based on network type.
