YouTube Tests Sleep Timer for Premium Subscribers
Your YouTube videos can now go to bed shortly after you as well.
Tired of waking up to an unexpected YouTube video playing? You're not alone. Many of us have fallen asleep while watching YouTube and found ourselves unintentionally binge-watching into the wee hours. The original video might have even ended and jumped to the next video.
To help you address this, YouTube is testing a sleep timer feature.
This handy feature will allow YouTube Premium subscribers to set a timer to automatically pause playback after a specified time, ranging from 10 minutes to 60 minutes, or at the end of the current video.
This will stop YouTube videos from playing at the specified time. You do not have to wake up to manually turn it off, the video will automatically stop once it's time and you do not interact with it.
The feature is currently available on both mobile app and desktop platforms, but not available for TV. The testing, as reported by 9to5Google, will run through 2 September.
To access this feature, turn on this timer on your mobile device by selecting "Settings > Try experimental new features."
While currently exclusive to YouTube Premium subscribers, this feature could potentially become available to all users in the future, even for free.
