YouTube is testing a sleep timer feature for Premium users

The sleep timer feature is designed to address a common problem: Many users tend to watch videos late at night and easily fall asleep while the video is still playing. This can lead to sleep being interrupted by the sound from the video or the content automatically switching to another video.

With this new feature, users can set the time to automatically stop playing videos after about 10 to 60 minutes, or choose to stop playing immediately when the video ends.

Video timer feature on YouTube Premium

The sleep timer is currently being tested on both the mobile and desktop apps for YouTube Premium users, a paid subscription service that offers an ad-free experience, the ability to download videos for offline viewing, and other advanced features.

Limiting this feature to Premium users has created some controversy in the user community. Many believe that the sleep timer feature is a basic utility and should be provided for free to everyone, regardless of service plan. However, this may be YouTube's first step in testing and evaluating the effectiveness of this feature before deciding to roll it out more widely.

While this feature is currently limited to Premium users, YouTube is likely to roll it out to all users soon and may even offer it for free in the future. This opens up the possibility of Google bringing more features to the platform that will improve the user's video viewing experience.

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