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The post Essential Phone gets YouTube pinch-to-zoom support appeared first on BardTech . The Essential Phone has been one of the hottest devices since its release, mostly because of all the deals that made it an affordable flagship phone. Along with the Snapdragon 835 , 4GB of RAM, and 128GB of internal storage, it also sports a 5.71-inch display at 19:10 ratio. Unusual aspect ratios usually require a notch and the Essential PH-1 has a very little one. Unfortunately, traditional 16:9 videos always had black bars on this particular device, as YouTube’s pinch-to-zoom feature was not supported for it, until today. Just a couple of hours ago, user  osikiri on the Essential subreddit discovered that pinch-to-zoom suddenly started working for him on the Essential PH-1. He states that he’s using YouTube app version 13.34.50 running on Android 9 Pie. Google probably started a staged rollout of the feature. Some commenters mention that uninstalling the app, updating it, and th...

The post YouTube gets Digital Wellbeing tools, shows time spent watching videos appeared first on BardTech . Google announced Digital Wellbeing tools at Google I/O 2018. Today, they decided to add some of these tools to the YouTube application. I discovered the “Time watched” category when I was doing my daily routine of checking if the dark mode is available for me (it’s unfortunately not). The category can be found under your account, which is located at the top right corner. After taping on Time watched, YouTube didn’t hesitate to show me how productive my weekend was. You can see how much time you spent on watching videos today, yesterday, or last week. It can also calculate the daily average. Fortunately, you can also let YouTube remind you to take a break in your desired frequency. Scheduled digest has also moved to the same page. It still can be found under the Notifications category in Settings, but it’s still nice to see all Digital Wellbeing tools together. If you do...