

One finger will skip forward or back, but tapping with two fingers has a different purpose. Let’s stick with the double-tapping gestures. Double-Tap with Two Fingers to Skip Chapters It’s a great thing to do if you find yourself tapping the video too much. You can customize this length from five all the way to 60 seconds. Speaking of double-tapping to skip forward or back in a video, you can adjust the length of these skips. Rather than using the seek bar to skip forward and back in the video, simply double tap the left or right side of the video. Here’s a quick tip that will save you a lot of time watching videos on the YouTube mobile app.
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RELATED: How to Make YouTube Videos Always Fill Your Phone Screen Double Tap to Skip Forward & Back You won’t have to pinch-to-zoom every time, but you will be able to zoom out if too much of the video is being cut off.
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You can actually make it so videos will always fill the full screen.

You can pinch to zoom to fill the full screen when watching a video, but you have to do that every time. It’s pretty common for your phone’s display to have a different aspect ratio than YouTube videos. RELATED: How to Use Watch Later on YouTube Make YouTube Videos Always Fill Your Phone’s Screen It’s great for saving videos that you don’t want to forget about, and it works everywhere you can access the YouTube website or app. “Watch Later” is essentially just a playlist that you can add videos to for, you guessed it, watching later. What if you don’t have the time to watch it right at that moment? The “Watch Later” feature is perfect for this. You’ve probably been browsing YouTube and come across a video that looks interesting. RELATED: How to Find Your Comments on YouTube Save Videos to Watch Later You can go directly to the YouTube comment section and see them all in a chronological list. Your YouTube comment history is actually saved to the Google “My Activity” portal. However, there isn’t really a great way to see all of your comments in one place. If you’re an active commenter on YouTube, your comments are spread out across dozens of different videos. RELATED: How to Get the Transcript of a YouTube Video Find All of Your Comments You can transcripts on the YouTube desktop site and the iPhone and Android apps. This is particularly handy if you want to read the captions at your own pace, copy text, or even search for words spoken in a video. That’s obviously the main purpose of closed captions, but you can also get a full readout of the transcript. Closed captions appear in real-time as a video is playing.
