YouTube 12.44 now allows pinching on the screen to fit the video to 18: 9 screens

For a few years, I would say enough, all the videos that are uploaded to the YouTube video platform do so in 16: 9 format adapting to the format of modern monitors, laptops and televisions as well as smartphones. But for just over a year, the new trend in smartphones has gone through reduce the width of the screen by enlarging the length, so that we obtain a screen format of 18: 9, so when playing videos from the YouTube platform, two black bands appear on both sides. That little problem is a thing of the past.

The new Google Pixel 2 XL has also adopted this screen format and at the moment it was the only mobile on the market that natively allowed pinch on the screen of 16: 9 YouTube videos to fit the 18: 9 screen. The latest update of the YouTube application, number 12.44, also offers this functionality to all users of smartphones with this screen format such as the Samsung S8 + and the LG V30 so that they can finally make the black edges of the screen disappear when they play videos from the Google YouTube video platform.

The 16: 9 format is used to record most television series, and is the one used by default by smartphones when recording videos, regardless of their resolution. However, some production companies are beginning to use 18: 9 format, as is the case with the Netflix series Strangers Things. Let's hope that this new format does not become generalized quickly and that we will once again suffer the happy black strip (typical of 4: 3 format televisions) both above and below as it currently happens in movies, where it is used most of the time. the 21: 9 format and that shows us some hateful black stripes both at the top and bottom of the screen.

But everything seems to indicate that soon, the new TV models that hit the market will begin to offer the 18: 9 format as a standard which will force us to renew our television If we want to enjoy the full width of the screen without suffering the black stripes both above and below in the TV series, if this new format is standardized. Meanwhile, if we have a smartphone with an 18: 9 screen, we can download the application update to be able to enjoy the entire screen of our smartphone when we use YouTube.