Social & Messaging Product Roadmap · 6 Active Feature Proposals · 23,309 Priority Votes

YouTube Feature Requests & Community Product Feedback

YouTube is a leading Social & Messaging platform tracked on CrowdFeatures. Engineers, product managers, and power users use this board to propose new YouTube capabilities, upvote high-priority roadmap items, and verify features that have already launched in production.

Key Engineering & Product Focus Areas for YouTube

  • Chronological Feed Controls & Signal Filtering
  • Threaded Knowledge Indexing & Search
  • End-to-End Encryption & Creator Audio Controls

Top Community Feature Requests for YouTube

Transparent content moderation appeals

Creators get strikes with vague explanations and robotic appeal responses. Provide detailed reasoning for every action and allow human-reviewed appeals within 48 hours.

Company: YouTube · Upvotes: 6664 · Marked Shipped: 0 · Proposed by @StrikedCreator · View discussion & vote →

Native sponsorship segment skipping

SponsorBlock is a community extension that already does this. YouTube should build native sponsor segment markers so viewers can skip in-video ads with one tap.

Company: YouTube · Upvotes: 2039 · Marked Shipped: 0 · Proposed by @AdFreeViewer · View discussion & vote →

Picture-in-picture for all free users

PiP should not be locked behind Premium on mobile. Every other video app supports it for free. This is a basic OS-level feature that YouTube artificially restricts.

Company: YouTube · Upvotes: 3717 · Marked Shipped: 0 · Proposed by @FreeTierUser · View discussion & vote →

Bring back public dislike counters

Hiding the dislike ratio crippled the ability to gauge if a tutorial is a scam or outdated. The Chrome extension works but it should be natively visible again.

Company: YouTube · Upvotes: 6127 · Marked Shipped: 0 · Proposed by @YTFanboy · View discussion & vote →

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