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I wish there was a solution for Android. Sliders for fine grained selections are horrible in touch interfaces.

You can pull the slider up for finer control, though every now and then they tweak how well this works so YMMV

"fine grained" is relative, but you can go forwards/backwards 10 seconds in YouTube Android by doubletapping to the left/right of center on a video. If it's paused, doubletap to the left/right of the play button. It should also work on iOS, but I don't have an iPhone so can't confirm.

https://www.majorgeeks.com/content/page/youtube_double_tap.h...

I use iOS and can confirm that double tap on left or right side works to jump forward backward there too. I often use it when I watch a video and I miss what was said so I jump back a bit and watch again.

You can also set the skipping jumps to 5 seconds in the settings

I wish we had standardized on “the longer you leave your finger, the finer the control”, but it seems like no one even adds that modality.

Its swipe up while moving the trackbar to go into fine control and down again for coarse.

YT also has Premium Controls whcih is a widget but I think it's experimental and not on mobile yet.

Swipe up only works when:

1. There is enough room. Works fine for media controls where the bar is near the bottom of the screen, but not for sliders in most other places

2. The control is not close enough to the bottom of the screen for swipe up to trigger the multitasking action

There are many other reasons to have fine-grain control for sliders and imo “hold longer for finer control” works in more places than “slide up for finer control”

When is the slider not at the bottom when you want fine-seeking? In cases when its not fullscreen, I don't ever need fine seeking.

It's not really "slide up" its just a very tiny motion, maybe less than 1cm of travel to enable it.

We already have long press and 3D Touch events via the "hold longer" action, which might work, but I've had no real issues with the YT solution.

> When is the slider not at the bottom when you want fine-seeking?

When your slider is not controlling video playback

I'd consider that a different UI component completely.

YT implementation turns the fine-tuning seekbar into a series of thumbnails to help find where you are.

Stuff like this obviously doesn't make sense for controlling something that is not a video.

I do like some tools which let you fine-control slider once you have click-and-held by scrolling the mouse wheel, but no solution here for mobile.

Can't you double click the left or right edges of the video to scroll 5 seconds to the past or future?

This works in my modded old version of the YouTube app; Alphabet might have removed it in newer versions.

Same on iOS.

At least in Android you can pull the slider up for finer control, though every now and then they tweak how well this works so YMMV

Same on iOS

I doubt there's any Android exclusive feature to apps developed by Google. Sometimes feels like they even prioritise iOS over Android.

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