YouTube is testing a floating ‘Play something’ button

YouTube is testing a new floating “Play something” button that will select a video for you. 9 to 5 google spot In the YouTube app for Android. This button floats just above the bottom bar of the app, and when clicked, it selects a YouTube video to play for you.

as in earlier version YouTube has been testing this feature, and the new button reportedly uses the portrait-oriented YouTube Shorts player to display videos, whether they are vertically formatted Shorts or standard YouTube videos. Hopefully, that will change when the feature is widely released.