Learn how to change the double-tap skip forward and rewind duration from the default 10 seconds to something else in the YouTube mobile app on your iPhone or Android phone.
YouTube’s video player supports a handy gesture to navigate a playing video clip in both portrait and landscape orientations:
- Double-tap on the left side of the video player to rewind ten seconds.
- Double-tap on the right side of the video player to skip forward ten seconds.
But if 10 seconds isn’t suitable for you, you can change it to 5 to 60 seconds.
Change double-tap skip duration in the YouTube app
Out of the box, when you double-tap the YouTube video player in the app, it jumps forward or backward in 10-second increments, which I think is the sweet spot. But if you think otherwise, here’s how to customize this setting.
1) Open the YouTube app on your iPhone or Android phone.
2) Tap You from the bottom bar, then tap the gear icon at the top right.
3) Scroll down and tap Playback.
4) Tap Skip forward and back and select 5 seconds, 10 seconds, 15 seconds, 20 seconds, 30 seconds, or 60 seconds. From now on, when you double-tap on the YouTube video player, it will skip the number of seconds you selected in this step.
If you’re watching a video in a computer browser like Google Chrome, Firefox, or Safari, you can press the right arrow key on the keyboard to skip forward 5 seconds and the left arrow key to go back 5 seconds. Unfortunately, I could not find a built-in way to change this 5-second skip behavior to something else.
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