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July 22, 2015 07:00 pm GMT

YouTube is making vertical videos more bearable on Android screens

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Vertical videos are among the most hated things on the Internet. But Google is making them more bearable by presenting them full screen on Android devices.

The YouTube app previously showed vertical videos with two large black bars on either side of the screen. But when we looked at a YouTube video on an Android phone on Wednesday, it took advantage of tall smartphone screens and filled them entirely

See also: App Cures Vertical Video Syndrome

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Left: How a vertical video used to appear in YouTube's Android app. Right: How it appears now

Image: Android Police

The update did not show up on the YouTube app on iOS when we tested it, and Google did not immediately respond to Mashable's request for comment about whether it plans to change that. Read more...

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