Change how to use YouTube completely with the keyboard

Youtube is a product of Google. This is the most popular online video sharing website in the world today. Every day with hundreds of millions of visits, it is also a place where you can share and store interesting and useful videos for yourself and everyone. Like other social networking sites, Youtube is also integrated by many interesting utilities for users to experience. Besides using with familiar mouse operations, you can also use YouTube with the keyboard.

Yes, surely you do not know that, YouTube on Windows operating system has the ability to change the interface. And in this new interface, users can operate on YouTube entirely by keyboard, no mouse needed.

Just by adding a short command to the back, we can change the Youtube interface and use YouTube without the mouse.

Use YouTube entirely by keyboard

Step 1 : From the main interface of Youtube, click on the address bar and add ' / leanback ' to the back, then Enter.

Step 2 : After entering that command, the system will take you to a completely new Youtube interface (this is the interface that YouTube designed for big screen TVs). From this point on, you can put your mouse aside and perform all operations right on your own keyboard. Specifically:

1. Use the 4 arrow keys to search for the video clip to watch.
2. Enter to confirm.
3. Some shortcuts like S (search) will help with the search, ESC to go back or exit .

For example:

Instead of using the arrow keys to advance or reverse 5s like a normal YouTube application, when using YouTube with the keyboard, the arrow keys will have the function of moving the video to the left and right, making it easy to select your clip. want to see in the same category (same horizontal line).

In addition, you can also use the up / down arrow keys to move, search and change the categories and genres of videos to watch (the top videos with the bottom row).

Step 3 : After selecting the video you like, press Enter to start playing the video.

When viewing clips on Youtube, we also use the keys to perform clip manipulation:

1. Arrow to side : Move to the next feature (go back, pause, forward .).
2. Up and down arrows : Used to open another list of selected videos. As for the two ESC keys (Back) and S (Search), they will have the feature to return to the previous section or open the search interface at any time.

When the 'leanback' YouTube is in the main interface, just press the left arrow key, the optional interface (red) will appear and provide some options such as Home, Search, Settings or Sign In to facilitate convenient for logging into YouTube account .

If you notice, users will find the 'leanback' Youtube Search interface quite strange, completely different from the default version. In the search section, instead of only one blank, white field, the new interface provides a full alphabet, with numbers, dots, commas, dashes . for users to use.

This will be a perfect help for those who do not have the mouse to use or do not want to use the mouse because of entanglement.

I wish you all success!

See more:

1. Instructions for customizing YouTube video subtitles on Android phones, iPhone / iPad
2. How to stop videos automatically played in the YouTube application
3. Guide to hide the list of liked YouTube videos, saved on iPhone, iPad