YouTube Music adds ‘Recently Played’ iOS 16 Lock Screen widgets

Final week, Google rolled out its preliminary set of iOS 16 Lock Display screen widgets, and YouTube Music is now the newest iPhone app to introduce a pair.

“Just lately Performed” gives “Fast entry to your lately performed movies, albums, and playlists.” It’s obtainable in a 2×1 configuration that includes a grayscale YTM icon, observe identify, and its origin, like a playlist (and its creator/curator), album (with artist), or tune radio. The widget updates shortly after you choose a brand new tune.

There’s additionally a 1×1 widget that exhibits the app’s emblem within the background and tune identify that’s typically truncated. It appears to be like a bit unusual, however serves the aim of shortly beginning audio upon faucet. This performance is much like YouTube Music’s current homescreen widgets.

YouTube Music’s iOS 16 Lock Display screen widget was launched with model 5.29 on Tuesday. This joins Chrome, Google Drive, Gmail, Information, Maps, and Search.

It follows the YouTube app getting reasonably helpful homescreen widgets earlier this month. In the meantime, YouTube Music is slowly rolling out a redesigned playlist view on cell after first introducing it for Android tablets.