Touch Controls for YouTube

Touch Controls for YouTube provides VLC-style gesture-based brightness and volume controls for YouTube when playing videos in full screen mode.

You can increase or decrease the volume by swiping your finger up or down on the right side of the screen. Swiping the finger on the left adjusts the screen brightness.

Only the official YouTube and YouTube Go apps are supported.

Go premium to enable:

• Brightness controls
• Tap action
• Double tap action
• Long press action
• Volume control action
• Seek support
• Tap anywhere to cancel autoplay
• Double tap anywhere to confirm autoplay
• Keyboard control

If the overlays do not work please try restarting the device.

This app uses Accessibility services.

Disclosure on the use of accessibility services:

• The accessibility service is used to detect when the YouTube/YouTube Go app is playing videos in fullscreen ('Monitor your actions' and 'Retrieve window content'). This will activate the transparent touch overlays to control device brightness and volume (permissions 'Apps that can appear on top' and 'Apps that can change system settings').

• The accessibility service is used to perform a touch gesture in order to make the player controls visible ('Perform gestures').

• The accessibility service is used to used to listen to key strokes to support hardware keyboard control functionality e.g. pressing Space key to play/pause the video ('Observe text you type').

• The accessibility service is limited to the YouTube/YouTube Go app. It will not receive events from any other app.

• The app does not obtain or collect any personal information related to your YouTube activity.