YouTube Music assists, “lightning fast”, the user: new icon for smart downloads

Among the characteristic functions of YouTube Music, there is the one that analyzes the history of the songs listened to and finds similar ones, automatically downloading them into memory so as to have them ready even when you are offline or if you do not want to affect the data of your phone plan. In the past few hours, in silence, Google has changed the icon of the feature.

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If until yesterday – but probably more than someone still displays it now – the associated icon was of a checkmark in a circular pattern, today the stylization of a lightning bolt is displayed, always within a circular pattern. It can be seen well from the screenshots taken by 9to5google.com colleagues.

The novelty is visible in several of the virtual environments of YouTube Music for Android such as the Download page next to albums and playlists, offline mixtapes included, while within the “manual” playlists there is still the previous checkmark. The novelty, in short, will be totally up to speed in a few hours or days, probably when it will be distributed to anyone, maybe even on iOS.

Activate smart downloads, or scheduled as Google calls them, you have to open the YouTube Music app, tap on your profile picture, then on Downloads and settings and finally activate Scheduled Downloads.

The music selection is updated every night if the device is connected to the Wi-Fi network. Updating is also possible via mobile data without limitations, depending on the download settings. In addition, the battery must have more than 40% charge. Downloaded music can be played for up to 30 days after disconnecting from the Internet – warns Google.

YouTube Music is the subject of continuous updates. Last week, for example, an optimization arrived for “the logic of the back end that chooses the music that appears in Song Radio” so as to “increase the variety of artists proposed in the playlists”.

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