YouTube is ane of the few video services and apps that didn't offer a playback queue until recently. The feature first showed upwardly in testing in August then rolled out to everyone in November, but so far, it'south remained express to the web and may not be very easy to spot. In this tutorial we'll expect at how YouTube's new queue organization works and hash out some of its advantages and limitations.

Queue vs. Sentinel after or playlists

For years now, YouTube has allowed us to add videos to a Watch later listing (or any other custom list). This feature is usually easily accessible on all videos, whether on the web or mobile, and lets us bookmark content we're interested in but don't have the time for right away.

In that regard, queue management is very dissimilar. It's more immediate and ephemeral. You can hands add a video to your queue from anywhere on the website and it'll show up in the mini-player, simply one click away from starting playback. With lists, you lot have to add the video, notice the list, cull a video to go started with, then play it. YouTube also built queues so they but final i session — close your current tab or move to a different computer and your queue is gone, whereas your Watch later list stays untouched and you have to clean it manually.

The queue is thus faster and more than suited for spur-of-the-moment binging sessions, whereas lists like Lookout later are better for bookmarking and organizing content you'd similar to lookout man in the future.

How to add together videos to the queue

One of the simplest ways to add a video to the queue on YouTube web is to simply hover over its thumbnail and look for the two buttons that show up on the top right: the clock is forWatch later, the list is for the queue. Simply click that and the video will transfer to the mini-actor on the bottom right of your YouTube window.

Top : Hover over a video in a channel to add information technology to queue. Bottom : This besides works in the dwelling tab, subscriptions, search results.

The 2 quick-action buttons are available on video thumbnails on the dwelling folio, subscriptions tab, in searches, and on channel pages too. Notwithstanding, there are a few places where you lot won't observe them, similar within playlists for example, then you need to click the overflow button (three dots) and choose Add to queue.

Add together to the queue from the overflow menu.

Watching videos from the queue

Once you've added a video, or several, to the queue, you merely need to hover over the mini-thespian on the bottom right to find the playback controls. These let y'all play, pause, skip, or rewind.

Mini-actor controls.

Y'all tin can too aggrandize the queue by clicking the upwardly pointer next to the video's championship. This shows your entire queue and lets you click on whatever video to outset it immediately.

Expand to see the queue.

When you hover over the currently playing video in the mini-player, yous can also see an "expand" pointer on the superlative left. This switches to YouTube'due south theater or default views, letting y'all enjoy the content on a larger scale merely without loosing the queue.

Expand to get a larger view while even so maintaining control over the queue.

Manage the queue

With the queue list expanded, you can drag to reorder videos or delete the ones you're no longer interested in.

Drag to reorder or delete a video.

And finally, if yous simply close the mini-player, you'll lose the current queue. You'll exist warned almost it, though, so you tin can abolish this before it's too late.

Yous'll be warned that the queue will be cleared if you close the mini-thespian.

Even so, if you close the electric current tab, there'due south no warning: Your queue will disappear and y'all'll have to build it from scratch when you lot open YouTube again. On Chrome, speedily reopening the airtight tab (CTRL/CMD + Shift + T) seems to bring the queue back, simply I wouldn't trust this. If you've built a queue, information technology'southward ameliorate to avoid closing the tab birthday until you're done watching the videos than to lose it.

A few months after the characteristic was get-go tested, YouTube queues nonetheless seem to suffer from the aforementioned limitations every bit before. They don't piece of work on mobile nonetheless and there's no cantankerous-device saving so you lot have to build the queue again if you switch computers. Hopefully these features volition be added soon.