The 'DoubleTap to Quick-Seek' video playback is the new enhancement introduced by the latest update. This intuitive feature dramatically speeds up video navigation. It does so by allowing your users to just touch a video twice to jump forward. 

This will help in the overall video playback experience. It promises to be as straightforward as possible in dealing with video content. This innovation is set to unravel online video spaces.

Feature Details

The 'DoubleTap to Quick-Seek' feature brings in to get to the desired part of the video. A quick double tap of the video screen skips over the video. It does so by a predefined interval of 10 seconds, either forward or backward.

This replaces the previous double-tap feature which was mainly used to zoom in and out of videos. Moreover, the feature provides users the more useful and frequently required control. 

Users can participate in the Public Preview program. It offers early access to experimental functionalities to access and use this new feature. Opting into this program allows people to test and feed this 'DoubleTap to Quick-Seek'. If it’s good enough, the chance to share the refinement with more audiences before release.

Benefits

Integration of the double tap quick seek feature has several notable advantages. The combination would improve the overall user experience and video navigation. It allows for faster forward such as YouTube, where these sorts of gestures are the norm. It is this consistency in user interface design. The transition is so intuitive for users already familiar with such a navigation method. 

On top of that, this function also contributes a great deal to the usability of reviewing recorded footage. This makes it faster and easier to find a specific part or time anywhere on the footage. There is no need to have to painfully scrub the timeline or hit any precise framing.

How to Access the Feature

Start using the Public Preview.

This may be the latest version.

Play any video.

Tap twice to seek.

Available on Android and iOS.

The Extract

Finally, in a nutshell, this is a good step forward for controlling video playback with the Google Home app. This is possible only by introducing double-tap quick seeks. 

This feature offers a better, more intuitive way to navigate through video content in the Google Home app. The feature potentially makes the user experience a lot better for the users who are watching the recorded footage. 

As you can imagine, having better streamlined navigation will surely be a better more seamless, and user experience.

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