YouTube Music tests full-screen album art — feature not yet available to users

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YouTube Music is testing full-screen album art in the app’s Now Playing screen.

It appears to be a limited test right now, and isn’t available on any of our test devices.

YouTube Music is an excellent app for streaming music : it’s free (if you don’t mind the ads), and it’s bundled with YouTube Premium, so you get two things for the price of one. It’s also really good with recommendations and almost always gets the next track right. However, if there’s one thing some of us don’t like about the YouTube Music experience, it’s the Now Playing screen. Fortunately, it looks like Google is testing a change to improve its appearance.

Look, there’s nothing really wrong with YouTube Music’s Now Playing screen, but the tiny album art looks outdated. It’s a relatively minor gripe, but it’s glaringly obvious, especially now that apps like Apple Music have switched to full-screen album art and even animated album art on their Now Playing screens.