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Remove Horizontal Scrolling and Bring Back Vertical in YouTube

In this guide, we will show you a nifty workaround through which you could remove horizontal scrolling and bring back vertical scrolling on YouTube. There are a few Google products that undergo rigorous A/B testing from time to time. And among them, its video streaming service probably occupies the top position. More often than not, the changes being implemented are the ones that no one had asked for in the first place.

Bring Back Vertical scrolling in YouTube

And to make the matter worse, they don’t even provide an option to revert or disable the change. And the best part? In most cases, they tend to implement these changes directly on the stable build, thereby affecting a major proportion of their user base. And now, there has been another UI rollout that unfortunately checkmarks all the above-listed requirements. This time around, YouTube has replaced horizontal scrolling with vertical in the playlist section.

Bring Back Vertical scrolling in YouTube

So while the rest of the app still follows the vertical scrolling, for some reason, it decided to disjoint the playlist section by offering it horizontal style scrolling. Moroever, some users have also said that horizontal scrolling takes more time and effort when compared with its vertical counterpart. With that said, there does exist a nifty workaround that should help you revert this change. So without further ado, let’s check it out.

How to Remove Horizontal Scrolling and Bring Back Vertical on YouTube

As of now, the only workaround that will help you get this job done involves downgrading YouTube to its earlier version when this change wasn’t introduced. So grab hold of an older version of YouTube [preferably a couple of months old] and then refer to our below-linked guide [refer to the third method: Using ADB Commands and -d Parameter in that guide]. or you could also refer to the aforementioned linked video.

How to Downgrade a System/User App on Android [Video]

That’s it. These were the steps to remove horizontal scrolling and bring back vertical scrolling on YouTube. If you have any queries concerning the aforementioned steps, do let us know in the comments. We will get back to you with a solution at the earliest.


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