YouTube is testing creator voice replies

The adjacent clip you remark connected a YouTube video, you could perceive its creator’s dependable respond to you. YouTube says it’s investigating out a diagnostic with a “small number” of creators that lets them grounds an audio reply to comments connected their videos.

YouTube says it hopes this experimentation “enables much meaningful relationships betwixt creators and their audiences.” YouTubers successful the trial radical tin usage it by tapping the dependable question icon erstwhile replying to a comment, tapping “record a dependable reply,” and past posting it arsenic normal. However, anyone other tin interact with these replies conscionable similar mean substance comments.

For now, creators successful the trial radical tin lone make dependable replies successful the iOS app, and lone connected their ain videos. Where you tin perceive the replies seems to beryllium limited, too; I didn’t person the enactment to perceive to the supra voice reply from YouTuber ThioJoe successful a web browser connected my Mac, but I could play it successful the YouTube app connected my iPhone 15 Pro and Pixel 6 phones.