YouTube users can't see video titles
15 posts across 2 communities in the last 30 days; 93% from r/youtube.
“I fucking hate the new ui on the YouTube app . Needs to be fixed immediately ☠️🍋 [re: new shorts description ui?]”
“It's also broken for you? [re: YouTube game title category is bugged, doesn't show game titles?]”
“Now i cant even see the exact view count of a video anymore I swear if YouTube makes another dumbass UI change, i'm deadass burning my entire school down”
Several users are expressing frustration because they cannot view the titles of YouTube videos. This issue appears to be a glitch, with some experiencing it intermittently since July and others encountering it recently. Users find this change disruptive and confusing.
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“I fucking hate the new ui on the YouTube app . Needs to be fixed immediately ☠️🍋 [re: new shorts description ui?]”
What just happened? submitted by /u/CourageLost1896 [link] [comments]
“It's also broken for you? [re: YouTube game title category is bugged, doesn't show game titles?]”
“end, they break this feature every few updates it seems [re: YouTube game title category is bugged, doesn't show game titles?]”
“Now i cant even see the exact view count of a video anymore I swear if YouTube makes another dumbass UI change, i'm deadass burning my entire school down submitted by /u/MrOpisReesePuffs [link] [comments]”
“Yeah all my plugins and UI scripts are semi-broken with this. Youtube Redux is badly broken on this Video player UI. Control Panel for Youtube doesn't really work either. Tried a highly-rated Tampermonkey script and that was hilariously broken. The massive changes to the sidebar will require serious updating for plugins & scripts to work properly again...”
“The new YouTube UI is UGLY. I felt like I was on the wrong page or something, why is it set up like a playlist? Half of the videos on my feed don’t even show the full title now. submitted by /u/Arm-Deep [link] [comments]”
“Bruh, I’m genuinely losing my mind with YouTube's new web UI over the past few days. I tried searching for a way to revert to the old layout, but almost no one seems to be talking about this issue or how to fix it. I don’t get why when I log out of my YouTube account, the clean, familiar old layout automatically comes back, but the moment I log back in, it turns into this absolute damn mess again. I'm not sure if it's just me or if others are facing this too, but I straight up can”
“even watching videos it’s broke wtf is this??? also i’m on light mode but the player is dark mode 🤣🤣 this is laughably bad man submitted by /u/idonthavebandz [link] [comments]”
“they literally removed the ability to see the upload date and view count on shorts..”
“We cant even see how long the videos are now? submitted by /u/Exotic_Attention5604 [link] [comments]”
“Seeing this new ui but it’s missing tabbar titles submitted by /u/iPrabin [link] [comments]”
“This is a big problem! I even set up the automatic screen turn-off on my iPhone. Is it just me, or do you guys have this same issue? submitted by /u/Ulster327770 [link] [comments]”
“https://youtu.be/0zjHpqYjoec?is=PM8djIf-OI6lyVYU idk if it’s my phone or if it needs an update but It’s just this video where nothing is showing, it’s almost like the guy who uploaded it didn’t want to share title, likes, comments, nothing… submitted by /u/Advicedude101 [link] [comments]”
“Not sure how you can see all the UI elements shoved to a side and think it was done on purpose. It's a bug https://youtube.com/shorts/itN4buoFvYA”
“You can't even see full title names now. submitted by /u/Blackjack282 [link] [comments]”
“youtube made the user experience shittier? hmm that's not like them. I gUeSs We ShOuLd pAy FoR pRemIuM. So WoRtH It!”
“They need to just give the UI designers something else to fucking design. Youtube is completely fine, or was anyway, go work on something else and stop fucking things up.”
Is this a bug? submitted by /u/Rusty_Saw [link] [comments]
“Does anyone else's YouTube do this from time to time? Ngl it feels like the old ui wants to come back submitted by /u/GlitchTzy1 [link] [comments]”
“I feel like ts only make saving videos more difficult and i dont like it. Imo 🥲 submitted by /u/Clockey_ [link] [comments]”
“Genuinely who thought removing titles was a good idea, I can't find shit when I search submitted by /u/britshitrailposting [link] [comments]”
“Funny you also mentioned titles though, I've had times where I open the app and only thumbnails show up without the titles (even in search results) YouTube is getting glitchy...”
“You have to click on the video and then click on the title again to actually see the whole title. Who tf designed such a shitty UI where you have to click twice just to see the full title. How am I suppose to decide which video to watch without reading the full title?? submitted by /u/bapudon_1 [link] [comments]”
“Respectfully wtf is this? How can you be this big and make stupid mistakes like this? submitted by /u/_aqibmalik [link] [comments]”
“Get used to it, youtube loves adding random shitty ui and tests them on only some people and then removes them. Happens to me every other tuesday”
“Does anybody else have this bug where you can see what appears to be the filename that the yter used as the videotitle instead of the original title. I Tested this with 2 Accounts, and the difference seems to be the auto translation feature, because the account where this problem is occuring is set to english as primary language and the other is still in the standard language for where im living (germany) submitted by /u/Eierseggs [link] [comments]”
“All actions gone, and includes three dots are gone. This is worst feature ever seen, How could you? This is a disgrace. submitted by /u/GullibleFun6485 [link] [comments]”
“OMG WHY DO THEY KEEP CHANGING THE UI???? IT'S ABSOLUTELY WORSE THAN BEFORE! WHERE IS THE CONTROLS?? submitted by /u/Darkzww1 [link] [comments]”
“Why tf can't they go 1 second without shitting the UI. Just leave it TF ALONE!! submitted by /u/Far-Part8517 [link] [comments]”
“FYM THEY'RE REMOVING TITLES FROM THE HOME PAGE NOW?? WHO TF IS RUNNING THIS SHITSHOW I genuinely can't even fathom a human making that decision submitted by /u/itspronouncedbolonya [link] [comments]”
“I have this weird bug where the titles of vids are not shown how can I fix that submitted by /u/Lilanit77 [link] [comments]”
“not sure if it's a bug or a new YouTube thing, but I see no video titles in most of the app 🤔 submitted by /u/Few_Wrongdoer_1372 [link] [comments]”
“randomly some of repzilla's videos have these strange titles and descriptions? what is this submitted by /u/iimwithstupid [link] [comments]”
Whyyy.... It looks ugly submitted by /u/ClinicalyInSane [link] [comments]
“Where the hell is title & description submitted by /u/dawg_on_meta [link] [comments]”
“Idk why is there a glitch idk why is there black screen but plays only audio submitted by /u/Longjumping_Limit512 [link] [comments]”
“Can they not f n fix this on the app. Jfc submitted by /u/tbrizendine [link] [comments]”
“This just suddenly happened while I was in the middle of watching a video, is there anything I can do to fix this? submitted by /u/OrganizationShoddy37 [link] [comments]”
“I got this bug on my launch s25. Honestly the YouTube apps keeps having more bugs as the days go by, broken media player, broken speed changing, no titles, no veiws etc.”
They seem to be A/B testing replacing titles with AI overviews
“been just scrolling yt shorts and only this short i get this special UI lol, some mark rober stuff or bs? submitted by /u/ninjahattorim5 [link] [comments]”
“Almost 9 examples, all happening since july TO CLARIFY: i do not have this setup or anything, its just occasionally glitching. submitted by /u/thatguy1000000000 [link] [comments]”