Your computer and programs running on your computer are not the only places keyboard shortcuts can be used. Many online services like YouTube also offer keyboard shortcuts. Below is a listing of keys you can use on your keyboard to control YouTube videos.
The YouTube video and window must be active. If these keys are not working, click the video to make sure it is selected. Switching between windows, changing tabs in your browser, or performing other actions like making a comment unselects the video.
Play and pause a video
Press the spacebar or the K key on your keyboard to play and pause a video.
Holding down either of these keys also plays the video in slow motion.
Jump to start of a video
Pressing the 0 (zero) key on your keyboard will jump to the beginning of a video. The Home key also works for jumping to the start of a video.
Jump to the end of a video or go to the next video
Pressing the End key on your keyboard goes to the end of the video. If you are watching a playlist, it goes to the next video in the playlist.
Skip or jump in the video
Fast forward or rewind
If you want to fast forward or rewind in increments of five seconds, press the left or right arrow keys. If you need to jump more than five seconds, press the J key to rewind ten seconds or press the L key to fast forward 10 seconds.
Skip to video sections
Pressing the number keys from 1 to 9 seeks (jumps) to that percentage of the video. In other words, 1 jumps to 10%, 2 jumps to 20%, 3 jumps to 30%, etc.
Change video playback speed
To decrease the playback speed of a video, hold down the Shift and press the , (comma) key.
To increase the playback speed of a video, hold down the Shift and press the . (period) key.
Switch the video to full-screen or theater mode
Pressing the F key switches between full-screen and normal mode.
Pressing Esc also exits full-screen mode.
Pressing the T key switches between theater mode and normal mode.
Turn on or off closed captions and subtitles
If a video has closed captions or subtitles, you can turn them on by pressing the C key. Pressing C a second time turns them off again.
Turn up and down the volume
When in full-screen mode, pressing the up or down arrow keys turns up and down the volume of the video. If you are turning down the volume and continue to hold the down arrow key, it will eventually mute the volume.
Pressing M on the keyboard also mutes and unmutes the volume.
YouTube Lean Back
Finally, from our YouTube top 10 tricks, YouTube also has a feature called YouTube Lean Back that allows you to navigate YouTube without using a mouse.
Has anyone noticed recently that in iPad iOS during safari video playback you can no longer use the double tap to skip forward 10 seconds similar to YouTube?
have they taken it away? Or is it a bug
i not hate how awful and clumsy the skip is being done in ios13.1.2
iPad Pro 12.9-inch, 2nd Gen, Wi-Fi
Posted on Oct 4, 2019 1:45 PM
I had the same problem and I was frustrated as well. If you go to Safari on settings and scroll down to settings for websites, by disabling “request desktop websites” it will reload pages in “iPad” format allowing you to skip videos as before. Hope it helps!
Posted on Oct 21, 2019 4:13 AM
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Brilliant. That solved it. Much appreciated my friend. Cheers
Oct 21, 2019 1:01 PM
Does anyone have any other ideas about how to solve this? I updated to iOS 13.2 on my iPad yesterday, and now I cannot double tap to skip forward on any Safari videos. I also would have to manually scrub, which is incredibly inefficient.
Nov 7, 2019 1:55 PM
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I suggest that you reach out to YouTube’s support for assistance.
Oct 4, 2019 1:54 PM
I think you misunderstand me. In YouTube the double tap skip feature works fine. But when playing another videos through safari you now can’t do the double tap to skip thing. It’s Super annoying.
Oct 4, 2019 1:58 PM
Thank you for the clarification. This was never a feature of Safari’s native video player so videos played outside of
YouTube do not inherit the double tap feature.
Oct 4, 2019 2:00 PM
zmclearan that’s not true. You could double tap any video in safari and it would skip 10 seconds. This feature started in iOS 12. Not with iOS 13 it’s gone. The question is how do we turn it back on, or is it’s elimination intentional to force people to hate using Safari. There must be someone who knows the answer.
Oct 17, 2019 9:26 AM
I had the same problem and I was frustrated as well. If you go to Safari on settings and scroll down to settings for websites, by disabling “request desktop websites” it will reload pages in “iPad” format allowing you to skip videos as before. Hope it helps!
