Today's changes are all in the Heart Photos viewer, and most of them are for your phone. Here is what is new and how to try each one.
Tap near the edge for the next photo
Open any photo on your phone and tap once near the right edge of the big image to go to the next photo, or near the left edge to go back. The outer quarter of the image on each side does this, so you do not need to aim. A quick double tap still zooms in, even at the edge, because Heart Photos waits a moment to see whether a second tap is coming before it moves on.
A tap in the middle half does something else. On a video, an animation or an Infinite zoom, it shows the controls if they are hidden and hides them if they are up. The buttons themselves keep their own jobs, so Play plays and pauses.
Swipes that follow the thumbnails
Turn your phone sideways and the row of thumbnails runs down the left side of the screen. Swiping up now takes you to the next photo and swiping down takes you back, the same direction the thumbnails go. Held upright, with the thumbnails along the top, swiping works as it did before, and swiping left moves you on either way you hold the phone.
A video's controls along the bottom
On a phone, a video's buttons now sit along the bottom of the image, as they do on a computer, and they fade away about a second after your last touch once the video is playing. Tap the middle of the video to bring them back.
Held upright, YouTube's logo shrinks to its red button so that all the buttons fit on one line, with the seek bar on its own line just above them. That is where YouTube's own player puts it: between the video and its buttons.
The same layout on a computer
The seek bar moved on computers too. When a window is too narrow for the seek bar to fit beside the buttons, it now sits above them, between the video and the controls, rather than below. When the buttons take two lines, Play, the volume and the time line up on the left and the rest on the right, instead of everything gathered in the middle.
And if you like pressing B to keep the button bar on screen, it now keeps the video's controls up as well. Press B again and both fade out together.
Try it
Open Heart Photos on your phone, pick a photo and tap near the edge to step through the gallery, then turn the phone sideways and swipe up. Your own photos open in the same viewer, so sign in to He.art, upload a few and give it a try with them.