Key Facts

• YouTube Music's current design displays artwork between the audio/video switcher and song title with rounded corners, but the new test design presents cover art that takes up the entire screen.
• The new fullscreen cover art design crops the artwork significantly, transforming it from a square shape to a rectangle that fills the screen, including the status and system navigation bars.
• When watching music videos with the new design, the fullscreen cover art also applies, reflecting the growing comfort with portrait-oriented, Shorts-like video content.
• The new design makes the background of the pill-shaped buttons in the actions carousel transparent and drops the artwork-based color theming for the Now Playing screen.
• The fullscreen cover art redesign is still being tested and has not been widely rolled out to all users yet.