YouTube Music is lastly testing the long-requested playlist search function

YouTube Music seems to be quietly rolling out a long-requested function — the flexibility to go looking inside playlists. Customers have been asking for this function for years, and it now appears to be like like Google is lastly responding.

A Reddit consumer reported seeing a brand new “Discover in Playlist” choice within the YouTube Music iOS app. In keeping with the consumer, the function is on the market on model 8.45.3 of the app, and so they confirmed they’re primarily based in India. In addition they famous that whereas they’ll search inside playlists, they nonetheless can’t search by means of radios saved to their library.

Though it looks as if a easy function, one that ought to have been out there on an app like YouTube Music from day one, playlist search has been a significant ache level for customers for years. Till now, the one strategy to search inside playlists has been by utilizing browser extensions on desktop, leaving app customers with no built-in strategy to search their playlists.

That stated, the rollout of the brand new function appears extraordinarily restricted as of now. Android and iOS customers commented on the Reddit thread, saying they’ll’t see the “Discover in Playlist” choice simply but. We additionally checked the identical model of the YouTube Music app on iOS in India, and the playlist search choice isn’t displaying up for us. It’s potential that the function is at present in an A/B testing part, a standard method Google takes earlier than broadly releasing new options.

When and if the function is made out there extra broadly, it ought to present up while you faucet the three-dot menu subsequent to a playlist. It could be particularly helpful for YouTube Music customers who’ve huge playlists, permitting them to rapidly find particular tracks with out infinite scrolling.

For now, we’ll simply have to attend and watch if Google decides to roll out the function to everybody or check it extra broadly.