Google is rolling out a major redesign for the YouTube app on Android and iOS, but it isn’t going down smoothly with long-time users. As we noted when YouTube began overhauling its homepage with custom feeds, the platform has been aggressively restructuring navigation around short-form video (Shorts) and algorithmic exploration. The latest wave of changes, however, has also removed the dedicated Subscriptions tab from the bottom navigation bar after nearly a decade, exiling it to a header swipe gesture at the top of the interface, and users are really mad about it.
