YouTube Music getting more obvious shuffle and repeat buttons

Abner Li | Jul 11 2025 - 11:49 am PT

While we wait for the bigger Now Playing redesign, YouTube Music is updating the shuffle and repeat buttons.

Previously, the shuffle and repeat buttons flanking the play controls would become a little bit bolder when active. In general, YouTube’s design language makes use of thin, outline-style icons. It wasn’t obvious in this case whether the two modes were active, with users sometimes needing to cycle through them to be sure.

Inactive state

YouTube Music still does that bolding, but there’s now a white dot underneath. It’s more obvious, while there’s no change to the song repeat (“1”) option. We’re seeing these new shuffle and repeat buttons as a server-side update with YouTube Music 8.26 on Android, but it’s not widely rolled out yet.

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Top comment by Omega192

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It’s more obvious, while there’s no change to the song repeat (1) option.We’re seeing these new shuffle and rewind buttons...

@Abner Li I'm a bit confused why the repeat button is being called the "rewind" button in the title and most of the content in the article aside from the first line above. But the next then calls it rewind again.

Just to double check, I hovered over the button on the YTM webapp and sure enough it says "repeat off" then "repeat all" and "repeat one". I've only ever heard rewind used for jumping backwards in the timeline of media, as in the opposite of "fast forward".

Maybe just a Friday slip of the mind but might want to correct that.

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Active state: Old vs. new

Meanwhile, a “Make a quick start radio” card is rolling out to the Home feed. YTM shows eight artists that you can select and then tap “Play now” to create. “More” in the top-right corner opens the existing Radio creator that also lets you pick songs and albums.

YouTube Music has also widely rolled out “Releases for you” when you scroll to the bottom of the album page on Android, iOS, and web.