MeTube 3.1.8 Lora

Live rings, a playful Customization page, zoom anywhere

📅 2026-10-27 · closes #46, #55, #73, #78, #79, #80, #81, #82, #83 and #86

✨ New

• See who is live at a glance. A channel streaming right now gets a glowing red ring around its picture: on video cards, in your Subscriptions strip, on the watch page and on the channel page, where a LIVE badge sits under it and a tap on the picture opens the stream (#73).
• Home chips made for you. Right after All, Home now shows chips for the channels you watch most, picked from your watch history. Tap one for that channel's latest videos; Back takes you to All again (#79).
• Videos as a list. Settings > Customization > Video layout shows videos as compact rows with a small thumbnail beside the title, so more fit on screen. It works on Home, Subscriptions, channels, playlists and search. Shorts stay as tiles (#82).
• Pinch to zoom, anywhere. Zoom into the video up to 5x on the small player, in Shorts and in fullscreen, and move around with two fingers. Each new video starts whole again (#55).
• Comments like on YouTube. Tap a comment to open its replies, double tap it to like it (#78).
• A liquid glass lens on the bottom bar. Pick a tab and a glass lens glides over to it while the bar wiggles. Turn it off under Settings > Customization > Tab switch animation (#46).
• Frosted player buttons are back, as a setting. Turn on Settings > Customization > Frosted player buttons and the buttons over a video and a short blur the picture under them again. It is off by default because it costs battery on slower phones (#80).
• High performance mode. Settings > General > High performance mode keeps the app at your screen's top refresh rate, 120 Hz on most newer phones, for the smoothest scrolling. Off by default.
• All subscriptions in one list. Hold All on the Subscriptions strip to see every channel you follow, A to Z.
• Reset the bar. Settings > Customization > Tabs has a button that puts the bar back to Home, Shorts, Search, Subs and You.

🛠️ Changed

• A playful Customization page. Theme, app icon, Home layout, video layout, thumbnails and playlists are now picture tiles you tap, and Interface size is a slider with a live preview. Everything sits in four groups: Look, Layout, Glass and motion, Tabs and menus.
• Frosted glass switches. Every switch in the app is a simple frosted glass toggle now.
• Tabs arrive out of frosted glass. Switching tabs, the new page clears in from a soft blur.
• Shorts open smoother. The Shorts player rises in from the bottom once the bar has settled, and going back is smoother too.
• Hold a short to see it clean. The buttons fade away while you hold, and stay away after you let go until you touch the screen again. For 2x speed, hold the top right corner instead.
• The bottom bar stays on channel pages, with the tab you came from still lit.
• Smaller buttons on the small player, so they cover less of the video. Fullscreen keeps the big ones.

🐛 Fixed

• Streams that just ended play again. A live stream that finished in the last few hours only showed Retry. It now plays from the start (#83).
• Back on a filtered Subscriptions feed goes to All your channels first, not to Home (#86).
• Bottom bar names line up. "Subscriptions" wrapped onto two lines; the bar now says "Subs" (#81).
• Home no longer opens a menu on a long press of its tab.
• Minimizing the player no longer jumps back and forth on some phones.

✅ Issues resolved

Issue	Asked for	In 3.1.8
#46	A liquid glass bottom bar with effect settings	A glass lens glides between tabs, with its own switch
#55	Zoom in the video player	Pinch to zoom up to 5x, everywhere
#73	A red ring on live channels	A glowing ring wherever the channel shows
#78	YouTube style comment taps	Tap for replies, double tap to like
#79	Personal Home chips	Chips for the channels you watch most
#80	Glass player buttons are gone	Frosted player buttons setting
#81	Bottom bar names out of line	"Subs" fits on one line
#82	Videos as a list	Video layout: Cards or List
#83	Recent live streams only show Retry	They play from the start
#86	Back from a channel goes Home	Back goes to All first