You may like to watch YouTube videos as you fall asleep, but if you do you’ve certainly noticed a huge glaring omission in the service’s mobile apps. There is absolutely no way to make YouTube stop playing after a set time – there’s no sleep timer.
That’s set to change soon. According to a teardown of the most recent version of the YouTube app for Android, a sleep timer is now finally in development, as evidenced by the strings in the screenshot below.
As you’d expect, this will allow playback to stop after a specified period of time. If you haven’t actually managed to fall asleep…
