YouTube this week began rolling out the new Jump Ahead feature to all YouTube Premium users in the United States, according to a 9to5Google report. Jump Ahead, which has been tested for the past few months, allows viewers to skip to interesting parts of the video according to other users' viewing patterns.
If you remember YouTube introduced the graph of the most popular parts of the video since 2022 and this is the first time a special button is given to go directly to these parts. It's similar to the Skip Intro button used on Netflix with it being placed in the lower right corner of the video window.
Like all new features introduced by YouTube lately, Jump Ahead is also powered by an artificial intelligence (AI) system. As a content producer this feature may shorten video viewing time. As a user, it's an interesting feature that allows us to go to the interesting part without spending data watching the boring part.