Here are all the best keyboard shortcuts to get the most out of YouTube on your Windows PC and Mac. You can interact with YouTube quickly and in just a few clicks.
Keyboard shortcuts for YouTube
Do you often use YouTube to watch videos of any kind? Do you like to spend time on the social network and would like to know some tricks to use it to the fullest?
You are in the right place!
Below I show you more than 25 keyboard shortcuts , valid for Windows PC and Mac, which will allow you to interact much more comfortably, quickly and quickly with YouTube .
Just read all the combinations that I point out below and replicate them on your computer keyboard to perform any operation on YouTube in a much faster way.
Seeing is believing!
| Shortcuts | Descriptions |
| Spacebar | Pause / Play video (player focus required) |
| K key | Pause / Play video (doesn’t require focus) |
| ↑ (Arrow key up) | Turn up volume 5% |
| ↓ (Arrow key down) | Turn down volume 5% |
| M key | Mute / unmute volume |
| ← (Arrow key left) | Move backward 5 sec |
| → (Arrow key right) | Move forward 5 sec |
| L key | Move forward 10 sec |
| J key | Move backward 10 sec |
| 0 / Home key | Restart the video |
| End key | Skip to the end |
| Num keys 1,2,3 … 9 | Move playhead to the respective percentage, 10% -90% |
| F key | Enter or exit full screen |
| Esc key | Full screen exit |
| Ctrl + → | Move to next video (only in playlist) |
| Ctrl + ← | Move to previous video (only in playlist) |
| Tab key | Move forward in player control buttons |
| Shift + Tab | Move backward in player control buttons |
| Enter | Execute select player control button |
| C key | Turn on / off CC (closed captions) |
| + key | Increase CC font size when it’s turned on |
| – key | Decrease CC font size when it’s turned on |
| B key | Change CC background color |
| > key | Increase play speed |
| <key | Decrease play speed |
| Shift + P | Play previously played video |
| Shift + N | Play next video in recommendation / playlist |
| / key | Place text cursor in search field to start typing |
| Esc key | Focus away from search field if text cursor is there |
| , (paragraph) | Move backward per frame when video is paused |
| . (period) | Move forward per frame when video is paused |
