 And YouTube is giving its premium users some new exciting features. YouTube, the video playing app, already allows for background picture and picture play mode for its long videos. But now premium users on the Android app will be able to do the same thing for YouTube Shorts, the platform's short form constantly playing videos meant to compete with TikTok and Instagram Reels. Also on the way is smart downloads for Shorts when the app picks videos it thinks you will like and downloads them automatically for offline viewing.