We’re seeing this transparent status bar rolled out on several devices today with version 19.37.35 of YouTube for Android (14 + 15), but it’s not yet fully available.

YouTube’s ‘like’ button wasn’t broken, it was just hiding. YouTube fixed a bug that caused the thumbs-up ‘Like’ icon to disappear.

YouTube introduced, for example, a feature that lets creators add AI-generated video or image backgrounds to vertical videos and tools to help creators draft outlines for videos.