YouTubers Can Now Easily Correct Their Videos With This New Feature — Here’s What You Need To Know

It can be difficult to fix a fact or a statement in a YouTube video if you make a mistake. Although you can add a note to the video's description or pin a comment with the correction, most people are unlikely to notice.

Another method is by re-uploading the video after editing it, but the downside is that you'll lose all of your comments and engagement data.

But with YouTube's new feature, your audience will be able to easily notice the corrections that you have made.

How Does This New Feature Work?

According to The Verge, after a video has been uploaded, creators can add corrections that will appear as infocards in the top right-hand corner of the video at the proper timestamp using YouTube's "correction" feature. Viewers can then expand the correction notes in the video's description by clicking on the card.

This is how a video with corrections looks like:

What Are the Things You Can Edit in a Video?

According to YouTube, the following are the available video settings:

• Title - your video's title

• Description - the text that appears below your video

• Thumbnail - before they click on your video, viewers will see this image

• Playlist - create a playlist or add your video to one of your existing playlists

• Audience - you must tell YouTube whether your videos are intended for children in order to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)

• Age restriction - videos with age restrictions that may not be suitable for all audiences

• Paid promotion - make it clear to viewers and YouTube that your video is being promoted with a fee

• Automatic chapters - you may make your videos easier to watch by adding video chapter names and timestamps

• Tags - to help with search errors, you can edit descriptive keywords

• Language and caption certification - select the original video language and caption certification

• Recording date and location - enter the date the video was shot and the place where it was shot

• License and distribution - choose whether or not your video can be embedded on another website

• Shorts sampling - allow people to make Shorts with your video's audio

• Category - choose an appropriate category for your video

• Comments and ratings - select whether or not viewers are allowed to make comments on the video

• Visibility - choose your video's privacy settings to limit where it may be shown and who can watch it

• Subtitles and captions - to reach a wider audience, add subtitles and captions to your video

• End screen - add visual elements to the end of your video

• Cards - include interactive elements in your video

Users Can Use a YouTube Feature To Find Reliable Health Information

Aside from the "correction" feature, the video streaming platform also launched another new feature that will assist users in the U.K. in finding reliable health information online.

Health source information panels will be presented to a video that has been certified as being from an authorized source. Garth Graham, the head of YouTube Health, revealed at a press conference that "only health organizations with government accountability" are currently qualified to have their videos recognized with this new feature.

To learn more, you can read the report here.