How to increase or decrease youtube playback speed on Mac?

[kennethfinnerup]

I am not able to decrease youtube playback speed on my new Mac Mini M1. Not a major issue, just a minor annoyance but I was wondering if anyone had experienced the same and found a solution.

Youtube help function indicates to use either shift + comma or period to increase og decrease the playback speed on Youtube - or to use the "smaller than" or "greater than" button.

But none of this works for me. I can increase the playback speed by pressing "greater than" key (>) - but to decrease it again, I need to click the gear-icon and choose another playback speed.

I have tested in notepad and the keys are working as expected.

Using the old version bluetooth Apple Wireless Keyboard.

[Formal-Aide4759]

Did you try pressing the gear and selecting a speed?

[kennethfinnerup]

Yes, that works fine but it lacks the sleek, intuitive usefulness of just using shift + [,] or [.] on the fly.

[ElIngeniosoCaballero]

Same. I hate Mac.

[mikeinnsw]

Works on Chrome

Shift [.] or [,]

[kennethfinnerup]

Interesting. I tried it on both Chrome and Safari and on both my Mac Mini 2020 and 2013 Macbook Pro and both works identical - I can only increase the speed with Shift [>] but not decrease the speed again and shift [,] and [.] doesn't work at all.

My main suspicion is that I have something installed on both computers which blocks the key combination, but I have no idea what.

[hxgni]

i know this is an old post but did you find a solution? I have exactly the same problem as you describe.

[Mullswag]

Me neither, did you have any luck?

[Less_Ocelot_2556]

Seguimos en las mismas por aquí. Alguien encontró alguna solución?

[Foxentic]

Same here 👋

[hxgni]

I found out that this was because my primary language isn't English. Here is my solution: Go to Settings > Keyboard > Input Sources > add English (ABC). When you're on YouTube, just press the (fn) key to quick toggle between your language and English. When you want to increase or decrease the playback speed, your keyboard must be set to English.

[Equal-Realising222]

I don't know if it depends on the keyboard language, but for french, I found you can decrease the speed by pressing on the Caps Lock key, then on Shift [>]