YouTube's mobile app's had picture-in-picture (PiP) mode for some time now, but it only works within the app. As soon as you switch apps or land on the Home screen, the video doesn't continue playing because Google wants to serve you pre and mid-roll ads through the app. That could change soon as the search company is now testing an iOS-friendly PiP mode.
iOS 14, iPadOS 14, tvOS 14 and macOS Big Sur will let you play YouTube videos in 4K resolution and HDR color on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple TV and Mac. While this feature has been present in earlier betas of iOS, iPadOS and tvOS 14, yesterday's release of Big Sur beta 4 has brought the ability to play 4K HDR YouTube videos to Safari on Mac.
Learn how to add a YouTube or Vimeo video to your Pages or Numbers projects on an iPhone, iPad, and Mac to boost your documents and spreadsheets with media.
One of the more notable pain points with the Apple TV 4K will be addressed with the upcoming tvOS 14 update. Although it wasn't mentioned during today's keynote (unless I missed it), Apple says on their preview page for the update that 4K support is finally coming to the YouTube app.
Apple yesterday published the Worldwide Developers Conference hub on YouTube, and you can elect to be reminded via a notification when the virtual keynote is about to be live-streamed.
Google's YouTube Kids app is now available for Apple TV in the tvOS App Store more than four years since the software made its debut on the iPhone and iPad.
Both YouTube and YouTube Music are among some of the most popular entertainment apps available for the iOS platform, but that fact alone doesn’t mean that the services themselves are flawless. Many users share similar gripes when it comes to using these apps, whether it’s too many ads or lack of user configuration.
Fortunately, there are add-ons that can augment the user experience in these apps, and a newly released set of free jailbreak tweaks dubbed YouTube Music Reborn and YouTube Reborn by iOS developer SarahH12099 are absolutely worth checking out if you align yourself with either of the aforementioned complaint cases.
Being able to find and listen to the music you already know and love is an important aspect of streaming services, but so is discoverability of new tracks and artists you might like. And YouTube Music is adding a new tab to help with that.
TikTok was super popular even before lockdowns and quarantines went into effect across the globe due to the global coronavirus pandemic. And now it sounds like YouTube is ready to take on the short video sharing service.
Streaming is wildly popular, with services like Twitch and Microsoft's Mixer housing a variety of talent across genres. And now one of the more popular pieces of streaming software is finally coming to Mac.
Just a day after Apple brought the real-time Apple Music lyrics feature from iOS to macOS via the macOS Catalina 10.15.4 update, which released yesterday, Google has now added a similar lyrics feature of its own to its official YouTube Music app for iPhone and iPad.
Major video-streaming platforms like Netflix, Google-owned YouTube and Amazon's Prime Video have reduced streaming quality in the European Union to avoid straining the Internet as millions of employees switch to teleworking amid the coronavirus pandemic.