Some apps are purposely limited in terms of CarPlay availability, generally for the sake of safe driving. This includes video playback apps such as Netflix or YouTube.
Most people have the official YouTube app installed on their phone, which is why the new and free YTHoldForSpeed jailbreak tweak by iOS developer joshuaseltzer could come in handy for a lot of users.
YouTube Queue is coming to iPhone after launching on desktop years ago, with the feature currently available for testing to Premium subscribers on iOS and Android.
iOS developer PoomSmart is back again this week with another couple of YouTube app improvement jailbreak tweaks, carrying the names of YouTube X and YTUnShorts.
When using the YouTube app to watch videos from an iPhone, one control that’s obviously missing from the interface is a button to instantly mute or unmute the video’s audio.
Google is rolling out a new startup sound and opening animations that play when opening the app, similar to Netflix's famous "tudum" sound.
Google raised the price of its family YouTube Premium subscription. The privilege of ad-free watching, background playback and offline watching for you and up to five other people will now set you back an extra $5/month.
If you’re accustomed to the YouTube app defaulting to full-screen video playback when you turn your handset into landscape orientation, then I can only imagine your dismay when the YouTube app added the new behavior in which it displayed comments beside the video playback before going full-screen. I say this because I wasn’t too happy with it myself.
You might soon have to get a paid YouTube Premium subscription, which costs $12/month, just to watch videos in 4K resolution on your computer or tablet.
If you watch any ordinary video in the YouTube app, then a progress bar appears at the bottom of the video player to display your progress in the video in real time. For some reason, the same isn’t true about YouTube Shorts.
Depending on the type of iPhone you use, YouTube videos with a 2:1 aspect ratio may bleed slightly into the notch, causing an unsightly aesthetic to the video consumption experience. Upset with this, a Redditor took to /r/jailbreak to find a solution, and they surely found one.
Learn how to enjoy YouTube TV with surround sound on your Apple TV, what you need to enjoy multi-channel audio, what other devices are supported and more.