YouTube

Here’s How to Get a Free Week of Service to YouTube TV After Last Week’s Outage

Kellen October 22, 2018

YouTube and YouTube TV had a rough October 16, where services were down for hours before being fully restored. The timing was extra awful for sports fans, as the 16th marked the beginning of the NBA season and also featured MLB league championship games....

YouTube TV Struggling Tonight! (Updated)

Kellen October 16, 2018

UPDATE: All good now, even the "Home" page on YouTube TV. Sorry we're so late to this (blame the margaritas), but YouTube and YouTube TV have been having problems tonight. Both were down for a while at around 6PM Pacific. Services are coming back up now,...

YouTube Shutting Down YouTube Gaming App Next March

Tim September 18, 2018

In March, 2019, the YouTube Gaming app is going into retirement. Don't be sad, though, as YouTube plans to focus its entire gaming effort into the regular YouTube app and web experience. According to YouTube, 200 million people across the globe access gaming...

YouTube Kids Updated With “Older” Version as Young Billy Nears the Hell That is Puberty

Tim September 13, 2018

Kids grow up. It's what they do. In a new update, YouTube is having the YouTube Kids app grow up right alongside your kid with the introduction of a new "Older" version inside of the app, aimed at kids age 8 to 12. Turned on from an existing Profile page, the...

YouTube Dark Mode on Android is Here!

Kellen September 5, 2018

Six months later, YouTube gets dark theme It's here. YouTube's dark mode on Android is here. For real this time. We were first told about YouTube for Android's dark mode back in March of this year, as a coming soon type of item. It's September, so you know, it...

YouTube Can Now Tell You Exactly How Much Time You Spend Watching Videos

Tim August 27, 2018

As part of Google's Digital Wellbeing initiative that was introduced at this year's Google I/O, YouTube is rolling out a function that allows users to view exactly how much time they've spent watching videos. Rolling out today and located via your account's...

YouTube Signature Devices Are Now a Thing, Plenty of Phones Already Labeled as One

Tim August 10, 2018

Yesterday at Samsung's Unpacked event, the Galaxy Note 9 was introduced as a YouTube Signature Device. That was the first time we have ever heard that term, but recently, YouTube fully explained what that means and we've learned it's not only Galaxy Note 9...

Yep, Tapping the YouTube Progress Bar is Broken, but a Fix is Coming

Kellen July 25, 2018

Over the past week, as a YouTube user, you probably noticed that skipping forward or backwards in a video doesn't work like it should. Typically, when you tap ahead or back in a video on the progress bar, it would jump to that spot. Well, that's been broken....