YouTube

I have a big gripe with a relatively recent change, which is where if I want to change the quality settings of video playback, I have to go to settings, quality, CUSTOM, and then pick a quality setting. Previously, it was just settings, quality, and then one is selected. If NOTHING else, just make the broader (low, medium, high) options ACTUALLY adhere to the lowest, middlest, and highest quality possible. I'm tired of after clicking on every new video, manually selecting the highest quality. Ty

Need updates in auto mode. No matter under WiFi or 5G, if the video is only available up to 1080p, it never turns 1080p unless manually selecting it (the same on LG TV app). However, if the video is available in 4k, then the auto algorithm plays it correctly in 4k. So if 4k is working, there's nothing wrong with the internet that explains it choosing 360p rather than 1080p. (I have the "always play on the highest resolution" option on, but it has no effect).

Casting videos to my TV, I could add videos to my queue with the option to play immediately. Now I tap a video it plays automatically. After years of the option, it's hard to stop tapping a video forgetting it plays automatically. I have to hit the dots next to the video sometimes accidentally tapping the video interrupting the video I'm watching; to add to the queue. Please bring the feature back. Same issue as before, now the Queue videos are below my navigation (Home, back, recent apps).

Great app when it's not broken. Unfortunately, most of the time on mobile, it is. YouTube will launch, and force a short to play. This causes the GUI to screw up, and not show the tab that allows you to see your subscriptions or history. Another problem is whenever I try to comment on a video, it breaks my phone's keyboard. It won't let me type, and the keyboard won't dissapear, even when I close the app. This forces me to turn off my phone for 10 seconds before turning it back on. Fix the app.

UI for enjoying ones purchases is extremely unintuitive on mobile. Can't search most of my movies in the search bar, even though i paid for them. I have to go through 3 or 4 menus to find them. Even then you can't filter by name or release year or collection(ex: planet of the apes series). It's only sorted by date added. You'd think google would do better

It doesn't matter what type of video quality you choose in the settings. The app still changes it for you, like it's on the auto mode. And even if you manually change it to your preferred option, the app changes it to whatever quality it wants to force upon you as soon as the ads end . Why can't i just choose a quality and have it for all the videos I'm gonna watch? Why did you guys try to fix something that's not broken? I literally have to fiddle with the settings for every single video.

They needlessy changed the UI for fullscreen mode. For the entirety of the Youtube app's existence the exit/enter full-screen button was on the bottom right of the screen. But now it's on the top left. That is so pointless and anti-user friendly. I also can't how many times I accidentally clicked something when I was trying to tap to fastforward the video because of all the garbage you placed in the way of the screen. Nobody asked for these changes. Please change this back to the original format

Anytime I take a break from my video or movie to answer a text or something, the video resumes 5-30 minutes prior to where i paused. The app will also restart 80% of the time i accidentally click an ad and try to close it out. If you try watching a movie on youtube, you'll likely spoil a major plot-point by trying to find where you left off And of course, this NEVER happens with ads, only the actual content that users want to see. Terrible app, but unfortunately the only one with a monopoly

I never really had a problem with this app until now. I love watching certain ASMR. Being able to hear & watch them like a preview, without having to go into the video saved so much time. I can no longer watch and listen to a video w/o clicking on it & it's just made everything so much more difficult. Why take the option to see & hear a video & make sure it's what you want to watch? Im hoping it's fixed & I can change my review to 5 stars. For now it's not worth the time & trouble.

Impossible to discover music. Instead of showing related songs in similar genre it shoves shorts and random garbage. If I listen to songs, the only suggestions I want is more songs. It's ridiculous. And I pay for premium! I want to cancel. Shame there is no alternative. Used to be much better. Edit: and cannot skip to next! On premium! But somehow autoplay is always on. It's like it's designed to be infuriating.

On mobile devices, it seems that the playback speed when watching videos randomly changes. What I mean is, when I watch a video at 1.5x speed, for example, sometimes the playback speed resets to normal with no warning. This happens after watching an ad, double-tapping the screen to fast forward, or starting a new video. I don't get why it does this when we already have a button featured for the playback speed.

Mostly good. Features: -Consistent updates -they update/change with the times -easy to navigate, search and you can do nearly everything you can do in desktop (notable exception queuing videos, that's only if you pay) Occasionally there are issues: -Latest update has it so a short will auto play when the app is launched. Not a fan, especially as sometimes it doesn't load a short but it just goes black screen with buttons to comment/like but there's no channel info or video shown.

I've been using YouTube for years now and have never really had a problem. I use platinum mainly for the background play while I'm sleeping. I've noticed that playing Playlists doesn't allow you to shuffle the videos anymore or makes it hard to do so. I don't know if this is from me updating the app(I'm a mobile user mainly) or from the actual people who made the lists. It's a bit annoying but not app breaking.

Premium services are buggy lately. I've had 3 updates since it started having issues and it seems like they are not addressing the problem. When I minimize the screen, it crashes and I can't navigate or do anything. I have to constantly stop and restart. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling updates but that did not fix the issue. Please fix this! What am I paying extra for if these services are not working!?

Ads too long!!! I often use YouTube to listen to documentaries while I'm working. Often my hands are busy and I cannot stop to skip an ad that's 35 minutes long! This app has become useless like most things on the internet thanks to ever higher needs to monetize more and more and more and more. Wake up Google!! There is a limit to how much money you can squeeze out of people. When will it all end???

Lots of great upsides to this app. Works great and is straight forward. However it's hard to enjoy those upsides with the constant and lengthy ads. Most people dont want to pay a subscription fee only to get rid of ads, especially when the other benefits of the subscription are hardly ever used if at all. Would give at least a 4 star if it wasn't for the ads.

Love watching the youtubers I follow, but the ads combined with no skips makes this app unbearable. I can't watch on my TV cause it gives me 5 ads 58 second timer and no skips, just for a 20 minute video. So, I watch on my phone here, but even now the ads are 30 seconds each for 2 ads. Both of which are unskippable. Now I noticed I can no longer view when the skip will come up, and it's does a horrible fade from the video to the ad. They are trying too hard to be a streaming service.

I've had a subscription to this app for about 2 years now. On several occasions I was adding songs to my queue and I accidentally clicked on one of the songs and there goes all the work I've done. This has been a known issue the while time I've had my subscription because I saw YouTube respond to someone that had this issue almost like they're stupid for not adding the songs to a playlist instead and yet you still have a dismiss queue option which noone ever needs!

I don't know who is in the background messing up, but the app has become so glitchy. When I leave a like, it doesn't appear. Comments either don't show up, don't get editted, or don't delete. Sometimes I'll comment on two different videos and see both comments under ANOTHER completely different video. Also, MOST RECENTLY, videos have started playing in complete black-screen. I have to keep restarting the app to fix things. And all of this AFTER I signed up for premium. A real slap in the face.

As of late the app seems to actually be losing functionality for me. (This has been written as a mobile user.) Thumbnails won't load in the homepage for 10 seconds when I open the app. Commenting on videos is jank and it won't read any inputs from the keyboard for decades and sometimes the board doesn't go away, or stranger yet it does disappear but leaves a vacant spot on the screen where it should be. Videos don't frame properly one out seven or eight times. And things just disappear! Why!?