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Easy YouTube upgrades the YouTube app on jailbroken devices with VLC-inspired gestures

Anthony Bouchard ∙ October 1, 2020

Not only is YouTube one of the most popular ways that iPhone and iPad users enjoy video consumption on the go, but the YouTube app also happens to be one of the top-downloaded apps from the App Store overall. Despite its popularity, however, the YouTube app certainly fosters wiggle room for improvement, and the jailbreak community has taken notice of this fact.

Meet Easy YouTube, a newly released and free jailbreak tweak by iOS developer miro92 that brings two of the VLC media player’s most popular in-frame gestures for adjusting the display brightness and volume levels to the official YouTube app.

iOS 14’s picture-in-picture doesn’t work with YouTube’s mobile site using Safari, unless you pay for Premium

Evan Selleck ∙ September 18, 2020

One of the new features in iOS 14 is built-in support for picture-in-picture. However, it's not working everywhere some people might like.

tvOS 14 doesn’t support 4K YouTube playback yet

Evan Selleck ∙ September 18, 2020

While YouTube has supported 4K videos for quite awhile now, the Apple TV wasn't quick to jump on the support bandwagon. But that technically changes with tvOS 14, which Apple launched earlier this week.

Check out these 9 new Apple TV features in tvOS 14

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated September 21, 2020

Apple yesterday released the tvOS 14 software update that brings new capabilities and feature enhancements to the company’s Apple TV HD and Apple TV 4K digital media players. Some of the big ones you’ve already heard about, such as an expanded Picture in Picture feature and multiuser support for Apple Arcade. With the media's attention focused on the headline-grabbing improvements in iOS 14, we thought you might also want to learn about everything new in tvOS 14 so here it goes...

Google is testing native picture-in-picture mode in YouTube for iPhone and iPad

Christian Zibreg ∙ August 28, 2020

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.

macOS Big Sur beta 4 enables support for 4K HDR playback of YouTube videos in Safari

Christian Zibreg ∙ August 5, 2020

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.

How to add YouTube and Vimeo videos in your Pages and Numbers documents

Sandy Writtenhouse ∙ Updated April 15, 2025

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.

Apple TV 4K will gain 4K YouTube support with tvOS 14 update

Cody Lee ∙ June 22, 2020

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.

You can now set a reminder for the WWDC 2020 livestream on YouTube

Christian Zibreg ∙ June 17, 2020

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.

YouTube Kids launches on Apple TV

Christian Zibreg ∙ May 27, 2020

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.

These tweaks can improve the YouTube & YouTube Music experiences on iOS

Anthony Bouchard ∙ April 18, 2020

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.

YouTube Music is rolling out an Explore tab to make discovering new music even easier

Evan Selleck ∙ April 14, 2020

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.