YouTube Premium to Offer SharePlay and Enhanced 1080p Video on iPhone

[syklee26]

If you get one subscription service for contents, YouTube Premium is the one to get. No ad on videos + top notch music curation for a price of Apple Music.

If you don't like paying subscription fees, then don't even try any free trials of YouTube Premium. You won't be able to get off.

 

[matthew12]

I think you can save lots of money by downloading Adblocker. This one is really good. Skips all ads instantly.

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Doesn't work on mobile or TV's though. If you use YouTube primarily on desktop and only occasionally on mobile, adblock is fine. But as someone who lately watches videos on my TV or phone, YouTube Premium is great. Gives you "free" YouTube Music as well.

 

[dabrain13]

I thought app developers are not allowed to put iOS features behind a paywall? Or is there some loophole?

Me too...which makes the SharePlay thing surprising. Isn't this the whole reason they ended up having to make PiP available to all iOS users?

 

[Giant_enemy_crab]

What YouTube has done to “standard” 1080p is DISGUSTING. Just watch any movie trailer that gets uploaded in 1080p, it looks like 720p or worse because they’ve lowered the streaming bitrate so far. Shameful for them to charge extra for reasonable bitrates.

 

[gdmedia]

$11.99 a month? I pay $15.99 a month for an individual membership. A family membership would be $22.99.

 

[DaPizzaMan]

What?

Apple has a rule that disallows iOS features to be put behind a paywall. But I believe the workaround is that as long as they provide some other features with the paywalled (iOS) feature, then it's allowed for some reason.

 

[0924487]

The only reason I have YouTube Premium is to eliminate the ads. Totally worth every penny.

The other features are simply nice perks.

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GitHub - qnblackcat/uYouPlus: uYou+ is a modified version of uYou (made by @MiRO92) with additional features and mainly made for non jailbroken users!

uYou+ is a modified version of uYou (made by @MiRO92) with additional features and mainly made for non jailbroken users! - qnblackcat/uYouPlus

github.com

This is even better.

 

[ackmondual]

I think you can save lots of money by downloading Adblocker. This one is really good. Skips all ads instantly.

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Block YouTube ads in Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari, Android or iPhone.

Does that include Chrome for Chromebook? I hear content creators get more revenue from paid subs, vs. just the money from ads. FWIW, YouTube Premium is convenient... you pay one sub and it works across multiple devices you access YouTube.

I really don't like paying for YouTube Premium. I feel like the price can be lowered. $4.99 per month maybe?

I've met folks who get YouTube Premium not for the ad-free YouTube.. but b/c they wanted YouTube Music! Ad-free YouTube is merely a bonus.

FWIW, if you get the family plan, that includes up to 6 accounts for $23/mo. And I hear (unlike Netflix), they're fairly lax about everyone having to be "under the same roof".

 

[0924487]

Does anyone have an adblocker that works with YouTube on mobile Safari?

uBlock origin doesn’t have iOS support.

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GitHub - qnblackcat/uYouPlus: uYou+ is a modified version of uYou (made by @MiRO92) with additional features and mainly made for non jailbroken users!

uYou+ is a modified version of uYou (made by @MiRO92) with additional features and mainly made for non jailbroken users! - qnblackcat/uYouPlus

github.com

This is even better.

 

[CWallace]

It’s so strange they decided to paywall “higher bitrate 1080p” instead of 4K, which is higher quality.

There is far more 1080p content than there is 4K content and I expect the vast majority of videos people actually watch are in 1080p rather than 4K so there is actual value to customers to have a superior 1080p viewing experience than a baseline 4K experience so they would actually subscribe to Premium.

I don’t get it. So enhanced 1080p is better than 4k? What’s the point of offering 4k then?

Not sure this is true, but if it is, there is content that benefits from being in 4K that can be watched on a 4K television.

 

[DaPizzaMan]

https://sponsor.ajay.app

GitHub - qnblackcat/uYouPlus: uYou+ is a modified version of uYou (made by @MiRO92) with additional features and mainly made for non jailbroken users!

uYou+ is a modified version of uYou (made by @MiRO92) with additional features and mainly made for non jailbroken users! - qnblackcat/uYouPlus

github.com

This is even better.

THIS EXTENSION DOES NOT BLOCK NORMAL YOUTUBE ADS, ONLY SPONSORS INSIDE VIDEOS. Use Adguard along with this extension to block both types.

 

[cylack]

I subscribe to Youtube Premium because I listen to videos while I’m driving and the constant ads became unbearable. Just no ads makes this worthwhile. Also, I can have my maps app open and youtube in the background playing. Not sure if that is now availalbe to free users.

 

[ackmondual]

Honestly, YouTube Premium is the only streaming service I find value in day-after-day. YouTube creators put out so much quality content across such a wide array of subjects and interests. I find myself watching YouTube on my Apple TV more than Netflix, Disney+, Apple TV+, Prime, and HBO Max combined.

And as a bonus, I hear content creators get more revenue from YouTube Premium subs vs. just the ads from everyone else!

If I had to be stuck with just YouTube Premium as a ss (streaming service), I wouldn't mind. However, also having 1 of any of those other ss really does help round out the roster. One gripe against YT is they create their material to conform to YouTube's restrictions and algorithms. That has lead some content to go exclusively on other ss like Nebula, or "being gimped". Otherwise, I really dig just being able to fire up a new season of a TV show, ad-free, and on-demand (which you can do on YouTube as well, but in that case, you pay a la carte to purchase TV shows, or purchase/rent movies). Or, TV series from 5 to 20 years ago. I'm still relatively new to many of them (having used them for 3 to 12 months at most), so I still have a lot of content to go through. When that gets exhausted, we'll see which one we'd like to rotate to (if at all, barring if YouTube alone will be sufficient).

Last but not least, I was on YouTube Premium about a year ago, but I could swear that they doubled the commercials around that time!

 

[cocky jeremy]

The only reason I have YouTube Premium is to eliminate the ads. Totally worth every penny.

The other features are simply nice perks.

Yup. YouTube Premium is the very last subscription I'd give up. It pays for itself within 15 minutes.

 

[lazyrighteye]

Does anyone miss the old YouTube icon? 🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻🙋🏻‍♂️

Haha, not really. I mean, look at that 1950s TV set! I find it staggering that it was A) a concept that was actually presented and B) was actually approved. In 2007.

While skeuomorphism was a necessary means to an end - to train users ("ooh look - the Notes app looks like a legal notepad! Good thing it looks like that or I wouldn't now what a Notes app was supposed to offer") - I do think the nature of the iOS platform did/does warrant new visual language around familiar analogue things - like notepads. What a notepad can mean in iOS may not be the exact same as in the physical space. Thus, there is an opportunity for some iconography to reflect those potential deltas. Overall, I greatly prefer the post-Forestall efforts around visual language for icons in iOS. And yes there are misses. Always will be. Still... That YouTube TV icon... Look at that thing! 😂🤪😜

 

[clunkmess]

I really don't like paying for YouTube Premium. I feel like the price can be lowered. $4.99 per month maybe?

I rounded up a couple friends for the family plan and it comes out to 5 bucks each😀

 

[Martinpa]

How long before Apple reject the next YouTube app update? System feature like SharePlay can’t be put behind the paywall on iOS. This was the issue with Picture and Picture and instead of making it a Premium feature on iOS, they had to turn it on for all users since it was a system feature when it came out of beta.

Totally agree. I have YouTube Premium (mainly for no ads and more convenient offline viewing), but I still think OS features shouldn’t paywalled, and thought that Apple didn’t allow it anyway. Just because it’s YouTube shouldn’t stop Apple from enforcing this rule.

 

[Heelpir8]

$11.99 a month? I pay $15.99 a month for an individual membership.

It's $11.99 if you subscribe directly through the YouTube website. Google makes you pay the Apple Tax difference if you subscribe through the YouTube app.

 

[Eorlas]

Am I missing something? Do I have to pay for YouTube premium to watch 1080p on iPhone?

yes. your eyes. read again, and this time, every single word.

 

[Tevosn]

I think you can save lots of money by downloading Adblocker. This one is really good. Skips all ads instantly.

AdBlock

AdBlock is a user-supported browser extension that lets you surf the web ad-free.

getadblock.com

This. On iPhone/iPad I just use Safari and some adblockers. Works pretty good. I use mainly ublock and Adblock+.
For some reason I’m limited to 720p on iPhone but that is good enough for me.

 

[white7561]

Do we actually know how much better the bitrate is on the 1080p premium? Since the bitrate on YouTube is awful compared to twitch (H264 vs H264. Same res and fps) so yeah. Need to know if it's still inferior than Twitch or even Facebook Gaming for that matter (which allows up to about 10Mbps of bitrate actually as far as I can remember)

 

[szw-mapple fan]

I think you can save lots of money by downloading Adblocker. This one is really good. Skips all ads instantly.

AdBlock

AdBlock is a user-supported browser extension that lets you surf the web ad-free.

getadblock.com

This works well on desktop but on mobile the browser version of YouTube just doesn't offer a great experience.

 

[Miabifilms]

YouTube Premium continues to be the best money I spend every month. Love it so much.

 

[aylk]

I pay for it so I can watch YouTube without ads on Apple TV. Any new benefits for Apple TV users?

 

[AtomicDusk]

Whelp - I'm in my 30s and this reminds me that I'm an old. I've never share played, never got the point, sooo I guess I'm not the target demo for this "benefit" of YT Premium.