Why is it with AT&T iPhone 7 Plus you can NOT select a video quality when on LTE. It just says network decides. However on my Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus I can select the quality on LTE? Another hidden iPhone lock?
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It has nothing to do with StreamSaver. It's been off since the first day they announced it.
There's nothing like that. I can change quality of videos on my phone. Have you tried exactly the same video on both the devices ?
Also, that's an app feature. Nothing to do with the device itself.
Yes on LTE it's locked and will not let me change quality on the iOS, however on the Android it lets me set 1080p with no issues.
That could be a network limitation. Some of the features are configurable by the service providers. Have a word with AT&T.
Seems to be an ongoing iOS issue after doing some research.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/how-can-you-view-hd-youtube-on-lte.1449103/
https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/3l9drm/youtube_quality_selection_over_cellular_network/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/how-can-you-view-hd-youtube-on-lte.1449103/
https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/3l9drm/youtube_quality_selection_over_cellular_network/
Can you send me an example? Seeing I'm in the uk, I can try this out right away.
If you open the YouTube application on LTE and select a Video then click the 3 dots to top right to change quality it's blacked out and will not let you. This option however works on WiFi.
I mean can you provide a specific video that you know of the type of quality you are looking for. Not all videos are of HD quality.
Anyway, I tried it just now on a random video and it appears for me.
I see, in that case definitely looks like something to do with your network provider to make you use less data.
Again, its not iOS. Its your service provider, as you can see in the screenshot, i can change the quality of the videos.
Course if it wasn't uploaded at 1080p you can select all you want but can't get better than what the video was uploaded as. In the example 240p.
Indeed, that's why I asked the OP to give me a proper example but he said that it happens with any video. I find it hard to believe but then maybe the service provider is throttling the speed down so the YouTube app just knows what quality to play the video on rather than providing the options for lack of bandwidth.
I'll bite, how is Apple limiting this? As opposed to Google, who's app this is, limiting it?
I just tried changing the resolution on lte and then wifi. Interesting, on lte I could not change the resolution, while on wifi I could. Never noticed that before. I use Verizon and don't know if this is due to the Youtube app, iPhone or Verizon.
Can't be either the app or the phone as you can see on my previous post that I get the option to change over cellular network. So I'm putting it down to the network.
When on LTE or other cellphone networks,some carriers optimise resolution and frame rate to the possible connection speed. This feature has nothing to do with phone settings,it's done by carrier. If everybody was looking at high speed,high resolution video streams over the cellphone LTE networks,they would get overloaded.
These restrictions don't exist on Android. So why not restrict it to all?