YouTube for Android TV

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Mezarc Buslon

The new update is problematic. First off, the menu on the left has vanished. Plus, I can't log on to it so I can't use YouTube Premium on it. I dislike ads! YouTube, please fix this.

Girdharilal Patel

Playback speed option is not showing up. Youtube please bring it back. Thanks

Sofien Dhouib

I let 1 star because of the genius idea of removing the playback speed control option from the android tv version.

A Google user

The Good: Works great on a Sony Bravia 2015 model, everything works as expected. Runs Android 7. The Bad: Plays maybe 30 seconds of any video on other TVs running Android 6 then locks up. Sometimes you can get it to work if you restart, but it's inconsistent. Going into the app and removing all updates back to factory delivered version of the app and it works just fine, well until it gets re-updated. This is true on multiple devices from multiple manufactures using multiple different processors. Very frustrating that Google can't get it together to run their own app on their own platform. It's really pretty inexcusable, especially since Amazon can manage to deliver a more consistent YouTube experience on a FireTV using Silk (or Firefox for that matter) than Google can with their own app on their own platform. Trying to reproduce the same scenario using Chrome on AndroidTV gets you an unnavigatable mess.What ever was done in some update somewhere made this a useless app on many devices. Again let me clarify, we are talking about an app that came preinstalled on these devices and worked perfectly well and then stopped working when it got updated to newer versions.

Sydney Alamy

Maybe this seems minor, but it's hard to overstate how distracting the animated thumbnails are, and I can't believe there's no option to disable them. Every single time I highlight a video while browsing, it starts animating away from the static thumbnail that caught my attention, and I immediately wonder whether or not I'm even highlighting the video that I intended anymore. Animated thumbnails provide no value at all and only result in a more distracted browsing experience. Let me turn it off.

A Google user

The "New" app is trash. Why did my subscriptions get moved all the way to the bottom of the screen? It now takes 7 clicks to get to the content I want instead of the 2 clicks it took before. There's no way to reorganize the left tray, which would fix that. No way to disable all of the trending, hot, etc garbage. Go back to the old layout please. 0/5

A Google user

With the latest update, YouTube Originals don't stream anymore on my Nvidia Shield TV. The Original videos (e.g. Cobra Kai, Sherwood) play for a few seconds with audio and blank screen, and then stops. Non-original regular YouTube videos play fine however. Clearing cache, clearing data, app reset, device reset -- nothing fixes the issue. Only way to fix the problem is to uninstall updates in the YouTube app, which is not what one should have to do ideally. Extremely disappointed! 👎👎👎

Low Ian

Very buggy and new updates only introduces more issues. Firstly, the auto settings always chooses a lower resolution. Have to constantly set to the highest resolution manually. (No issues running 4K/HDR on Netflix and Disney+) Secondly, it always recommends unwanted channels. The "do not recommended" channel option does not work. They still pop up again. Thirdly, is a major bug when trying to spam advertisement. Sometimes it tries to play an advertisement but there is only a blank screen. When trying to return to main menu or home, it hangs the TV with a fuzzy screen. Only remedy is to power off the TV. Not worth subscribing.

Kyran Ginns

I don’t mind youtube on android tv it works really well but please fix the ad problem every time a ad comes on and the ad finishes it skips it to the next video witch means. I have to go back to the homes screen the go to my history the click on the video that I was watching before. Please fix this issue now!!!!!!!!!!

Doug Dunfee

1.8 stars average as of this writing... woof... Came here to just poste about the frustration in simply going back to previous video (Shield). The politics over this UI must be insane. Needs better leadership? Separate the basics from the fancy and stop screwing up the basics...