YouTube Premium provides high-quality audio and 4x playback for iOS, Android and desktop

Google is expanding access to YouTube Premium options like quicker playback speeds and high-quality audio to extra kinds of units. Most individuals subscribe to YouTube Premium to take away advertisements from YouTube and entry to YouTube Music, however Google additionally consists of quite a lot of “power-user” options that give subscribers extra granular management over their viewing or listening expertise. Now these options can be accessible in additional locations.

YouTube Premium’s quicker playback speeds (in 0.5x increments from 1x to 4x velocity) at the moment are accessible on Android, iOS and the online, after initially solely being accessible within the cell YouTube app. The power to have YouTube robotically obtain Shorts to view offline or watch Shorts in a picture-in-picture window is now additionally accessible on each iOS and Android, after initially launching on Android. Google says Premium’s Soar Forward function for skipping to “key moments” of a video is now additionally accessible on good TVs and recreation consoles.

By way of the music aspect of the home, the large change has to do with audio quality. Once you’re watching a music video, Google says you may now have the ability to choose “Excessive” from the audio settings and pay attention at a 256kbps bitrate. This modification applies to “Artwork Tracks” as nicely, that are movies of songs accessible on the broader YouTube platform that do not have an official music video. The “Excessive” high quality possibility was initially solely accessible within the YouTube Music app, however now Google says you may entry it throughout the Android and iOS model of each YouTube Music and YouTube.

None of those updates change what the primary advantage of a $13.99-per-month YouTube Premium subscription is, after all, however for the value, it is good Google is making an attempt to unify the expertise throughout units.