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 adverts 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 will probably be obtainable in additional locations.

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

By way of the music aspect of the home, the large change has to do with audio quality. Whenever you’re watching a music video, Google says you may now be capable 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 obtainable on the broader YouTube platform that do not have an official music video. The “Excessive” high quality choice was initially solely obtainable 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 good thing about a $13.99-per-month YouTube Premium subscription is, in fact, however for the worth, it is good Google is attempting to unify the expertise throughout units.