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

Google is expanding access to YouTube Premium options like sooner playback speeds and high-quality audio to extra varieties of units. Most individuals subscribe to YouTube Premium to take away advertisements from YouTube and entry to YouTube Music, however Google additionally contains a wide range 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 sooner playback speeds (in 0.5x increments from 1x to 4x velocity) at the moment are obtainable on Android, iOS and the net, after initially solely being obtainable within the cellular YouTube app. The power to have YouTube mechanically 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 Soar Forward function for skipping to “key moments” of a video is now additionally obtainable on good TVs and sport consoles.

When it comes to the music aspect of the home, the massive change has to do with audio quality. While 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 alteration applies to “Artwork Tracks” as properly, that are movies of songs obtainable on the broader YouTube platform that do not have an official music video. The “Excessive” high quality possibility was initially solely obtainable within the YouTube Music app, however now Google says you possibly can 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 making an attempt to unify the expertise throughout units.