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YouTube is a major video platform owned by Google — and it has grown to be one of the most famous social media destinations on the web.

When it comes to Apple and iOS, YouTube has a storied history. When Apple first launched the iPhone and iPod touch, it infamously had a first-party YouTube viewing application which was deprecated after the launch of the App Store.

Now, YouTube is one of the most popular apps on the App Store, and we regularly cover news and updates. There’s also a YouTube app for Apple TV, and of course, there are always privacy conversations to had at the intersection of any Apple product and a Google service.

Read more about YouTube and the latest news around the video platform over at our sister site, 9to5Google.

YouTube starts testing native picture-in-picture feature in its iOS app

Avatar for Filipe Espósito Aug 27 2020 - 8:20 pm PT
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Picture-in-picture (or PiP) has been available for iPad users since iOS 9 and Apple has enabled it on iPhone this year with iOS 14. However, YouTube has never supported this feature, which allows users to watch videos while using other apps. This might change now as YouTube has started testing the native picture-in-picture feature in its iOS app.

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App users claim they’d pay up to $4/month for popular apps, including FaceTime

Avatar for Ben Lovejoy Aug 5 2019 - 7:23 am PT
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Users of 16 popular iOS and Android apps claim that they would be willing to pay a monthly subscription for popular apps if there was no longer a free version.

WhatsApp was the one most users would rather pay for than give up, while YouTube was the app for which they’d be willing to pay the highest subscription fee…


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Latest YouTube for iOS update reintroduces annoying Home indicator bug

Avatar for Peter Cao Feb 11 2019 - 6:17 pm PT
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Seemingly in conjunction with getting its enterprise certificates back, YouTube found time to update some of its major apps for the 2018 iPad Pros. Such apps included the YouTube app, which was updated to support the new iPads about a month ago, but had a weird bug where the home indicator would overlap the navigation buttons at the bottom of the app.


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Instagram optimized for iPhone XR and XS Max again, YouTube adds support for new iPad Pro displays

Avatar for Michael Potuck Jan 14 2019 - 6:56 am PT
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Instagram XS Max XR resolution

After originally rolling out support for the iPhone XS Max and XR displays back in October, Instagram broke the optimized resolutions with an update last month. Now, an update today has solved the issue, but also requires Instagram users to be running iOS 10. In related news, YouTube has released an update that now takes full advantage of the new iPad Pro displays.


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Analysts say YouTube TV is the television service Apple should have built

Avatar for Ben Lovejoy May 22 2018 - 7:05 am PT
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AllianceBernstein analysts have suggested that the on-demand streaming subscription service YouTube TV is the television service Apple should have built.

They point to how YouTube has persuaded many to become cord-cutters, using the service to replace their cable subscription – and they present an interesting theory about why Apple has made such little progress with its own TV plans …


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