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 forms of units. Most individuals subscribe to YouTube Premium to take away adverts 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 might be obtainable in additional locations.

YouTube Premium’s quicker playback speeds (in 0.5x increments from 1x to 4x velocity) are actually obtainable on Android, iOS and the net, after initially solely being obtainable within the cell YouTube app. The flexibility to have YouTube routinely 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 Leap Forward characteristic for skipping to “key moments” of a video is now additionally obtainable on good TVs and sport consoles.

When it comes to the music facet of the home, the massive change has to do with audio quality. Once you’re watching a music video, Google says you will now be capable of choose “Excessive” from the audio settings and hear at a 256kbps bitrate. This transformation applies to “Artwork Tracks” as effectively, 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 may entry it throughout the Android and iOS model of each YouTube Music and YouTube.

None of those updates change what the principle advantage of 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.