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 varieties of gadgets. 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 might be out there in additional locations.

YouTube Premium’s quicker playback speeds (in 0.5x increments from 1x to 4x velocity) at the moment are out there on Android, iOS and the net, after initially solely being out there 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 out there on each iOS and Android, after initially launching on Android. Google says Premium’s Leap Forward function for skipping to “key moments” of a video is now additionally out there on good TVs and sport consoles.

By way of the music aspect of the home, the massive change has to do with audio quality. Whenever 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 effectively, that are movies of songs out there on the broader YouTube platform that do not have an official music video. The “Excessive” high quality choice was initially solely out there 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 advantage of a $13.99-per-month YouTube Premium subscription is, after all, however for the worth, it is good Google is attempting to unify the expertise throughout gadgets.