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 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 a wide range of “power-user” options that give subscribers extra granular management over their viewing or listening expertise. Now these options can be accessible in additional locations.

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

By way of the music facet of the home, the massive change has to do with audio quality. If 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 alteration applies to “Artwork Tracks” as effectively, that are movies of songs accessible on the broader YouTube platform that do not have an official music video. The “Excessive” high quality possibility was initially solely accessible 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 attempting to unify the expertise throughout units.