Search: sorting by upload date or view count now orders results correctly. Improved video playback layout on foldable and non-standard displays (iPhone Duo). Fixes and improvements.

Home Screen widget with videos from your Home feed; tap one to play it Drag to reorder Home page sections (#156) High-resolution thumbnails, accent color and grid column settings Watch history kept on the device, and watches reported to your YouTube history (#150) Fixes "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot" now switches to the standard player (milika/SmartTubeIOS#158) Removing videos from Watch Later works; Home's Watch Later list updates (#157) Dark appearance in the player's YouTube settings sheet (#144) Brightness/volume swipes only work at the screen edges (#148) Whole video card is clickable on macOS (#153) Widget and shared links open a new video even while one is playing Watch progress is saved correctly when looping or rewatching a video

New Home Screen widget with videos from your Home feed; tap one to play it Drag to reorder Home page sections (#156) High-resolution thumbnails, accent color and grid column settings Watch history kept on the device, and watches reported to your YouTube history (#150) Fixes "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot" now switches to the standard player (milika/SmartTubeIOS#158) Removing videos from Watch Later works; Home's Watch Later list updates (#157) Dark appearance in the player's YouTube settings sheet (#144) Brightness/volume swipes only work at the screen edges (#148) Whole video card is clickable on macOS (#153) Widget and shared links open a new video even while one is playing Watch progress is saved correctly when looping or rewatching a video

> Skip and previous/next buttons in the player, on-device watch history, a working Disable Liquid Glass toggle, an optional Settings PIN, an analytics opt-out, and tighter brightness/volume gestures. Also attempted fixes for iPad player controls and the dark-mode video menu.

multitude of fixes and stuff people asked :)

Brazilian Portuguese — full pt-BR localisation added; all 15 languages are now complete Audio fix — video no longer loses sound after leaving and returning to the app Pause fix — first pause no longer auto-resumes by itself Battery & heat — removed background polling loop that was warming the device unnecessarily Collab channels — co-author name now shows correctly in your subscriptions list

Fixed video resuming immediately after pausing Reduced background work while browsing — less battery use and fewer slowdowns on older devices

Fixed device getting hot after watching a few videos — removed background CPU work that was running continuously for every card on screen Fixed videos getting stuck and not advancing at the end of short clips (they were being misidentified as stalled) Performance improvements reducing background processing overhead

Fixed video player getting stuck and not auto-playing the next video Fixed accidental pausing when tapping to show player controls Fixed watch history not saving for signed-in users Fixed some subscribed channels failing to open Added Now Playing info and lock-screen playback controls Various Shorts stability fixes Restored the landscape lock button

Shorts: Fixed an issue where tapping to resume a paused video could play briefly then pause itself again. Shorts: More reliable swipe transitions between videos (occasional black screen on swipe fixed). Player: Fixed a rare crash that could occur after closing or minimizing the video player.

Video is centered with equal black space above and below Tapping center while paused resumes playback Native player controls (scrubber, volume, etc.) are now tappable when paused

New playback engine for smoother, more reliable video streaming Comments now available right from the player menu Mini-player keeps your video playing when minimized Fixed: speed control getting stuck on the wrong value Fixed: audio occasionally cutting out after unmuting General player stability and bug fixes

Parallel stream fetch — faster video start Muxed fallback plays instantly, upgrades to 1080p/720p in background Quality picker shows all resolutions after upgrade failure macOS native Sign In sheet Fix wrong video on iPad landscape Fix lock screen Now Playing (thumbnail + prev/next) Fix HTTP 403 routing to full retry Fix infinite spinner on retry exhaustion Fix stale stream guard bypass Fix members-only tiles in feeds Download → save to Photos fallback

BotGuard pot= token pipeline (WKWebView-based) AVC-only / "Prefer H.264" codec pin toggle Serbian & Croatian localizations HLS audio rendition proxying Fix: 60s SABR stream stall Fix: dubbed audio broken via WKWebView Fix: WKWebView cookies not forwarded to HLS proxy Fix: 8s loadTracks stall (rqh=1 guard) Fix: quality switch failed after muxed fallback Fix: stale WKWebView HLS URL Fix: audio tracks not loaded after WKWebView HLS

Bug Fixes Fix EXC_BAD_ACCESS crash in home feed parser Fix Shorts pagination, infinite loop, missing results Remove Quality / Don't Like from menus Fix watch history logging, audio pill wrapping, wrong video in Downloads Fix scroll indicators on Shorts rows Fix TV subscription depth limit Playback HLS: preserve CDN session across loads — no more stale-session 403s HLS: serial extraction, priority for user taps, pre-warm from feed cards Fix freeze/stall after quality change or fast-forward BotGuard / Auth Minted PO tokens for adaptive streams via BotGuardWebViewRunner SAPISID recovery from WKWebView cookies PO token caching with TTL Performance 360p fast-start → quality ramp for faster first frame Higher prefetch priority for next queue video HLS variant fetch off critical path Other Playlist shuffle mode Feed hide propagates to Search/Channel/Playlist views

Added BotGuard PO token pipeline (WKWebView + websafe fallback), "Prefer H.264" codec pinning toggle, and Serbian & Croatian localizations. Fixed: 60s stall on SABR/TVHTML5 streams (#204), dubbed audio broken via WKWebView HLS (#205), WKWebView cookies not forwarded to proxy (#207), 8s loadTracks stall with missing googlevideo cookies (#208), proxy silently skipped by rqh=1 guard (#209), quality switch broken after muxed fallback (#210), stale cached WKWebView HLS URL (#211), quality button hidden instead of disabled (#186), audio tracks not loaded after WKWebView HLS readyToPlay.

DASH adaptive quality switching with AVMutableComposition rebuild macOS (Mac Catalyst) support TV client attestation token for bot-detection bypass "Remove from Watch Later" action in context menu Stats for Nerds in player overflow menu Fixed: tvOS settings tab required double-click Fixed: tvOS description/comments panels couldn't be closed Fixed: tvOS quality preference reset to Auto on every launch Fixed: tvOS overflow menu low contrast Fixed: playlist auto-advance broken from Search results Fixed: HLS manifest cache TTL raised to 30 min; stale entry invalidation on 403

VPN/IP block — skip retry, show specific error banner (#110) First video on launch fails intermittently (#132, #122) No audio when quality set to Auto, or after quality change (#128, #126) Audio track picker hidden after quality switch (#124) Audio languages all showing "Original" (#130) Captions not remembered across videos (#131) Captions overlapping scrub bar in landscape (#129) Scrubbing gesture broken (#121) Controls auto-hide 50% longer in landscape (#125) Tap targets for play/pause and seek increased (#127) Downloads tab + local file playback (#99) iCloud sync for local data, opt-in (#98) Hide Shorts not filtering subscriptions feed (#107) Watch Later wrong video order (#106) Shorts infinite scroll Quality selection removed — Auto only

Fix Shorts cold launch (HTTP 400 → use postTV()) #96 Fix mini-player overlapping tab bar #95 Fix overflow menu height portrait #94 Fix Shorts chip empty on fresh load #93 Fix spinner stuck after playback #92 Fix Shorts row premature pagination #91 Long-press context menu on Short cards #90 Fix short detection false positives #89 Remove duplicate overflow menu items #88 Fix tvOS crash (missing env injection) 16 QPB bug fixes #72–87

- breaking crash on app open fix

Added Safari Web Extension — YouTube, Shorts, and Music links now open directly in SmartTube Fixed a crash affecting age-restricted and region-locked videos Fixed audio-only mode stalling on playback start Fixed the mini player close button occasionally restoring fullscreen unexpectedly Fixed audio track selection being lost after fallback or error recovery Fixed the more menu overflowing off-screen in landscape orientation Fixed the "Hide Shorts" setting not applying in Search, Library, and Channel views

- Audio cutting out when manually changing video resolution - Audio quality improved — spectral pitch algorithm matches official YouTube app - Duplicate video cards causing blank cells in Home and Subscriptions feeds - tvOS centre-zone double-tap and d-pad focus issues in player UI tests

Added Mini-player — keeps playback alive while browsing; tap to expand or dismiss Watch Later context menu — long-press any video card to queue it InnerTubeAPI split into focused extension files + new data models Fixed Player overlay pickers lost focus on re-open

PiP, local subscriptions/RSS, tvOS player, landscape playback, quality selection with toasts, and Now Playing integration.

Landscape video playback tvOS player with custom controls Scroll position preservation in Library Better playback error handling & retry Video grid layout improvements