YouTube Ratings and Reviews

This is my favorite app. I have used it longer than any other and the easy navigation, and ability to customize playlist order is much appreciated. [Details that I vote to be refined] The small window of the current playing window has gotten larger. The current video strip at the bottom of the screen was perfect, not obtrusive at all; I wish the larger box would go away. When a video is on loop that is in a playlist, the suggested videos pop up every time the video restarts, it would be great if the visuals of the video stays in tact on repeat. A loop button on the screen without having to click on settings would be awesome. Some videos have been starting with loop toggled on but dont actually stay on repeat. It seems like the there was effort made to track which videos are usually put one repeat and to have it play this way once the video is played, but it has to actually work. PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTION IS TOTALLY WORTH IT! Blur out anyone complaining about ads!🙄 This is one of the best consistent apps on market. Thank you!

If you’re gonna force people to buy your premium make it affordable for everyone. Having 8 ads before, in the middle of, and after a video is beyond annoying. And the next button feature doesn’t need to exist. The fact that you added it proves you’re putting too many ads in your forced as segments. People who can’t afford it use ad blockers cause it’s significantly cheaper. Stop with the ad overflow and people will probably flock to this app more, you’re being outclassed by every other streaming platform and it’s mainly cause yall don’t make your ad count and ad times reasonable. 5+ ads, each like 30+ seconds in length, AND an inability to skip until it’s the last ad? Like really? And work on banning click bait ads there’s way too many of those. I enjoy YT but honestly it’s becoming unbearable to be on cause unless it’s mobile phone you’re BOMBARDED with ad after ad before you can watch a two minute video the only way it makes sense is when you’re watching a 5+ hour video, and the ad spam lets you have a certain amount of time (like 15-30 mins) without them. Blocking someone from viewing cause you guys make viewing an unreasonable pain is not fair to the people who can’t afford your over priced premium. If people are having to use ad blockers it should be a hint y’all need to make changes. So take that hint and for once make a change everyone will love

What is with all these AI p*rn ads and chatroom p*rn ads? They are constant and I am not a conservative guy at all but it’s weird. But the main problem is even if I block the ads, they still come. I have blocked the ad for that tower defense mobile game at least 15 times and it continues to keep coming back. So with that being a silly mobile game, can you imagine how frustrating it is when I block an ad of a girl who looks way to young doing something promiscuous and provocative for some random weirdo app that probably just gives you viruses? I mean if it is real you should probably take action instead of putting energy in making sure content creators aren’t saying specific words or talking about specific topics.

There is a real problem here if a channel is shadow banned or demonetized because it’s a video about Israel or they say crude things on a comedy show, but underaged girls are basically shown doing p*rn on these ads.

Nonetheless, why is there even an option to block ads if you aren’t blocking these ads? Also, I understand I’m not sure how advertising works because some channels have ads for mobile games and square space and other channels have ads for belts or vpns or something actually useful. But these brainrot ads are crazy

I’ve used the YT app on both my iPhone and iPad for years and I didn’t start noticing a decline in quality between devices until this year. Removing the decline button and streamlining the UI was a mistake. Algorithm is worse too; I need to search for creators I like instead of being recommended similar videos. Despite notifications being on, I’m not notified half the time a creator I follow posts something. Seems like YT is shadow banning certain content they disagree with. Also, the app on iPad has so many more bugs than it used to in my experience. The amount of times the app freezes when I tap to open a video, have unsynced audio, or the drag down feature to swipe out of a video not working is ridiculous. The saved playlist pop up is so wacky on iPad, if you have multiple playlists saved like I do, it takes up so much space on the screen and unlike on desktop and iPhone YT, there’s no “done” button at the bottom to take you out of the dialogue box—you need to tap somewhere randomly on the screen to close the window. I’m probably using YT on my iPad 10-15 hours per week and I need to restart the app 2-3 times or more every week to fix a bug. I simply don’t encounter these bugs on the YT app on my phone nor on desktop.

I’m usually in favour of making continuous improvements to apps, but some of the recent changes just degrade the experience and make the app harder to use. Two that stand out are the recent change in the location of the “X” button. It was already bad enough that Google force an unintuitive and friction-laden paradigm for closing a video, where you have to swipe it to make it smaller and then hit the X button. Now the location of the X button has moved to the top left of that minimised picture and the thumb hit area appears smaller, which means way too often I accidentally select the video thumbnail behind it and play the next video, which isn’t what I wanted, so I have to go through that whole process again to close yet another video to finally go and select what I want to watch. The second infuriating change is sticking a circle with the play logo on top of your playing video if it’s not fullscreen? What’s the point of this? I can see the video playing, I don’t need another visual cue to tell me it is playing, so this is nothing but an irritant, distracting from the video I’m watching. Please reverse these changes or at least give me the option to remove them. There are lots of changes that will improve the app that I’m sure will make the experience better. These two were a big miss!

Everything that used to make this app run smoothly has been either dismissed or mutated in its functionality. Mostly having to do with the Chromecast queue. Used to be that when you added something to the queue it would ask you to confirm or dismiss. This prevented those of us with sensitive touch pads from invoking accidentally queuing up something because the side of your hand touched a thumbnail unintentionally and thereby exiting the running video and immediately running the erroneous video. Used to be that Watch Later was treated differently from other playlists. You could select a video for the queue individually. Now it wants to add the entire Watch Later list to the Chromecast queue. In the last couple of days it started its most egregious behavior. Whenever you add or delete something to/from Watch Later it interrupts the running video and replaces the Chromecast queue with everything in Watch Later. And this isn’t even limited to Watch Later. Add or delete any entry to/from a playlist and the playlist becomes the queue.

The ability to select what videos you have queued up has been lost. It feels like sloppy programming while trying to add features without regard to how it affects other functionality. Please return the old functionality.

Update causes app to no longer recognize Apple lightening digital a/v adapter. Now my phone will only do screen mirroring (it used to automatically switch it to AirPlay mode), which I personally would not mind, except that for some reason, i can no longer play a playlist if I am using my adapter. The app will play one video and then stop, even though I am supposed to be playing a playlist. I am not talking about auto play. I am referring to a playlist. And auto play does not work with playlists — because it is a playlist. I used to be able to plug in my adapter, shuffle a playlist and go on about my day with my phone playing video after video. Now, I use my adapter and then have to run back to my phone every time a video ends. Not good —not happy. This is not an IOS issue because it was doing this before I updated. In fact, I updated my phone because I thought it would resolve the problem. I keep trying to find solutions, but nothing has corrected something that was not an issue until now.

The way the layout of the video controls and settings has been completely rearranged and changed is either annoying, pointless, or just makes the user interface worse altogether. Every time I double tap to skip ahead or go back, the pause symbol stays on my screen unless I tap the screen to bring up the video captions and time bar then tap it again to make them go away. I’ve also had the time bar just stay on the screen no matter what I tried to do unless I just closed the app. Not having the button to switch from full screen to thumbnail view in the bottom right corner, or at least be able to customize if you want to accommodate left handed users, is very annoying because it’s now on the farthest corner away from where my thumb can most easily reach it. I’ve also constantly had videos randomly pause on me for no reason with nothing touching the screen. These changes and glitches have really made the experience of using this app over the past few weeks very annoying compared to the previous interface beyond just struggling to get used to a new layout

Okay , so a while back i used to watch the film melanie martinez made . barely any ads . almost none at all . maybe like 3 the whole music film , but now when i watch there is ads in BETWEEN the music . its so frustrating trying to listen to it while ads keep playing throughout the whole thing . probably about 10 ads nn i havent even finished the music film yet . its also not just the film , whenever i click on a video there is ALWAYS an ad . literally every video i click on . i could be finished watching a video that just had an ad at the beginning of it , click on another one nn there are 2 ads . sometimes i can skip sometimes i cant . its super frustrating nn i see some other people in the reviews having these same problems . other than that this is a great app to socialize , have fun , make friends , nn make communities . i like that yu can brand merch on here , make videos about video games , make/upload music videos nn music on here , etc . i love this app . jst please cut down on the ads . it is literally infuriating . thank yu !

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