YouTube

It's a pretty solid app. I've had Premium for many years and will never not have it. Some recent updates have hurt the usability of the app though. There used to be a thin mini player that would continue your video in the app if you tried navigating around. Now there is a bigger square one and I can never hit the X to close it when I need to as it is unpredictable. The Shorts now have even more stuff cluttering the video, including a preview of a random comment. There's no need for that.

The most recent update has effectively made the app a total headache. You can't click on a video without it immediately going Fullscreen. On top of that, the dumb swipe to anothervideois back. No, not swipe to change short clips, swipe to change to another full-length video. I swear, they always break something when trying to change something else. Congrats Google, you ruined something that was perfectly good.

to be honest there's now way too many ads. i was skipping a second cause I wanted to skip it and I had gone through an ad already. it makes me go through another one! 3 more. now when I'm trying to swipe up to see more video choices it won't let me when I'm in full screen mode. it doesn't load. I've tried restarting my phone twice and it's still the same. i am not paying YouTube my hard working money because y'all want a better app. it's called working with hard work people

I'll never understand why you all keep making the app worse with each major update. The mini player is so annoying to deal with now that it's a free moving box rather than the bar that used to be at the bottom. Unnecessarily blocks so much screen real estate. Also, the up and down swipe gestures in full screen switching to the next and previous videos is just atrocious 🤮 Swiping up to go home? Nope, next video. Checking notifications or trying to exit full screen? Nope, previous video.

Way too many ads. It ruins the videos constantly . I understand you want to use them; but, seriously, it's gotten ridiculous. It has just become annoying af. What's the point in watching videos if you can't enjoy them? Even the music videos have been invaded. Those ads that occur in the middle of my vids are the services I will refuse to use. At the beginning and end of the vids don't bother me; but, interrupting the vids with ads just irritate. Might as well go back to watching TV.

I pay for YouTube Premium and occasionally this app breaks. Occasionally an ad slips through and is shown to me, but it's a once-in-a-blue-moon kind of deal. Unfortunately, Videos being watched while in windowed mode cannot be controlled via the floating bubble's controls. This is a major issue that needs to be addressed, especially since it's supposed to be a selling point of the Premium subscription

The ads have gotten out of hand. Use to be one or two skippable ads. Now you're forced to watch a full minute of non-skippable ads that have ZERO to do with you or your personal needs (tell me why, as a man, I need tampons and Plan B?). That's BEFORE the video starts. Then you'll have 3 or 4 more commercial breaks every few minutes, sometimes skippable, sometimes not. This app sucks now.

You can use this this YouTube app like a gotcha game for ads. Did you get the 2 unskibbable ads into another unskibbable ad right after? Unfortunately that's a common drop. The most rare thing you can have is to watch a video and get maybe 2 ads that are both skipable. Jokes aside it's absurd. Watch a 5 min video on something and get a 30 sec ad at the begining and end with 2 ads in the middle, maybe skipable. 5 min video, 2 minutes of ads. Id say that needs to be looked at. Never this bad.

Whatever functionality they tried to add in with one of the more recent updates has been horrendous. Videos will switch back to vertical view, and it still pretends to be in full screen so when you try to swipe up to get to the description and comments it just goes to another video? On shorts maybe but this is happening on regular videos? Absolutely horrendous, who wants to scroll through 10+ minute videos? Let me pick the one I want and see the details of it.

Obviously, the viewing is great. But some of these features just make it harder to enjoy. I try to scroll but because of some unnecessary update, the video I have in the corner gets taken down before I scroll. It also makes it less convenient for repeat. I don't know what this feature is, but can there at least be a toggle? Videos aren't shorts, stop making updates that you really don't need.