YouTube Premium Extended his list of Only paid functions– At least for those who are willing to experiment.
In a blog post this weekIf the company announced a handful of new experimental functions that are available to premium subscribers. These functions are not activated by default, but can be activated via youtube.com/newand can be used until the expiry date. In addition, YouTube announced a foretaste of a feature in progress and a premium discount for Google One subscriptions.
Music in higher quality
YouTube Premium adds a new high -quality audiobitrate for music videos. Now songs can have up to 256 kbit/s, which corresponds to the highest audio quality from YouTube Music. This function is currently only available for iOS and Android until February 22.
Jump Ahead (on the Internet)
Springe ahead Is a AI-based YouTube function that analyzes the playback behavior of a certain video to determine the “best” part and offers to “jump” for this section. YouTube originally introduced the function as a test almost a year ago and has since made it a YouTube premium option for mobile devices. Now you can access it from now on until February 5 as an experimental function on the Internet.
Image-in-picture for shorts
Image-in-picture (or PIP) is a useful way to watch a video while operating multitasking on your device. However, if the video in question is a YouTube short video, PIP does not work, probably because the videos are quite short.
However, if you have a premium subscription, you can activate an experimental function with which you can watch shorts in PIP. I think these are good news for very busy spectators who want to watch a video that takes 60 seconds or less, but have to get to work again immediately. Curiously, this function is only available for iOS and only until February 19.
Automatic shorts downloads
Speaking of shorts: A new experimental premium function automatically downloads shorts for the offline display. This function is also exclusive for iOS: If you register for the experimental function, you can go to the download area of YouTube and scroll into “intelligent downloads”, where you can find all recently downloaded shorts. This function is available until February 19.
YouTube premium discount on Google One
Google also introduces a new discount for YouTube Premium when it is bought with one Google One Premium subscription (or higher). Google One Premium starts at $ 9.99 per month, and while YouTube Premium usually costs $ 13.99 per month, you can reduce these costs to $ 11.99 per month. This is not gigantic Saving, but I think it will be an interesting offer for everyone who already has both subscriptions or have one of the two subscriptions and are not yet sure whether they should subscribe to the other.
When you think: “Wait: I pay $ 19 for YouTube Premium. What are that about $ 14 a month? ”That means that you probably have registered via the app and not via the website (at least under iOS). Companies often increase the costs for subscriptions in apps compared to those on the websince you have to pay a tax of 30 % to Apple or Google. If you have registered via the Android app, you probably didn’t have this premium increase.
Faster playback speeds on iOS and Android (available shortly)
This function is not yet available, but in his blog post, YouTube announced a function that will expand the options for the playback speed on mobile devices. iOS and Android users can stream at up to four times speed. If you want to view or listen to content at this speed, I cannot say.
