Name: YouTube: Watch, Listen, Stream
Rating: 4.67711 (36390462 reviews)

User Reviews for YouTube: Watch, Listen, Stream

4.68 out of 5

36.4M Ratings

1 year ago, fgdhehbdbmsgfgnsjfjsj

Use this everyday and love it but…

I love this app. I have a channel with a couple subs, videos and everything. I use it everyday. I have a suggestion though. It is that mindplayer is kept on even for videos set for kids. Many videos are set for kids and not only enjoyed by kids. It gets really annoying when I’m watching a video set for kids, I go to my recommended and it isn’t playing. Please change this. I also a bug I would love fixed. I also use YT shorts daily. Some of the shorts decide not to load sometimes. I have to scroll up to the previous one and go back for it to work, it’s really annoying. Sometimes it also just doesn’t load at all and I have to skip watching it. (It’s not my Wi-Fi that’s causing this problem). One more suggestion I have is pls add 1.10 playback speed. Please take my suggestions into consideration. Thanks, Adi, a person who loves YT and uses it daily.

1 week ago, Suicide Slendy

Ad problems

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

3 days ago, Sh@dowBerry

Used to be so good; quality has gone down

I love yt and have been using it for years, but over the past couple of months, a lot of newer problems have occurred, and preexisting problems that have gotten worse. 1. The things that get flagged. There are plenty of inappropriate things getting posted on yt and in general most are ignored by the algorithm and continue staying up, yet other things that are getting taken down despite there not being any real problems with it. 2. The ads Yt recently started putting up a lot more ads, which is annoying, not to mention pushing yt premium way more, but the most annoying part is at the end of the video an ad will play, and when you’re in full screen you may not be able to tell, meaning you might be watching an ad for literally no reason. 3. The updates. To be honest the updates don’t really seem to be doing anything other than changing the format, which has been getting consistently more annoying, especially as recently they moved where the x button on miniplayer is, which has become severely annoying as I’m used to clicking at the bottom, which means I have clicked a video I don’t want to watch multiple times because this. It’s really only a problem because I don’t really see the point of moving it. In general I still love using yt but I definitely don’t love it as much as I used to.

4 weeks ago, Draelon

They could care less about anything but profit

They treat creators horribly. The are basically a monopoly so have no incentive to prioritize the customer experience over anything. I want to listen to long form videos and primarily educational science content… you know what’s annoying when trying to do that? Not being able to see downvotes so you can’t immediately tell if a video is worth your time. Almost as annoying having shorts rammed down your throat when you don’t want to see ANY short form content… I can’t wait till more creators I follow move over to competitors so I can completely abandon this app and platform since they don’t bother trying to optimize it in a way I can actually customize what I want to see completely and immediately tell if something is worth watching due to vote ratios. Tired of them prioritizing things I don’t want to watch over what they want me to see. If I downvote someone I subscribe to once that is on their list of creators they don’t like, it disappears from my feed until I manually go to their vids again, but if I downvote ones they consider friendly they won’t stop showing up.

4 days ago, TH3ROUG3SNIP3R

They don’t care about anything but profit.

They treat creators horribly. The are basically a monopoly so have no incentive to prioritize the customer experience over anything. I want to listen to long form videos and primarily educational science content... you know what's annoying when trying to do that? Not being able to see downvotes so you can't immediately tell if a video is worth your time. Almost as annoying having shorts rammed down your throat when you don't want to see ANY short form content... I can't wait till more creators I follow move over to competitors so I can completely abandon this app and platform since they don't bother trying to optimize it in a way I can actually customize what I want to see completely and immediately tell if something is worth watching due to vote ratios. Tired of them prioritizing things I don't want to watch over what they want me to see. If I downvote someone I subscribe to once that is on their list of creators they don't like, it disappears from my feed until I manually go to their vids again, but if I downvote ones they consider friendly they won't stop showing up. The platform has way to many problems to keep listing.

4 years ago, ScarletSkies4

Good app but advertisement overload

I understand the need for advertisements but it’s to the point now that it’s negatively impacting my experience. Now that there’s two, back to back ads in every break it’s irritating how much I have to interact with the app just to finish watching the video. The more I use the app the worse the experience gets. I usually like to use the app while doing other things like cooking or cleaning. I mostly listen and don’t always have my phone in hand. In an 11 minute video with 6 ads, the middle break had a 30 second unskippable ad followed by a 2 minute ad that was skippable. Unless I am physically on my phone to return to the video that would be 2:30 minutes of ads just for 1 of 3 ad breaks in an 11 minute video. It’s overload. I get that using the free version means you gets ads but it’s overshadowing the content. I don’t want to interact this much with something I’m watching. It’s not a game app. Guess I’ll just stick to watching it on the desktop with my ad blocker. Otherwise, yeah YT is ok. They’re just getting into Pandora territory which is disappointing. Didn’t mind the ads until recently.

2 years ago, Skyler Stormer

Community Tabs

Overall, this is a great app and I use it a lot instead of the online website. But the thing is, as a mobile user, when I go to a specific channel and try to see their old community posts [only if I have missed a few days of their content and want to see what they’ve been posting. And if you’re gonna think “just scroll down in the subscriptions tab”, no. I have over a hundred subscriptions with some of them posting every minute; I’m not gonna scroll down that far] it doesn’t let me and says that it isn’t available for mobile or something like that. But I can perfectly see the community tabs in the subscriptions tab? But it still doesn’t work since when I try to open up the comment section area or try to click on the message to see the entire thing, it still says the same thing about it ‘not working’, etc. I’m unable to see full community posts because of this, please fix it.

3 years ago, Technoblade 2.0

Some problems

First off, I love this app. It’s easy to use and a great time-killer; but there is some problems that are annoying. First off, I hate the fact that you get forced to sit through 20 second ads without skipping, every five minutes. And it’s always the same as for me, and I’ve heard that the creators did this on PURPOSE to literally force people to use the Premium edition. Second off, there isn’t a ad timer on my phone that is like “Ads is 5… 4… 3… 2… 1…” but instead the ad just comes out of nowhere. Lastly, there is a weird bug that it something like a PC isn’t updated or the app isn’t correctly updated, Restricted Mode is stuck on and I can’t turn it off saying it’s enforced by an “administrator” and I don’t have an administrator. I hate giving bad reviews, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. Please fix these I love this app just there is a few things I don’t like.

3 years ago, ChickWho'sGettingPissed

Disappointment

You Tube has become just a format for the grandkids to watch, cute kitty videos and how to make DIY slime. The real stuff, people posting videos backed up with statements, video, and bonafide articles, basically truth, are banned while you allow heads being chopped off, inaccurate information (proved inaccurate) and falsified information to continue to be posted. Your “terms of conditions” is obviously politically motivated, unjust and one-sided. You view your watchers as idiots, unable to sort thru the muck of fact or fiction and be able to think for themselves. As you continue to be a politically biased flat form, I would advise you to get a good grip on what your viewer’s opinions are as the tides are turning and people are getting tired of good people being banned while you promote a very incongruous platform. I gave you 2 stars because the grandkids really like to watch Myna birds talking to each other.

4 years ago, Gjvthxffeesxbgf

So many problems

The loading times can be pretty awful. Whenever I switch to a different tab or turn off my phone and play the video I was currently watching, the video takes sooo long to load when I unpause it. This doesn’t occur when I’m using the app and I don’t get why it happens when the app is running in the background. I understand why ads are a thing and this hasn’t been a problem before but now it feels like overkill. Every time I watch a video an ad pops up. Sometimes they’re 15 non-skippable ads and at its worst there’s two. And look, taking away the comments for videos that have been COPPA’d is one thing and removing the mini player is another. It makes no sense. I don’t get how this would be harmful for kids. And the way you decided what videos are for kids is awful. Some of creators have moved on from their channels so when you automatically decide their videos are for kids it removes a whole decade of comment sections. And I hate how I have to worry about my niece stumbling upon two anime girls talking about sex because you automatically decided all animation is for kids.

7 months ago, Chloe’s human.

Updated review

Update: some old problems disappeared. But now sometimes when adding to a playlist some items do not appear. But they do appear when using a web browser and not the app They should list known bugs and what is fixed in the new version. I am afraid to upgrade since this upgrade made things worse. I upgraded” but now I cannot post a comment. I get the circle icon. The post does work sporadically I can no longer sort comments I can not easily switch to sign in another channel When saving to a playlist, it saves to the second ones listed. That is almost always wrong. Need to sort the playlists when saving. I have 193 playlists on one of my channels. 125 on another Need an option to sort playlists on channels where I am not signed in. I configure my playlists surname comma given name. I can sort and it makes a tremendous difference. When reading comments, need a way to block or censor all posts by a user. facebook has that. Makes it civilized.

9 months ago, requireddnickname

Bug issues

YT has always been very reliable but the past couple of updates have caused a lot of bugs. I have no doubt they’ll be fixed but it is frustrating. The biggest issue is audio playing but no video on previews. I also just had an issue where the screen locked sideways but only half the screen and I had to close the app to get it oriented correctly. After I closed the app, audio from the video continued to play for a few seconds. Also, there is a LOT of scam ads. Ads using AI generated celebrity voice audio and then pairing it with a video that clearly doesn’t match up to what’s being said. I’ve reported them but the only way to stop them is for YT to step in. I understand that that’s not going to happen because they’re paying for ad time, but it’s very sketchy. I will update my review when the bug issues are resolved. Fingers crossed…

9 months ago, Crystallantern

Newest Update Made It Frustrating

My main issue is that now, every single video I want to play constantly needs to be reloaded or replayed because of an “unknown error”, usually 3-5 times each video. Weirdly enough, sometimes it happens on a video that didn’t have any ad, but then it will bump into an error while I’m watching, need to be replayed, and then have an advertisement pop up. There’s also increased sensitivity; one accidental “swipe” of the finger from left to right and it will take me one page back, but for some reason, the opposite isn’t a feature. You can only go back a page, but never return to the one you were just on. It’s probably tolerable because it’s on mobile, where a lot of these issues can be pushed through by several taps, but it certainly downgraded my experience. I wouldn’t have updated the app if I knew this came with it, but of course, the previous version of the app didn’t allow you to use it if you didn’t immediately update.

1 year ago, Fun app, get it!

You’re app is akin to a narcissistic mother

One star is now too much for you. I used to enjoy Utube but after the virus you had to label every video that doesn’t fit your narrative with some statement as if people didn’t have access to information any other way. Then you demonized several channels with thousands of followers because you want the control of telling people how and what to think. Then channels get lost in the algorithm because you don’t agree with their platform or what they say because it might hurt someone’s feelings. If a channel bothers someone they don’t have to watch it by the way. You took many off of the platform because you can’t handle people viewing any opinions based on actual factual information that is sourced. You make porn so accessible that kids can find it yet you block ideas that are just out of your comfort zone- hypocrite. Now you make everyone agree to disregard their own privacy and give their private information to any source you like because of your new sign in policy. You are a narcissistic app wanting complete power and control of all information.

3 weeks ago, Little nicky457

Ridiculous Advertisements

It’s honestly sad how unusable this platform has become. I get ads generate revenue but 40 second 60 second ads that can’t be skipped with the excuse of fewer ad breaks just to keep getting advertisements. If I skip to a different part of a video and still get a 60 second ad what’s the point. They’re just money hungry at this point. Double ads that you have to skip? It’s taking away from the experience. I’m not sitting around watching a video for two hours. So if I skip to a further point why are the ads still so long? U can’t even watch 5 minutes without getting either 3 ads or just an excessively long ad. U start video? Ad. Skip to another point? Ad. I wanna watch videos not advertisements. It’s genuinely just become unenjoyable to the point i’d rather just watch something else. Don’t let being so money hungry take away from the part of the app that actually makes it entertaining, the videos. I feel like I’m watching more advertisements than videos now. Please change it back or at least not make so ridiculous with the money grabbing tactics

7 months ago, PremixedBunion

Small but frustrating issue

Beginning to get frustrated with this app. I’ve used the mobile version of the app almost daily for years, and only recently began having this issue, but it happens so frequently now my patience is wearing very thin. I’ve used the iPhone 15 Pro for the last six months and only within the last 2-3 weeks has the problem shown. About 9/10 times I use the app comments on videos won’t show. It’ll show the name of the people who have already commented but it won’t show their comments. So I can’t contribute or even just read other’s thoughts and opinions. And about 1/2 the time it won’t even allow me to add a comment. Double and triple checked I do use the most up to date version of the application. Up until now I’ve given a 5 star rating but the frequency and severity of this issue have nearly dropped my opinion of it to a single star. In all honesty I won’t stop or even limit my use of the app, however I would greatly appreciate if the issue would be fixed in a timely manner.

1 year ago, theflurry1234

If you think this has issues on your phone here’s you should watch on✅

I see lots of issues on reviews on phones but if you reading this computer you could watch on but sometime if you watch on tv it could get annoying because you have to press the buttons on the remote it get annoying a little annoying but I would watch on pc but unless your phone is fine with no issues but a lot of people says they have issues on phone but the tv to type with remote is annoying because it’s really slow but on your computer you can type fast since you have a keyboard (unless you don’t have a computer or laptop) but you don’t have a computer you may have to watch on phone or tv if you don’t have a computer but you do have one you can watch one it I was trying to help btw if you have issues on your phone

1 year ago, Skinsketcher

Watchlist/ Playlist Frustration

When I watch videos from my watchlist, a new playlist (redundant) screen in the player comes up that I am unable to remove the video that I just watched from the watchlist. I have to swipe out of my player, to my watchlist to remove the video that I just watched. But when I do that, I am scrolled to a random location somewhere in the middle of my list where I have to scroll up and down to find the video that I just watched, in order to remove it from the list. I believe this is an issue with any/all playlists. The watchlist used to always have a shortcut on the Home Screen. But now it is dependent on how recently it was accessed. This can be frustrating when you have to scroll all the way down to the ‘W’s in order to find ‘Watchlist’. When saving to a playlist, the order is not alphabetical, but recent. Though that can be beneficial, if you are looking to safe into a play that you haven’t recently saved to, this can be daunting.

2 years ago, Scottinsa

Sometimes Sad

This website is perhaps the most important channel ever created. It represents the best of America and then the world, for everything we as people take pride in. But somewhere along the way it became biased and restrictive to expression and freely being able to share all thoughts. Before you could pick and choose ideas for thought and form your own opinion, and now it decided for you. Life is nothing more than just a space in time where people form amazing lives, share with others. Some good, some bad, we all just individually contribute to life which makes humanity fascinating. Can we restore this great place as it was or do we have accept division, oppression and sadness as the new normal and have to deny free people their throughs and speech which makes us all unique? These places are likes homes to people and nothing is worse than feeling unwanted.

5 years ago, The Apple Corps1

What I love about U Tube!

Almost every site starts out very user friendly, useful and most of all...free! Unfortunately, as greed goes, so do new fees, so called upgrades and no so updates that turn out to be new fees. Not so with U Tube! As with anything now, the are great people for the most, that use this service, but there are crazies that have abused the service. The only complaint is an innocent little video that I put out about kittens that someone put some very nasty comments about it. We rescue animals to save them. This person was very creepy. I do recall that it was a person that had put together voices that were imitations of John Lennon and Paul McCartney talking about events that never happened. I’m not a Beatles expert, but I knew the conversations never happened. I commented that the conversations weren’t real. I’m sure that’s why the author made the comments on my innocent little video.

3 months ago, Hillstudio

Ads ads ads

I enjoy YT but the ads are pesty. I have never nor will ever buy from them. They are an obstacle the moment they get in the way of what I came to watch, and so they are completely lost on me. I’m still not sure why some things I come to see are not preceded by an ad, and others are. I do not subscribe to anything and I don’t participate in the social aspects. I never will. The comments are far too abundant to be able to read in a lifetime and everybody has something they want to say, and everybody seems to be a comedian. I imagine there will come a time when the annoyances outweigh the content that I am entertained by, and I will disengage. Until that time, I will wade through the ads, ignore their content and/or go out of my way and even take lengths to avoid patronizing the advertisers. I hope to have the patience to continue to enjoy the content.

4 years ago, jedishrfu

Flipboard Channel Quality is Slipping

I notice some sites like Wash Post now want you to subscribe and I would rather have it not in my list of things to read. Other channel sites overwhelm you with ads everywhere some pop up as an overlay ad or as an inline ad and force a page reformat while you are reading the content. CNN articles always have this read more button that then reloads the whole article maybe. On my phone it often gets stuck in limbo so I move on to another article or just quit flipboard in frustration. The math channel is cluttered with bike articles that have nothing to do with math. I guess you all expect that mathematicians love to ride bikes more than read about math. Other channels are similarly afflicted with content unrelated to the channel. People want a better reading experience and flipboard is no longer providing that hence the one star. My apologies for the harshness of this review, I like flipboard and the way it presents articles in newspaper format but there has to be a better way to improve article reading without dynamic ad clutter like pop ups or delayed inline ads or pay site articles. Have your app developers really use flipboard themselves and find ways to make a better flipboard 2 or something. As it stands now you will lose folks slowly and they won’t come back.

7 months ago, Juicyjess28

Fairly new addition

I signed up few months ago so I’m still learning how to use everything. I usually watch on my tv so I never see any links in corners or description and I would like to interact w the couple creators I am a big fan of. I was gifted a month membership to aquarium coop in feb and then kg aquatics in march. I feel lucky and noticed I don’t know if that is correct way of thinking about it. One thing I will say I don’t like is the constant reminder that I am not a member (I won’t be after this month ). I’m not a member to anyone’s and the reason is I am trying to support myself and my young daughter along with my 17 yo niece I live on 60$ a week it’s very stressful talking about money. I want you tube to be something that doesn’t relate to my stress in life. It makes me sad I can’t be a member bc I know I won’t even be able to communicate and get seen and a response

4 years ago, David Wonn

Comment Likes no longer go up. Fix it!

It took a while of seemingly endless update loops but the app finally finished an update. So far, some issues seem to be addressed, such as an active video in the lower right obscuring the ability to tap the 3 dots to the right of some videos at the end of long lists, such as Watch Later history and so on. Upon further review, the Videos tab on every channel is blank, regardless of how you sort. That’s a MAJOR bug. [Edit: They have since fixed this, so I’ll bump up the rating.] I like having the new ability to view replies to my comments on other videos without interrupting watching an unrelated video. I also like the addition of ¾ and 1¾ speed multipliers on videos. Unfortunately some videos now get paused when moved to the lower right corner, though this behavior is inconsistent. Also I’ve seen delays on comments in live streams going as far as nine (9!) minutes with only a few hundred or so people in chat. Also I have my fonts magnified due to poor vision, and for some reason, bold text in comments on videos is unusually small. So with the forced update, some things improved, and some didn’t. Update 10/26: This app routinely removes my likes on comments shortly afterward. I remove the like and re-like it, and the counter is fixed, then it decrements. It is so obvious when I’m the only one who liked someone’s comment, only to see the number "1" vanish shortly afterward. Fix your app!

2 years ago, badbadger18

Most broken app on my phone

Google has gotten so lazy. And don’t get me started with how broken their ad system is, and how they only care about making that $ and not monitoring what gets advertised on their platform, Really ironic that they get so angry at creators for not being “family friendly” but the ads are way worse and just plain disgusting. Other than that though i am on here daily Edit: wrote this review months ago. Not only have the issues I’ve experienced not gone away, but now there’s even more issues. 5% of the time the Skip ad timer doesn’t count properly and i need to close my video (yes even if its an ad in the middle of the video). Sometimes the video just pauses and doesn’t unpause until you double tap to rewind 10 seconds, only it rewinds about 2 minutes because the video timer stopped working. I have lower end internet and it forces me into 480p even though 720p works just fine, every single video and i need to manually change it to 720p. Its a stupid new system they decided to make to make this already broken app somehow even worse.

8 months ago, faceshaun007

Well 2024 is coming up. Faster than light.

This is my 3rd review. Ooo let’s Count the ways!!! 1st third party anything_ not good!!! 2nd all the censorship still Uug. At least the ban hammer is collecting dust!! 3rd. How come video games get demonetized?! But not werido stuff! Yall know what I’m talking about. 4th. The cyber bulling. HA. I guess is worse then crime in the streets. I don’t under stand that. But here we are. 5th. The unity in the culture Strong with the Force. If We get churches and politics. To unite. WOOOOOOOO!! America could be unstoppable. Just the facts. Sow to all the American maga hating losers. Bend the knee. Get your feet washed. That’s is the want right. Right. What’s next?? Welp ( disease Ex, no one knows about but we have another failed bio weapon test injection that’s going back fire). We have wars around the world with open boarders_ that’s suicidal) ) and if it couldn’t get any better Spy balloons with orbital strike cannons just float above ( ask me how is America’s military radar systems ? It’s been down graded twice like the economy!! All brought to us by mail in voting!! “The Mob aka La Costa nostra would roll over in its grave.” Ask me would the pope be mail in voted for??? Haaaaaaa NOPE. (( and you tube could actually turn the tides if they wanted to help)))_ I truly believe that.{ Till next time if there’s a next time. Saalute. Blessings and protections amen.

5 years ago, Jakejb2360

Fair

I really don’t like being pestered into a subscription. And commercials or ads are now political can you remove them. I see so many political ads it makes me sick. Everyone of them is just so anti-Trump how about showing the advantages of having them in office and what they would do with their time in office. Like I want to hear how they would take care of our Communities and Country. And honestly it would really be nice to hear some ideas about their plans on what is really important like feeding our homeless winter is approaching and I just want to be able to see benefits of voting for them not more of that anti-Trump crap, it is getting old and it seems like all that is done anymore. Isn’t there more to USA then bashing Trump and his Administration. Show car Commercials plug some you tubers channel that may be of similar genre or subject. Can’t go wrong with food ads.

3 years ago, Flowzn8r

Dislike feature

The recent removal of the feature allowing viewers to longer have the option to see the dislike count of a video lowers the overall quality of the app. This feature was supposedly meant to prevent creators from beings the victim of targeted harassment which is not a problem in the community whatsoever. The videos that would receive a ratio of more dislikes than likes most likely receives the dislikes due to the fact the videos are most frequently misleading, hateful, or display another feature of a video that should not be watched nor is it worth watching. YouTube’s removal of this feature now prevents users from determining the overall quality of the content they wouldn’t have to view had they been able to initially view the count for dislikes. Furthermore, the amount of likes on a video should also no longer be viewable by the audience due to the fact that this increases the chance of an audience member to like a video regardless of their true opinion. Overall YouTube’s recent decision making has been on a level that no company should be proud of.

6 years ago, silver.&.silent

Why change the 3 dots button????

I would use this ALL the time to state if a video is not interesting or if I want to save for later. Now it is super small and you have to hold it down for that same menu to come up, turning an action that used to take no time at all into a frustrating and time consuming experience. If you tap on the three dots it just plays the video, what sense does that make if I’m trying to access the menu. This change happened without me even updating the app itself. Please change this back, there was no reason to do that. Also when a video finishes playing the next recommended videos pop up on the bottom of the screen making it hard to access the full screen button, so when I am trying to go in or out of full screen I almost always inadvertently press another video and then have to go all the way back out to get to what I was watching. Does anyone actually test these “features” before they are pushed out? ETA I just updated the app on my iPad and now the search doesn’t work, this is like a horrible joke. Rollback this update I can’t find anything useful about it.

4 months ago, Ned Reb

Disgusting content "For You"

When searching for content, one gets a list of videos related to the search. Then comes the "For You" section which can contain revolting, and sometimes violent images. I have reported these videos and they remain on the site...things like disfigured or diseased limbs, or images designed to create nauseous reactions. I am now very caution to scroll down when getting to the "For You" section. I have seen other people complain about this in other forums. You Tube doesn't seem to care. Wish I could give zero stars. Update: Repulsive content still present under the "For You" heading. Don't search and then scroll down too far. Disgusting, repulsive content when looking for guitar reviews. "For You" suggested that I watch a video of a man with a disgusting scalp disfiguration...when looking for guitar reviews. Repulsive content still suggested...f you yutoob! Wish I could give 0 stars, or -1 Update: Now, all of a sudden, whenever I select a video to watch, the algorithm suggests disgusting videos from southeast Asia...in languages not my own. Negative stars at this point..,.

2 years ago, MaptainCorgan

Too close to the sun

While I have to respect the relentlessness with which ütube pursues it’s mission of connecting eyeballs and advertisers, they seem to be under the impression there’s no viable alternative, and have started acting like the monopoly they aren’t. I might have been literally yelling but I put up with thirty seconds of the most obnoxious advertising known to man for a two minute clip I wanted to see, but the mini ads (that are only half as mini when you include the buffering time) every forty five seconds had me deleting the app. I did redownload it to access some of the features they’ve removed from the web version, but it’s less time than it took to download I had to delete it again. The content library is still an almost insurmountable advantage, but that’s literally the only thing ütube has left. And a marginally slicker interface I guess, but so not worth all the ways it makes me furious. It’s also straight impossible to fall asleep to a movie that’s being interrupted every few minutes to listen to the smuggest woman ever say “kayak” fifteen times in a row.

4 years ago, Czar_Nick

Own it

Hate that I never watch leftist garbage and suggested videos have CNN, ABC, CBS, CNBC, NBC, New York Times, Bloomberg, The Post, Wall Street Journal, National Review, Time, Washington Post, Huffington, The Economist, USA Today, Black Lives Matter, et cetera as the posters! You Tube, Google, Twitter, Facebook definitely sensor stuff I prefer and over control ones I do want to watch, have to subscribe just to find what I prefer to watch and get word of mouth recommendations. Am looking for alternate choices that don’t manipulate as an agenda. Be sure that I share my opinion on this with everyone I know. I used to get on Facebook and Google more frequently but I am finding more unbiased places to go, you’re next if this keeps up, especially lying that you aren’t biased and manipulative. The only thing keeping me on is the good ones I’m subscribed to. Hope you’ll actually read this and give a hoot.

4 years ago, DeviledEggsareGross

What the-

Everything is just fine, except for a few details, this may just be for me, I don't know. I am unable to watch certain videos because restricted mode is on, I assure you I checked and turned it off on multiple occasions. The other thing is that when I search for a video to watch, instead of the video showing up, I see movies, ads, channels, and other completely unrelated things to my search. This makes no sense to me, I have never had a problem with this in the past, and it has started happening fairly recently. I have checked here in the app store, maybe to update it, but I can't. I am confused about why this is happening to me, and if possible if you could fix this. If anyone else has had trouble with this, and knows how to fix this, please let me know. By the way, this is my first time making a review, it seems a little formal (Not really).

7 years ago, Reality Macro

Some issues with the latest update

I use this app probably more than any other app on my iPhone. For the most part it’s really great, but not without flaws. Most of the videos displayed in the Home screen no longer show the video length timestamp in the bottom right corner of the thumbnail which is really irritating. It looks like all other views in the app show the timestamp, so hopefully it’s a bug that’s fixed ASAP. A couple random videos in the Home list show the timestamp while the other 95% do not, which makes no sense. Sometimes the video rotation gets stuck in landscape and will not revert back to portrait view, only the opposite landscape view. This has been a problem for a few months now, and the only way to fix it is to force quit the app. This is quite irritating. Finally, a good addition but extremely overdue feature is the ability to sort the Watch Later playlist. FINALLY this utterly BASIC feature exists. I have no idea why the Watch Later playlist worked so differently than regular playlists for so long, but that’s fixed now. The best addition from a few months ago was the feature of double-tapping to rewind and fast forward. Every video player needs this. It’s incredibly user friendly. It’s way better than the rudimentary 15-second skip buttons that many players now have.

4 years ago, jfkwxn

Nonexistent comments section

I've heard about the new update where video comments were moved to a different part of the page, which bothered me a little but not too much. However, when this app updated on my iPad, the comment section was completely removed and nowhere to be found. There is a button at the bottom of the recommendations that seems to redirect you to the new comments location, but when I tap on it, it just brings me to the original comments location, which is now entirely blank. I can't see comments other people posted, and I don't have the option to write a comment myself. I've made sure that it wasn't just that comments were disabled on the videos since I can see the comments on another device using the same account and same video. As someone who reads the comments as much as I watch the videos, I'm really disappointed and frustrated.

7 months ago, Don't waste the data!!!!

Big Tech….

Another of the many apps and websites that were once great, but because of greed, are now awful. The number of ads you have to watch anymore is simply ridiculous when compared to other Apps like games and media viewers. I use to watch 3-5 videos and get maybe 2 ads that ran for 15 seconds each. Now, it’s about 6 ads for every 2 or 3 videos you watch and they’re back to back and not skippable(not counting the ads that run after the video). The other thing that’s gotten worse lately is the commenting. I can be chewed out, cursed at, and threatened…. But when I reply to a comment it’s assumed that I’m going to break the community guidelines and my comment never posts, or is quickly removed. This wouldn’t be a big deal if I actually broke the rules or guidelines, or was a troll like 50% of the people on the site. There are no warnings or notifications that I broke a rule, so I’ll never know why my comments are deleted. I’m left to just assume YT is becoming just another Corporate Tyrant, and are trying to influence society through censorship and and greed.

5 years ago, cay-os

Like app BUT

I actually like this app most of the time, however now that my son likes to watch movies and we have watched the ones we have at home like 300 times each I wanted to let him watch new ones on my phone. Due to the amount of data it takes, we don’t live near any WiFi connections and I only have my phone to view them on, I wanted to down load it to watch later with out using more data. Unfortunately, I am unable to down load any movies rated for children. Now this seems ridiculous to me I would think it would be the other way around where some could not down load rated r movies so kids can’t just down load bed movies at will. I think it would be better if we could at least down load kid movie with a pass word or something if we can prove we are the parent at least come on that is why I use you tube to see music videos and so my son can see kid movies. But I only 5G so he can’t watch his favorite ones two or three times because it used all my data, To bad I really did like this app but now I don’t use it very much.

2 years ago, charming nyx

Terrible update

The way you tried to condone and pack down the notifications bar is nice but awful, you make it a hassle to put notifications into your playlists without having to physically click every video and go back every time. Also the way you have the playlists is again too packed and you can barly see the playlists that you have out. Also for the notification sections you have, it’s annoying that if you have more then like five nodifications, to see the rest of the videos you again have to click and it goes into those weird playlists things. Also I hate how the nodifications when they go into the playlist things are from newest to oldest, making you unable to watch it from the oldest or beginning of a series to the end. Bad design choices all the way

7 months ago, MaybeSaying

Poor Censorship

I saw a video talking about Dolly the sheep clone, people in the comment section were spreading how Dolly died because the sheep of the DNA taken to create Dolly was already old, therefore the clone which is Dolly continued the aging and died at 6. I felt weird and went up doing research, found out it’s because Dolly got infected with common lunge disease and got lunge tumor which led to it’s death. There’s also disclaimers about the saying within the comment section, which I decided to write a comment to tell people not to trust it. But my comments got censored whenever I attempt to judge or challenge if the person saying it having any evidences to back it up or even done any research. And I tried to adjust my comment to including only my research results and I got censored again, my comment shown successfully commented but disappears when ever I exit the video and click back in. This is for sure not good and misleading, I can’t even speak up and had to click report button that not even sure if it gonna work or not.

1 year ago, sub aharrylife on youtube

This app is almost perfect

I love this app! I really want this to be my life career to become a YouTuber! Though there is something they need to fix 1. When I post a video on private five days ago, then I put it on public it still shouldn’t say posted five days ago, though it should in creator studio so I have proof if someone reopload your vid 2. I got demonetized, but I already have all the requirements. Over 4000 hours of watch time, and 1000 subs! EDIT: years and this app has some great content but it’s also worse than I used to be. I’m sure most are familiar with its issues so I won’t state the obvious, but I will say this. PLEASE STOP PUSHING SHORTS! None of any other short content platform is as good as tik tok in both design and algorithms. It’s annoying to see it as the first few things you see when you look at the app page! Fix your issues and do what your good at. shorts should be an after thought.

7 years ago, The One And Only The Prodigy!

Strange status Bar glitch

Hi there… This app is great… But there is one problem… there is a strange status bar bug… lets say you are watching a video… And you want to check the time The time doesn't change… If you check the status bar while watching a video for example… Let's say I play a video that is 15 minutes long… At 9:31 AM and when that video is finished… It's already 9:47 AM unless… You exit out the video… The time still says 9:31 AM it'll be 5 o'clock in the afternoon and the status bar would still say 9:31 AM it's like… The clock got stuck The time doesn't change… Unless you restart the app… Or exit out the video also… Nothing in the status bar changes including the battery level The only way to see the correct time and all of the other information displayed you have to exit out the video And… For the iPad version if you select add to bye accident there is no cancel button it's been like that for three years please fix those issues… There really annoying

3 years ago, Darkknight1966

Steve Slate Drums

I’ve been looking and reviewing on a lot of stuff from Steve Slate audio. The software plug-in for the drums are outstanding I bought the basic platinum kit for like 120 bucks. I am not disappointed with it I can’t wait to play with it later on I don’t want to put it down it’s so much fun to play with. Especially having the black album from Metallica on there it’s pretty cool which is under Steve Slate Meadow and then you’ll see a black cat and that’s all but all the white kid that they had on that album. I would highly recommend this software companion to the recording on Arsenal I don’t think you’ll be discouraged sound quality is fantastic it’s something you could check out go to SSD 5.5 and you can download the basic version of it it’s only like one or two cats but you get the idea and then you can decide to pay the &120

1 month ago, Eenie320

I hate the App Store rating system…

…because the only way for me to get the developer’s attention is to leave a 2-or-less-star rating. I’m past the point of making excuses for how the app defaults to adding any video I “save” to putting it in my “Watch Later” playlist, no matter how many times I undo the addition in that playlist and instead add it to my favorites and no matter how many updates are issued. The app (and developers) should be smart enough to know which playlist I’m trying to add videos to, especially once I’ve seen them in their entirety. There is almost NO WAY I’d be adding them to my “watch later” playlist when I’ve already watched them in full. It doesn’t make any sense to me why this is still something I’m dealing with as an end user, even given this stage of the advancement of technological capability. It’s ridiculous, frankly — I don’t know how else to put it. I expect better from one of the most valuable companies on the planet, and I don’t think I’m off base for doing so.

2 months ago, Idk so ye…

Every single thing is amazing in this app but..

I love this app so much!!!! It has music, videos both family friendly and to age settings!, and so much more but their ONE CHANNEL I HAVE TK POINT OUT! Haiya_hate_all is a Spanish gacha tuber that hates on literally everything and when I say everything I mean EVERY SINGLE HECKIN THING! She hates on so many things! She’s a gacha tuber that hates on lbgtq+, Christians, satirists, any sort of religion tbh even Muslims she’s also racist, absolutely horrible at making videos in my opinion, I recommend blocking and reporting her channel if u wish to not see her pop on ur fyp(for you page) please stay away from her channel and make sure ur kids do as well, but it’s very very very rare to get one single person like that off of the other 1bil+ people on yt, u can even make ur own playlist and everything highly recommended! (AGAIN STAY AWAY FORM HAIYA)

3 years ago, Goobacca starshipp

Censorship is annoying.

I am no right wing neocon or Trump supporting populist by any stretch, but I certainly do get annoyed with all the censorship that seems to skew one way on this platform. Your censorship is applied terribly inconsistently - one video will be taken down while ten others running far more afoul of your rules will remain. I’ve begun to look at other platforms (like Odysee) even though, for familiarity’s sake, I’d prefer to just stick with this one. That said, your platform still contains more videos on a wider range of topics than your competitors do, but that won’t last if you keep this up. Protools used to be my DAW (digital audio workstation) of choice, but they allowed themselves to fall behind depending on their status as the “industry standard” to keep them relevant. The only reason people still use it is because that’s what a lot of pros started out on and are used to, but their status as the music industry’s standard is waning. I am actively annoyed that anybody still gives that DAW the time of day anymore.

4 years ago, iPhone iConnoisseur

Stagnant monetized development

I have been a premium subscriber for a while now, so as new capabilities become available, I can understand the desire to monetize to create a variation between premium and non subscribing. The thing is that exists with ads and services such as TV. The biggest reason I got premium is I didn’t want to see ads for things I didn’t care about. That is the same reason I didn’t get TV, I don’t care about it. The desire to limit things such as PIP as to not lose the differences between paid and non is becoming ridiculous. Now, in the struggle to control background playing on iOS, google has safari crash if it is a non paying account trying to use PIP on mobile safari. Personally, that is kind of rude, and Apple should fix it in a patch because safari force crashing is in my opinion a iOS bug. No website should have that much control over your browser and OS. Apple? My gripe is that the app doesn’t have the functionality. Seriously? I’m already paying for it. Why do I have to use safari as a paid subscriber? It is this type of account greed that ruins companies.

4 years ago, Stoocy05

I have an idea for the inbox tab

I love using the app so much, and other than the comment section being moved, it’s great. I have an idea, though. What if you change the way the “Inbox” tab works? Like when you click the “Inbox” tab, there are two separate tabs on the top. One should obviously be for new videos from your subscription feed and the other should be notifications from comments you’ve left. I tend to comment quite a lot and often find myself scrolling through many videos in my inbox just to find the comment I’m looking for. I also know that many don’t like commenting, so that tab will be kinda useless for them, but what if you make it an option for the users in settings? It would really improve user experience, especially those like me, who like commenting a lot. It would be nice to see this implemented in the app!

7 months ago, Leni Dell

Availability’s

I applaud Utube on the wide array of subject matter. Everything from education to entertainment. I would love to see Utube being proactive with the many citizen groups of Scam and Predator Catchers. I fully support unprofessional groups harassing people being taken down. However Utube takes down professional, non threatening groups that literally have binders full of evidence AND police presence. These groups are doing more to save lives BEFORE one becomes a victim than given credit. They’re helping to make being online safer for everyone BUT the criminals. That includes the scammers ruining people online. Clearly the general public is interested in viewing these videos for many many reasons. It’s the RIGHT THING TO DO. I appreciate UTube, and hope going forward Scam Catching and Predator Catching teams get more support from Utube. Thank you.

7 years ago, Rose Mairi

Needs Some Improvements

For the most part, this app works really well, but sometimes after a video ends while I have it on full screen, it freezes and stays black for a few seconds, which is a little odd. The only other problem I have is that when I pause a video to read something and have to tap the vid to get the white pause symbols out of the way, it glitches if I tap it twice too fast and the symbols freeze for a few seconds, which is aggravating and has been happening for a few months now. I’d really appreciate it if you guys could fix these two small issues. Other then that, everything else is great. Update: It doesn’t seem like any of the problems I mentioned have been fixed, as they’re still happening. Please fix those issues. Also, for some reason, this app just now closed on me and my phone turned off and immediately turned back on. I’m assuming it has something to do with the app itself. If so, please fix that problem.

1 year ago, Destitution Institution

Content, Censorship, and Advertisements.

To be perfectly honest, I spend way too much time on this app, and I do use premium simply to download music into my phone. However, the content that is typically encouraged is not very appealing to most. For example, history videos about some, hot-button item, like weapons as a non-specific example, or any object used in warfare, self defense, or literally ANY OTHER ACTIVITY, if it at all goes against the political agendas of the powers-that-be, regardless of the tone, scope, scale, etc of the person present said object, information, concept, perspective or what have you, both the automatic and manual review processes tend to age-restrict, demonetize, block, remove said content or the entire channel. It’s understandable if they are unreasonable people, or post legitimately harmful or unsafe content. Such as Isis Execution videos. And there is NO REASON, to put an ad on a video that is demonatized. Or on a video that is shorter than the video.

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