Because 4K on a 6 inch screen does not make sense

They limit the resolution on Safari; you need to use the app

What about 1080p then?

Do you know any reason for that?

Because you can’t block ads in their app

What iphone do you have?

14 pro max

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Use the app their is a cap in safari

Pretty sure it's because Safari doesn't support the codec they use, AppleTV had this issue for a long time aswell

The app might be different.. i dont use the app at all. I use the browser but I’m fine with the 360-720 resolution. It could be your carrier too, i dont have the HD turned-on thru my carrier so I’m just used to it, i mean… is a 6 inch screen. But I heard the app could be different, up to 1080.

Because you may got an older iphone

This comment explains it.

You have to use the app there is a limit in safari and the app is way better too. Not sure why ppl refuse to use the app so much

If you are on cellular, your carrier caps it.. 4k is like 1 gigs per minute so you will strain the network. 1080 is probably 50 megs per minute… so you have to change your plan or activate HD viewing. But the app allows it. I just don’t use because you can not block ads. In safari you can, I use adguard pro. I rather don’t have ads then have 1080… specially when jumping from video to video.

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It's not that big lol. 1080 is like 2 gigs per hour.

Too many ads without a blocker or premium

Right…. At 60 hz right…. I got the figures from my Apple TV + router .. I wonder if 1080 120hz … i know my tv can not handle 240hz .. something that 4k claims.. don’t care really. But it is a strain on cell carriers so they limit this.

Ads ads ads.

If you think about it if you use YouTube that much like I do then just get premium or deal with ads you have to choose

so you use their app

I dont use it that much, I go days without using YouTube. I only use it when I need something technical, like.. how to remove a transmission of an f250.. or idiots on cars when I want to burn time… replacing power steering on a 24 foot boat… stuff like that. I’m not spending a dime on google. Adblocker is a blessing.

That’s fair until in march when google changes how YouTube works and ad blockers won’t work anymore

You might want to look up what all those things mean and how they affect each other cause your math is completely wrong

They are? Didn’t know that.. will have to read about it.

Nah, don’t want to be a mathematician today, i just wanted to make a point regarding 720, 1080, 4k … the more data it uses, the carrier not wanting to do that… all the good stuff and the size of the screen.

Now, in Final Cut.. I do care about bitrates and sound hz…. But not now.

You're super far from right on this man lol

Maybe you have some data saver settings since youre on 5g.

But I can play high res videos on my Mac on safari.

Download Vinegar app

But it will look better that’s guaranteed

They are changing to the version three manifest whatever that means

Anything over 720p google switches to vp9 or whatever their codec is called anything below is streamed in H.264

Try uYouPlus if you’re using the website for Adblock or background play.

Any free alternative to that?

I don't think macOS Safari and iOS Safari are the exact same, I may be wrong but that's what I think. I remember a few years ago the AppleTV couldn't play 4k YouTube videos and that was because Google used a format that Apple was against implementing(Because it was inferior to what Apple already had if I remember correctly)

Brave browser, but is also subject to limited video quality

You paid a thousand dollars for a phone and can’t spend 2.99 on an app?

If there’s something else out there that does the same job for free wouldn’t that be better?

It’s so annoying. YouTube always loads in 360p by default on iPhone and maxes out at 720p (some videos don’t even get that, but on Safari in macOS gets higher). Even an old iPad Air 2 gets 1080p, but a brand new iPhone is limited to 720p?

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Great info. Hey, have you been able to make a home screen shortcut that runs from safari once you installed vinegar?

Thats a limitation on safari, if you want an ad blocker app try uYouPlus, no jailbreak needed, just sideload and go.

how do I get that app?

Use russian vpn. Youtube disable reward in russia, so no ads in app without premium.

I figured it out. So happy. 😀

Remove YouTube app Create open URL shortcut Add shortcut to home screen with icon pack of your choice. Profit. Vinegar is legit! 👍🏻

i don’t have youtube premium in my country. Should i watch 2 ads before every video?

Can i play 8k videos on mac safari? I couldn't find a setting to go above 4k

I’m not saying you should have ads, that’s why you should get an adblocker like this :)

uYou+

I don't think you can play a higher quality than 4k on yt

Google locks the max resolution on the YT website to 720p on mobile to push people to use the app. There’s an awesome Safari extension called Vinegar which will let you watch up to 1080p. Also replaces Google’s player with the native one, removes ads, adds Picture in Picture, and is built by an awesome dev. Well worth the price imo

Tracking, ads, bad UI (imo) and lack of PiP all push me to the web. I’ve got an awesome extension called vinegar which adds the native player, blocks, ads and more. It’s well worth the price imo

Shit, i once tried a Lenovo laptop which was playing 8k video on a 1080p display 💀

You can, but most probably only on desktop Chrome. There are plenty of 8K videos on YT

Sideload, you need a laptop/pc and wifi to do that, and you need to renew the app every 7 days.

Just go to the sub for more information.

Premium solves the ads and PiP stuff. For me it's honestly worth it, but that's possibly not true for you and others.

Head over to the r/Altstore sub, uYouPlus github is here

No, that’s not the reason. Mobile Safari doesn’t support VP9.

I’m sure it does. For me and many others, as you said, it’s not worth it. And personally, paywalling a system feature (PiP) which is free on android is just absurd. And on top of that, as I said, I hate the YT UI. Vinegar replacing that UI with the native one is awesome for me. And it also works on my iPad and Mac, where I watch the majority of my content

that doesn't stop ad blocking, it just changes how it's done, besides you could always use a different browser?

I have PiP and I love it and you can disable tracks and ads in the Google security settings the UI is subjective i personally like it very clean and nice but that’s again subjective

Half of your recommendation will be vodka,grenade and Ukraine lol

Yeah, I mean you do you mate. Although I have to say, you absolutely cannot turn off tracking. You may be turning off certain tracking. But not all of it

sure, use vodka and vpn

Its YouTube restricting it

uyouplus

Are you sure? I switched to a Russian vpn and it still shows ads

I'm from Russia and I don't have ads in the app, but if I use vpn I see ads for the country where the vpn server is located

You’re too funny. Spewing random numbers that make no sense and then saying “don’t want to be a mathematician today” after being called out on your bullshit.

No thanks, never. It’s always been a free service and I am not about to pay for it now. Youtube is a shit platform. I had to install a browser extension just to be able to watch age restricted videos even though I’m way over the age of 18. And that’s because EU made it so YouTube had to require either your ID or your credit card info to verify your age, none of which Google has any business seeing. So fuck YouTube and fuck EU too. Never paying a cent to watch YouTube. Adblock is free.

Idk about mac only know about the phone.

It’s 100% just to make you use the app vs the browser on mobile devices. Not because of any missing codec.

YouTube doesn’t support 120fps. Even if your device is 120hz or 1200hz the video and stream is still 60hz max.

Yes, locked at 60 and mainly defaulted at 360. Which for a phone it looks great. Still not getting the app.

VP9 was for 1440p+. If it was a codec issue, they’d still have 1080p as an option.

It’s to herd you toward the app.

My ipad supports up to 4k

How to install it (ios 16.3.1)

Use the app, why would you watch youtube in a browser on mobile?

only on chrome.

Scarlet

Could you give a detailed explanation.

Musi

Isn’t that a music streaming app?

That’s what they label it but I use it to avoid ads on all YouTube videos

https://github.com/qnblackcat/uYouPlus/releases/tag/v18.01.6-2.3.1 download the ipa and install it to your phone using sideloadly

How do you get sideloadly. Could you explain that?

Search it up and download it on your pc/laptop

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Video quality is limited to 360p

I use the "stop seeing ad" but I can't do it sometimes on some videos like the "yt kids" ones

I only watch videos in English, never anything in the language from the country I live in. I never get recommendations in different language, so you’ll be fine.

Just downloaded it and it works amazing! I added the youtube website to my homescreen so I can find it via Spotlight. Amazing experience with Vinegar! And I love that Vinegar can auto select the best quality.

You realize ads are the reason it's a free service right?

You could use AltStore

I didn’t mind the original little banner ads at the bottom of the video. They were not intrusive and were never a problem. The video ads are what I have a problem with. I’ve used adblocker from the day I installed Chrome.

No, that's not the reason. Mobile Safari doesn't support Media Source Extensions.

Nope, it's because Mobile Safari doesn't support Media Source Extensions.

Every time I see this asked, the person asking gets highly-upvoted answers that are complete bullshit. You want a real answer?

YouTube stores all of their video files and audio files separately. It's a clever way of saving server space—you can have all of the different video files (at a bunch of different resolutions and video codecs), and then a few audio files (at different bitrates and formats), and then on the fly pick the best video file for the user, pick the best audio file for the user, and play them back at the same time. For example, here's all the individual files that YouTube generates/stores for the Costa Rica video from your post.

In a browser, YouTube uses Media Source Extensions which allows them to combine those video and audio streams, and do things like let you switch resolution without the video stopping (or even dynamically switch the resolution based on available bandwidth without interrupting the video.)

Safari on iOS doesn't support Media Source Extensions. So in addition to the multitude of individual video-only and audio-only streams YouTube generates, they also generate a few versions that include both the video and audio in one file—but only up to 720p. That's why Safari only shoes those options, it's all it's capable of playing, because there's no assembly needed by the browser. (Interestingly, Media Source Extensions is implemented in Safari on iPadOS, which is why you'll see more resolution options there.)

That's incorrect, it's because iOS Safari doesn't support Media Source Extensions.

It's not the codec, it's because iOS Safari doesn't support Media Source Extensions.

That's wrong though. It's not about the video codec, it's about combining a separate video and audio stream, something iOS Safari can't do because it doesn't support Media Source Extensions.

bro it was a joke,and when i put on vpn to watch porn because porn is banned in my country,i get that country's genre :D

To avoid watching their shitty ads

Here you go

Ads show on mobile too.

Not for me they don’t…

This is great, I’ve been using AdGuard which blocks ads but I’m only at 720p, this is great and a time charge of $2 not bad!

>(Interestingly, Media Source Extensions is implemented in Safari on iPadOS, which is why you'll see more resolution options there.)

How's that 'interestingly'? Apple surely does try to worsen the experience, no reason not to support media source extensions.

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> It’s always been a free service and I am not about to pay for it now. Youtube is a shit platform.

What a shit attitude, ads are a fair trade off for a great service if you dont wanna pay. Made me cringe HARD reading this

They do not deserve my money for reasons I described in my initial comment. I will always use adblock everywhere that I and nothing is gonna change my view. I can’t stand ads, and if I can avoid them for free, well you bet I’ll do just that.

Honestly, good job mate.

> Apple surely does try to worsen the experience

How does Apple "try to worsen the experience"? The obvious guesses are that Apple hadn't gotten to implementing it in a way they want to be performative.

Or maybe Apple intentionally won't enable it because making Safari work smoothly means deciding not to support certain popular technologies, and forcing everyone else to adapt—perfect example of that is Apple's refusal to support Adobe Flash. Was Apple's motivation to not support Flash "trying to worsen the experience"?

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> Stop D riding Apple

My original comment is explaining how the max 720p is literally Apple's fault, and not YouTube's fault. I'm the only one in the entire thread correctly blaming Apple for this. And I'm D riding Apple?

You should try reading the comments before you say stupid shit.

> literally just a codec.

I explained in my comment that it isn't a codec, but a web specification. It's not "Safari doesn't support the V9 codec" like a lot of people mistakenly think—apparently you're misinformed about that too.

> Bruh, this is a fanboy excuse,

Educated guess, not an excuse.

Still waiting on you to explain how "Apple does try to worsen the experience"

After spending $1000 on a phone, many don’t have money left to spend willy-nilly on Apps!