Your YouTube Premium journey is about to enhance significantly. Photo: YouTube
Enhancements to YouTube Premium Subscription Benefits
YouTube is elevating the subscription experience for its Premium members by unveiling a variety of new benefits aimed at enriching user enjoyment. Subscribers can now relish in accelerated playback speeds on their mobile devices while also accessing high-definition audio streaming.
New Features for iPhone Users
If you’re an iPhone user, you’ll be thrilled to learn that you can now view YouTube Shorts using the picture-in-picture (PiP) feature, allowing for multitasking while watching content. Furthermore, the Smart Downloads functionality is expanding, providing support specifically for Shorts.
Expanded Experimental Features
YouTube has previously allowed users to activate experimental features but limited them to one at a time; however, this policy has changed. Now, Premium members can enable multiple experimental features simultaneously for an enhanced viewing experience.
Noteworthy Updates Without Price Increases
YouTube is introducing several new premium benefits without raising subscription fees:
- Improved Audio Quality: Music video streams will now be available at 256kbps bitrate for superior clarity and richness in sound.
- “Jump Ahead” Feature: This new convenience tool aids viewers in bypassing less relevant segments of videos—a function that was previously mobile-exclusive and is now accessible on web browsers as well.
- Faster Playback Rates: Mobile users will have the option to accelerate video playback speeds up to four times quicker than normal.
The last two enhancements are particularly beneficial for iPhone subscribers who can fully leverage the picture-in-picture mode with Shorts; this enables seamless texting or web browsing during their viewing sessions. Moreover, with extended Smart Downloads capabilities on iPhones, users can pre-download suggested Shorts for offline engagement at their leisure.
A Recent Major Upgrade and More Offers
The latest significant upgrade took place in April 2023 when SharePlay support was introduced—bringing much-requested collaborative viewing experiences among friends and family directly into your phone’s ecosystem.
YouTube Premium Tied with Google One Subscriptions
A noteworthy development has occurred with Google offering YouTube Premium through Google One subscriptions beginning recently. For subscribers of the 2TB Google One plan within the United States, there’s an opportunity to access YouTube Premium services at a special rate which enhances overall value significantly.
Additonally, Google plans to enrich its conversational AI functionalities available on iOS devices “soon,” enabling users to inquire about specific content related queries while they navigate through videos.
