YouTube Premium: 5 new features you can use to enhance your experience
YouTube's paid subscription tier aka YouTube Premium has added five more features that will definitely differentiate it enough from the free tier to get you to pay for it every month.
In a recent blog post, the company announced that in addition to offering an ad-free experience and the ability to play videos in the background, users will now be able to queue videos, watch videos together with friends, sync video playback across devices, and stream videos in enhanced 1080p. Let’s understand each of these features.
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What are the 5 new features?
Video queue
YouTube's desktop version has long allowed users to queue videos, but the mobile app has not yet offered this functionality. Users of YouTube Premium will now be able to queue videos on both phones and tablets thanks to a new update.
Watch together
If you are someone who wants to watch videos on YouTube with friends, family, or colleagues, YouTube’s latest Meet Live Sharing feature might come in handy. Available on Android devices, Premium users can now host Google Meet sessions where all attendees can watch YouTube videos together. In the coming weeks, YouTube says it will bring the same experience to FaceTime users on iOS via SharePlay.
Pick up where you left at
With the addition of the new continue-watching videos function, YouTube appears to have upped the ante. YouTube Premium subscribers will soon be able to pick up where they left off watching videos when they switch between devices, much like other streaming services that allow you to pick up where you left off.
Smart Download
Smart Download is a new feature that automatically adds recommended videos to your library and downloads it for offline viewing. This is available only for premium members, it only works when the user is connected to a Wi-Fi network, which implies you won’t have to worry about YouTube consuming mobile data.
1080p Premium
Available on iOS devices and the web version of YouTube in the coming days, Premium members will be able to watch videos in an enhanced bitrate version of 1080p. If you are someone who watches videos with lots of detail and motion like sports or gaming, YouTube says the new feature will offer a deeper visual quality.
