YouTube is rolling out new video quality controls to its mobile app, which can help to automatically balance data consumption and video quality on a user’s connection.<\/p>\n
According to a report from 9to5Google<\/strong><\/a>, the changes were implemented in a recent server-side update.<\/p>\n Currently, users of the Android and iOS apps are able to manually choose in which video resolution they want their video to stream – from 144p up to 4K.<\/p>\n Additionally, they can opt to let YouTube automatically determine the best streaming resolution based on the quality of their Internet connection.<\/p>\n Going forward, users will be offered four main options – Data Saver, Higher Quality, Auto, or Advanced.<\/p>\n The first two options will all adapt quality up to a certain threshold based on the user’s connection speed, while Auto will remain the same.<\/p>\n According to tests performed by 9to5Google, Data Saver prioritises lower data usage and tops out at 480p while Higher Quality aims for better resolution but is capped at 720p.<\/p>\n The Advanced setting will allow you to continue to define the exact resolution you want.<\/p>\n In addition, users will be able to choose which of the settings to default to based on whether they are connected to Wi-Fi or a mobile network.<\/p>\n This will be useful for those who have a fast, uncapped home Internet connection but limited mobile data on their cellular package.<\/p>\n The setting can be adjusted in the Video Quality Preferences section of the app’s Settings page.<\/p>\n At the time of writing, the latest settings did not appear to be available on the version 16.15.36 of the Android app running on one of our Samsung Galaxy S20 smartphones.<\/p>\n However, this may be a different case for other users as the change is being rolled out on the server-side, and not with an app update.<\/p>\n YouTube is rolling out new video quality controls to its mobile app which will automatically help save data usage on a user’s connection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341042,"featured_media":391861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[69545,3476,2150],"class_list":["post-394757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-video-apps","tag-video-streaming","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Choose settings based on connection types<\/h3>\n
Now read: Big changes coming to iPhones and iPads with iOS 15 \u2013 Report<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"