At least on iPhone, YouTube has recently updated their app (I believe the update is from 2/7/24) and you cannot open the app on iPhone unless you update. A message will pop up automatically telling you that you must update to continue.

I have opted not to update the app yet until I heard from others. What’s with the force update??? Usually you get a choice, and unless your version of the app is so old that it ceases to function properly due to lack of support, you’re still able to use it. That’s not the case this time.

Has anyone updated to the most recent version of the YouTube app yet? What’s Google’s logic behind forcing people to update to the latest version?

Anybody else having issues with YouTube after the update? Videos aren't playing, and when they do, it's a different video.

I use YouTube via Brave browser to avoid ads, both on my phone and computer.

This morning I noticed I couldn't minimize brave on my phone and still listen to videos anymore, they'll keep pausing until I reopen the browser.

I'm watching videos on my computer and while full screened, I noticed I couldn't scroll down and see comments anymore. I have to minimize the video then scroll.

Does anyone know if this is related to a YouTube update? I can't find anything about youtube or Brave updating so I'm not sure what happened.

TYIA!!

A bit over a year ago, I noticed that when I went to update my apps in the play store, a problem kept appearing with YouTube: "couldn't update". It was strange but ultimately didn't matter. This was until the last month or so, when YouTube required the user to update the app in order to access the main page. So in order to use the app, I need to update it, which I can't do.

What have I tried? First idea was to reinstall the app, but I can't do that because YouTube was preinstalled with Android. The next idea was to clear my cache and memory in the app. This did work, but only the first time I tried it. I closed the app, reopened it, and was back to where I was. Clearing cache/memory has not worked since then either.

So now I'm stumped, and I'm forced to use the browser version of YouTube. Google's help page is super shallow about this issue as well. Anyone have any ideas? Additionally, why could it be that the app isn't able to update?

Well..i just update the yt app and now the app doesn't let me in. I keep clicking on it and it sends me back every time. What's going on..what do i do with this..