YouTube Premium gets 5 New Features! Complete Details

YouTube has announced 5 new features for YouTube Premium Subscribers. These new YouTube Premium features include queuing your favorite content, hosting Google Meet sessions, cross-device syncing, and more. YouTube says in its press release that these new YouTube Premium features will help subscribers “up their YouTube game.”

YouTube Premium currently costs approx Rs.129 per month for individual users in India and the same costs approx Rs.981 per month in the US. Until now many users were not able to find purchasing the YouTube Premium paid subscription worth the money. However, with YouTube now introducing new features, YouTube Premium can become a more value-for-money subscription for many users.

So, here are the complete details of the new features of the YouTube Premium subscription.

Below is a list of all new YouTube Premium features announced by YouTube recently as well as a detailed explanation of what each of these new feature means.

While YouTube AI is probably one of the most comprehensive ones when it comes to providing “Next Recommended Videos”, there are times when you want to watch certain videos in a phased manner. To watch videos on queue in YouTube, simply follow these steps:

1. Find the video you want to add to your queue.

2. Click “More” next to the video title.

3. Select Add to queue.

Or, you can:

1. Find the video you want to add to your queue.

2. Hover over the video.

3. Select Add to queue

This feature was available on YouTube web and now is expanding to phones and tablets.

We all come across at least one such YouTube video that makes us want to watch it together with our friends and family members, right? With this new feature of YouTube Premium, subscribers can host Google Meet sessions with both, premium and free users and watch their favorite videos together. This feature will also soon be available for Facetime users on iOS via SharePlay.

If you are someone who likes to jump from watching one video to another, this new feature of YouTube Premium can come in handy for you. With this new feature, YouTube Premium subscribers can sync the videos they are watching across multiple devices which means that for example, if you are watching an episode of Shark Tank India and then switch to another music video in between, you can start your videos from where you left off across all devices including your phone, laptop or tablet.

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With a YouTube Premium subscription, you can download any of your favorite videos manually and add them to your offline library and view them later on. However now, YouTube has added a new feature to its YouTube Premium subscription. Subscribers will get YouTube’s Recommended videos automatically downloaded for them in their offline library when they have their wifi connection. So, if you forget about downloading your favorite videos from YouTube for offline streaming, no worries as YouTube would do it for you.

This is probably going to be one of the most useful features of YouTube Premium membership as with this new feature, subscribers can get to experience an even higher video quality. YouTube in its press release said that:

“To provide an even higher video quality experience for our Premium members, in the coming weeks we’ll be launching an enhanced bitrate version of 1080p HD video quality starting on iOS (and an experiment coming to the Web soon too.)”

“While all users will still have access to 1080p, this enhanced 1080p quality setting will look extra crisp and clear, especially for videos with lots of detail and motion.”

So this was all about sharing the all-new features of YouTube Premium subscription and what they mean. If you have any questions, feel free to put them below.

Source: YouTube official press release on YouTube Premium's new features!