YouTube app now includes 480p and 1080p streaming quality options

June 14, 2014

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Need to boost your streaming quality when using the YouTube application? Or even lower the streaming quality? Now you can. The YouTube app now lets you choose exactly what resolution to stream content in. From the start, all devices are set to ‘Auto' with other options sitting behind the scenes (or the cog within the app). There were a few options already but it topped out at 720p. YouTube has raised the maximum to 1080p and added a low 480p as an additional option.

The new streaming quality options do not seem to be through an update in the Play Store. Instead, it could be something YouTube hit the switch on. If it is from an update, we have the download links after the break.

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Justin Herrick Author

Born and raised in New Jersey, Justin is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University where he studied marketing with a focus on digital marketing. He's very talkative and enjoys discussing anything from technology and sports to video games and television. As for Justin's current device rotation, he carries around the Google Pixel and Nexus 9. In the rare case that his phone or tablet is not in his hand, he is either flicking through cards on his Moto 360 (2015) or typing away on the Microsoft Surface Book. Justin is patiently waiting for the day that Google replicates the Galaxy Nexus with modern day specifications.

4 comments

Dylan says:

June 14, 2014 at 10:30 PM

It stops at 720 actually no 1080P stream on app

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1. Justin_Herrick says:
  
  June 14, 2014 at 11:02 PM
  
  Whole point of the post — they are rolling it out to users.
  
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  1. jay says:
    
    July 28, 2014 at 7:40 AM
    
    Well its a month after this post and I still haven’t got it on nexus 7 2013
    
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    1. c'mon_google says:
      
      July 30, 2014 at 10:20 AM
      
      Me neither :< N7 2013 here too… I'd need 480p because adsl speed is not enough for 720p/1080p and 360p is pure bullsh*t. I have 50mbps in my other house tho. I already had those options while using cm11 but when I got back to stock, they lost. I can't use cm11 because multiple users won't work with it…
      
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