YouTube has become the main source of entertainment as it contains a large number of quality videos. You can even make money on YouTube by creating quality videos.
Watching YouTube videos on your iPhone or iPad is quite fun and is one of most people’s favorite pastimes. Also, it is quite common to come across some unexpected error as sometimes YouTube starts behaving abnormally or it may also be your device that is why YouTube not working on your iPhone. No matter for the reason that YouTube is not playing videos, this guide will help you a lot.
Troubleshooting YouTube videos not playing on iPhone issue
The most common reason for YouTube videos pausing or not loading on your iPhone is the network you are connected to. Slow internet, unstable connection or no internet connection are the latent causes. You can try restarting your wireless connection or restarting your wireless router or modem.
You can also follow the steps below to reset your phone’s wireless internet connection:
- Tap on the ‘Settings’ option provided on the home page
- Then tap Airplane mode; flip the switch to turn it on
- Perform a soft reset on your phone while keeping airplane mode enabled
- Let your phone reboot and then go back to ‘Settings’ to turn off Airplane mode.
- Now, reconnect your device to Wi-Fi and then try to play YouTube videos on the app and see if it is working.
For the next step, restart the YouTube app and your iOS device. You may have made some changes to your iPhone and the YouTube app is glitching, but that can be resolved by simply restarting the app. Quit all running apps on your iPhone, including YouTube, and then clear the iPhone cache using a soft reset as follows:
- Press and hold the side/top button together with either volume button
- Then leave both buttons when you see the ‘Slide to power off’ option on the screen
- Drag the slider to the right to turn off your iPhone
- Let your phone power off for a few seconds and then press and hold the Side/Top button again until you see the Apple logo.
- Release the button and let your phone reboot completely.
- Now you can try to play videos on your iPhone to check if it works or not.
Next, to fix YouTube videos not working on iPhone, you need to remove app restrictions that can also prevent YouTube app from playing videos. Disable app restrictions on your device by following these steps:
- On the home screen, tap the ‘Settings’ button
- Then tap ‘Screen Time’
- Tap ‘Content & Privacy Restrictions’
- Enter your password to continue
- Finally, toggle the switch next to the ‘Content & Privacy Restrictions’ option
- This will disable the app restrictions.
You should routinely update the apps on your device to get important updates on time. If you don’t update them for a long time, this may be one of the reasons why YouTube won’t work on your iPhone device. You can set YouTube to automatically install updates, and if you haven’t, you can do it manually:
- Tap the ‘App Store’ icon from the home screen
- Tap the ‘Today’ tab
- Then tap on the user profile icon and you will see the account details.
- In the “Available Updates” section, tap “Update” next to the YouTube app.
- Let all the updates install completely and then reboot your iPhone to update the changes.
You may also need to reset all settings on iPhone to fix “YouTube videos won’t play” issue. This will restore all original settings and maybe the videos will start playing on your device.
- Tap ‘Settings’ on the home screen
- Press ‘General’
- Then tap ‘Reset’
- Tap the option to reset all settings.
- Enter the password to continue
- Tap the option to confirm your reset settings action
- This will restore all the original settings including your device’s network preferences and to use the features of your iPhone you will need to manually enable them and also reconnect your device to Wi-Fi; then try to play a YouTube video.
Troubleshooting additional errors when playing YouTube videos
There can be several other errors that may surprise you while playing a YouTube video. Here is a list of errors that won’t let you play YouTube videos on your iPhone and what you can do to fix them:
If you also get this error while playing YouTube videos on your iPhone or iPad, follow these steps to fix it:
- Sign out and sign back into your Google account
- Connect your device to Wi-Fi
- Make sure the YouTube app is up to date or update it now.
- You can even try uninstalling and reinstalling the YouTube app.
- Also, clear the cache and cookies of the YouTube app.
- Update iOS firmware and reboot your iOS device
Another error that can occur when playing YouTube videos in a browser on your iPhone is ‘Video not available’; to fix this:
- Please update the browser you are using
- Go to Settings and look for the desktop version
When a YouTube video is linked to a website and you try to play it on your iPhone, you may get the black screen error; Is there something you can do to fix it:
- Try to connect your device to a stable network
- Select the default YouTube video quality
- Make sure your browser is up to date and update it too
- Try to copy the link and play the video in the YouTube app.
Conclusion
Hopefully this guide will fix all your problems if YouTube is not working on your iPhone. Try to use the updated version of the app or the browser you are using to play the video and also make sure that your device is not infected with viruses.
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Categories: Technology
Source: SCHOOL TRANG DAI
