YouTube Premium offers several benefits that I didn’t know I paid for

I have been subscribed to Youtube premium For many years now, and yet I didn’t know what I paid exactly for. In my mind, I always associated a prize with an ad -free experience; Being able to get rid of all the annoyingly long and cancel the ads before or while watching a video is worth the price alone. Adding the family benefits to my husband, and the fact that this works everywhere, including on our TVs, makes it more a no-brainer.

What I didn’t know was that Premium packs some smaller but very useful benefits and features throughout the experience. And they … well, they, I’ve been addicted for years, and I had no idea they were not available for free viewers. I had taken them for granted, and it wasn’t until I used Youtube on a secondary free account that I noticed they were missing.

It’s been a few years since YouTube introduced ‘Continue to look at’ a feature I never thought I used so often until I didn’t have it anymore in my secondary account. What this does is really to pick up the video I watched one device and give the suggestion to continue it on the other. So if I check out Our practical with nothing phone 3 On my desk and I go away a bit, I can open YouTube on my phone to find the video already there at the bottom right, in line for me.

This works across phones, networks and TVs, saving me time to dig into my clock history or search to find the video I just watched. It also feels to free in a way, because I know I don’t have to stay in front of my TV or computer to finish watching a video; I can pick it up where I left my phone.

When I used my free YouTube account, this was not the option there. I immediately noticed that YouTube does not offer my break video as the first suggestion to watch, and I thought it was a mistake or a setting I had not activated, but after looking at it, I realized it was only available for YouTube Prpremium subscribers. This is what sent me into this rabbit hole, looking for other similar niches, but practical premium features.

I waited years for YouTube to get support for queue administration, and when it first came to the precisely, I was excited. Then I waited even longer to see it on mobile, and now I can’t imagine using YouTube without it. When I research a new tour destination, watch videos about a new phone or a job service, or deep diving in robotic mowers to choose one for my new garden, I tend to search the YouTube, browse all the results and queues the ones I want to look at. Then I lean back and enjoy myself as it goes through them one by one. Quits are like my personal curation system, and they have been integrated into my YouTube experience.

However, I assumed that just like queues on a desk, these were available to everyone. Turns out that Google has kept this option exclusive to Premium subscribers only on mobile phones and tablets. It feels like an alternative choice, and it sucks that free users don’t get it. The best way to bypass this is to create a temporary playlist and dump videos in it, watch them, and empty it when you are done, ie not as practical as a simple queue.

I do not always use premium checks because Google has made them annoying, and there is no way to force them to appear as standard on all videos. However, they come in handy when I watch a video while cooking or working. They are simple and generally large buttons that distill YouTubes essence to two rows of icons: playback checks and frequent actions.

For me, the most important speeds and quality are the pickers, because they usually require fiddling with pop-up windows and sub-men, and they become more accessible here. However, I wish Google did these customizable. I want to take a caption button over the stable volume, while others can replace similar button with a sleep lessons, for example.

There is still work to be done here, and I feel that premium checks have the potential to become something like Google Meet’s On-the-Go or Spotify’s car mode: Large and easy to strike important buttons that work well when you are busy doing something else. Until they are perfected, it may be good that premium control is not available to everyone.

I must have missed the note when youtube made downloads a paid feature. I still remember when the option was first launched and was available to everyone, both free and paid users. At that time, I didn’t have the YouTube premium membership yet, and I lived in Lebanon, so I used a lot of downloads in spotted reception areas. I remember that downloads of music videos were not possible for free users, but it seemed logical because it can replace Spotify, really.

Apparently, YouTube took this benefit away from non-paying users a few years later and made it a just first-class advantage. I lived in my posh premium world then, so I didn’t notice the change. What I think is sad, however, is that this also includes smart downloads, or YouTube’s tireless background work to keep a few videos available offline, so you can see anywhere, anytime.

Smart downloads have saved me from fatal boredom when I had been lazy and forgotten to download things to look at a trip, and that I was once stuck in an underground T -path for an hour with a very stained signal. Having these videos ready, even though I hadn’t cured them myself, saved my reason. I wish Google would offer smart downloads for free users as well, because it is a very random display experience that can come in handy, all without giving you control to download and see exactly what you want.

I had heard about the Watch-Together concept about Apple FaceTime, Plex, Jellyfin and other apps and services, but not on Google Meet. It turns out that Google already offers this, and you can start a surveillance session from your meeting call or start a meeting call while watching a YouTube video, Easy Peasy. I tested it briefly with my husband and we thought it was genius, so we plan to use this when one of us is gone on a work trip.

It is another strange advantage to bind to just a premium subscription, especially when Apple offers it in FaceTime for everyone. I also want to archive this under Google should offer it free, but also publish it more, and make it more accessible across message platforms like Google messages and WhatsApp.

This summarizes the weird and unexpected premium-just benefits that complement their ad-free and background game experience. Three of these-fortify to look at, queues in the mobile app and smart downloads-are features I use every day, and personally I will pay for the more than background games or photo-in-image. This deep dive has given me greater gratitude for my premium membership; Now, I know I get more for my money than just the removal of ads.