Lookout man YouTube TV on your Television set

Ready to watch your favorite programs on your big screen? To picket on select Telly devices, you tin can download our TV app, picket by opening YouTube TV inside the YouTube app on your TV, or stream YouTube TV from your mobile device or calculator using a supported device below.

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Cast YouTube Idiot box

You tin watch YouTube Television set on your TV by casting or streaming to information technology from a mobile device or computer.

Supported devices

Stream YouTube Television set to your Television set using:

  • Most Smart TVs
  • TV devices with AirPlay
  • AirPlay for Apple Telly
  • Smart TVs with Chromecast built-in (including Android Telly devices)
  • Chromecast devices
    • Note: If you lot're using a first generation Chromecast , you may experience a higher rate of errors. It may also take up to 30 seconds to open.
  • Google Smart Displays

Acquire more about setting up a Chromecast and more devices that work with YouTube TV.

Gear up up & use your device

You can cast to your TV using your mobile device or computer with these steps:

  1. Connect your mobile device or computer and streaming device to the aforementioned Wi-Fi network.
  2. Open YouTube Goggle box on your mobile device or computer.
  3. Tap CastInactive cast extension  or AirPlay in the meridian right.
  4. Select your device.
    • YouTube TV will open.
    • If you're playing a video, it should automatically brainstorm playing on your TV.
  5. Use your mobile device or computer to control YouTube TV on your TV.

Note: If your iPhone or iPad is on iOS xiv or later, you'll need to requite YouTube permission to connect to streaming devices on your local network, such as your TV, so you can bandage to your TV. Larn how.

Play YouTube Television using Google Home

Open YouTube Telly within of the YouTube app

On some devices, you can access YouTube Television from the YouTube app directly. To do this, first make sure the YouTube app is downloaded on your device.

Note: This currently works on certain devices only. We'll expand this to as many other devices as nosotros can over time.

  1. Open up the YouTube app on your device.
  2. On the left side navigation, scroll downward to the bottom to find YouTube TV.
  3. Select YouTube TV to open the app.
    • If it's your first time doing this, you'll need to sign in to YouTube Goggle box.

Watch with our Tv set app

To encounter which Smart TVs and media players you tin use to view YouTube Idiot box, check out this page.

For instructions on how to set upwards YouTube TV on some common devices, read beneath.

 Chromecast with Google Tv set

  1. Sign up for YouTube Television set, if you haven't already.
  2. Kickoff your Chromecast with Google TV device. Note: YouTube Boob tube volition be preinstalled. If it has been removed, continue to pace three.
  3. Go to the Apps tab.
  4. Search for YouTube Goggle box.
  5. Install the YouTube Tv app.

Android TV

  1. Sign upward for YouTube TV if yous haven't already.
  2. Open the Google Play Store on your TV.
  3. Search for YouTube Boob tube.
  4. Download the YouTube TV app.

Xbox consoles

YouTube TV is bachelor on the following Xbox devices: Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, Xbox One X, Xbox Ane S, and Xbox One.

  1. Sign upward for YouTube Television if you lot haven't already.Note: You can't currently sign up in our TV app, only you lot tin can elsewhere, like in the YouTube TV mobile app.
  2. On your Xbox panel, get to the Xbox app shop to download the YouTube TV app to your device.

Playstation devices

To install the YouTube TV app:

  1. Open the PlayStation Store on your Playstation device.
  2. Search for "YouTube TV".
  3. From the apps department of the results, click the YouTube Television receiver list.
  4. Click download / install.

To uninstall the YouTube TV app:

  1. Open up the PlayStation home screen and go to "TV & Video".
  2. In the apps section, highlight the YouTube TV app.
  3. Printing the "Option" button on your controller.
  4. From the menu, select Delete.
  5. Select OK.

Samsung TVs

  1. Sign upward for YouTube TV if you haven't already.
  2. Select the home button on your device'due south remote control.
  3. Select the "Apps" option to see a list of recommended apps.
  4. In the list of recommended apps, find YouTube TV.
  5. Salvage the app to your domicile screen for piece of cake use.

Note: To make certain you tin can access YouTube Tv, update your TV'south firmware to the latest version.

LG TVs

  1. Sign upwardly for YouTube Tv if you haven't already.
  2. Select the domicile button on your device's remote control.
  3. Go to the LG Content Shop.
  4. In the LG Content Store, search for "YouTube Television" and download the YouTube TV app to your Telly.
  5. Save the app to your home screen for easy use.

Note: To brand sure you can access YouTube Idiot box, update your TV'south firmware to the latest version.

Apple tree TV

  1. Sign up for YouTube Tv set if y'all haven't already.
  2. On your Apple TV, open the App Store app from your Dwelling house screen.
  3. Search for "YouTube Telly."
  4. Download the YouTube Television set app.

Roku

Burn down TV

  1. Sign up for YouTube Television if you oasis't already.
  2. Get-go your Burn down TV device.
  3. Search for "YouTube TV."
  4. Download the YouTube TV app.

Vizio SmartCast

  1. Sign upwardly for YouTube Telly if you haven't already.
  2. Go to your SmartCast home screen to see all bachelor apps in the app row.
    • Notation: YouTube TV will be preinstalled.
  3. Select YouTube Television in the list of apps.

TiVo Stream 4K

  1. Sign up for YouTube Tv if you haven't already.
  2. Select Apps from the home screen.
  3. Open the Google Play Store and search for YouTube Tv. Or, do a vocalization search for YouTube Television receiver using the Google Assistant.
  4. Select the YouTube TV app to install it.

Xfinity Flex and XClass TVs

  1. Sign up for YouTube TV if yous haven't already.
  2. Navigate to the "Apps" row.
  3. Click "View all" to run across a full list of apps.
  4. In the listing of apps, find YouTube Tv set.
  5. Select the YouTube TV app to install it.

Utilise our Television app

Sign in to YouTube TV

To sign in:

  1. Open the YouTube TV app on your TV.
  2. On a computer or mobile device, go to television.youtube.com/kickoff.
  3. Enter the activation code displayed on your Television receiver at telly.youtube.com/starting time.
  4. Select the account associated with your YouTube Tv set Base Program.
  5. Click Allow. Yous tin can now starting time watching on your Idiot box.

Sign out of YouTube TV

Y'all can sign out of YouTube TV on whatsoever device where you're signed in, even if you no longer have access to those devices.

To sign out of a device that you lot have access to:

  1. Open the YouTube Tv set app.
  2. Select your profile photograph .
  3. Select Sign Out.

Notation that this activeness volition sign you out of YouTube TV for all accounts on this device. If you lot want to keep using YouTube TV on this device, you'll have to sign in again.

To sign out of one account only:

  1. Open the YouTube Tv app.
  2. Select your profile photo .
  3. Select Switch account.
  4. Select Remove under the account you'd like to remove.

If you desire to sign out of YouTube Telly on a device that you lot no longer have access to:

  1. Get to https://myaccount.google.com/permissions.
  2. Curlicue to "YouTube TV" and click Remove access.

Play YouTube TV using your device remote

You tin can utilise your device remote control to select programs and command video playback in our TV app.

Use your remote control to:

  • Explore the full program guide to see upcoming programs on your favorite channels.
  • Play/pause/fast-forward/rewind to control playback while watching a program.
  • Switch between recently watched programs (including live Tv set, recordings, and on-need programs) by selecting options below the video role player.
  • Flip betwixt live channels using the channel upwardly/downward buttons on your device remote.
  • Open your library.

Sign upward for an add-on network using your Tv device

You can add a network to your YouTube Television receiver Base Programme using certain Television devices. If yous come across a video with a lock icon, y'all tin select information technology to buy.

Note: Xbox and Apple Tv devices do not support this.

There are ii ways to make a purchase for an add-on network:

  1. Purchase with one-click on your TV device past going to the improver network and thenPurchase.
    • Note: To exercise this activity, make sure you've allowed "quick purchases" on YouTube.
  2. Use a second device to consummate the purchase. See the steps below.
    • Note: The second device must be a web browser, or mobile device.

If you take non opted in to permit "quick purchases" on YouTube, and so y'all'll need to employ a second device to buy the improver network:

  1. Search for the improver network or channel using your TV device.
  2. Select the thumbnail for the addition.
  3. Follow the instructions to go to a unique URL on a 2d device.
    • Note: You'll demand to practise this using a spider web browser, or a mobile device.
  4. ClickPurchase.
  5. Go dorsum to your living room device, and clickDone.

Tips:

  • To buy using the 1-click process, y'all'll need to opt in to "quick purchases" on YouTube. Turning on "quick purchases" will make certain any device you're signed in to can make YouTube purchases without extra verification.
  • For detailed instructions on how to plow on "quick purchases," go to this article.

Troubleshooting

If you lot're having trouble with YouTube Television, check out these troubleshooting tips or send feedback to YouTube.

Tips & tricks:

  • If you're part of a family grouping, switch accounts by signing out of and in to a different account.
  • YouTube Tv set too works on other devices and platforms, like your phone and reckoner.

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