Watch YouTube TV on your TV

Fix to lookout your favorite programs on your big screen? To watch on select Telly devices, you can download our Idiot box app, watch by opening YouTube Television within the YouTube app on your Tv set, or stream YouTube TV from your mobile device or computer using a supported device below.

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Cast YouTube TV

You tin sentry YouTube Tv set on your TV by casting or streaming to it from a mobile device or computer.

Supported devices

Stream YouTube TV to your TV using:

  • About Smart TVs
  • Goggle box devices with AirPlay
  • AirPlay for Apple tree TV
  • Smart TVs with Chromecast built-in (including Android Television receiver devices)
  • Chromecast devices
    • Note: If you're using a first generation Chromecast , you may experience a higher rate of errors. Information technology may likewise accept up to 30 seconds to open.
  • Google Smart Displays

Learn more about setting upwardly a Chromecast and more devices that work with YouTube Telly.

Fix & use your device

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

  1. Connect your mobile device or computer and streaming device to the same Wi-Fi network.
  2. Open YouTube Television on your mobile device or estimator.
  3. Tap CastInactive cast extension  or AirPlay in the superlative correct.
  4. Select your device.
    • YouTube Tv will open.
    • If you're playing a video, information technology should automatically brainstorm playing on your TV.
  5. Use your mobile device or calculator to command YouTube TV on your TV.

Annotation: If your iPhone or iPad is on iOS 14 or later, you'll need to give YouTube permission to connect to streaming devices on your local network, such as your TV, and then you tin can bandage to your TV. Acquire how.

Play YouTube TV using Google Home

Open YouTube Boob tube inside of the YouTube app

On some devices, you lot can access YouTube Telly from the YouTube app directly. To practise 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 we can over fourth dimension.

  1. Open the YouTube app on your device.
  2. On the left side navigation, ringlet down to the lesser to find YouTube TV.
  3. Select YouTube TV to open the app.
    • If it's your get-go time doing this, you'll demand to sign in to YouTube Tv set.

Watch with our TV app

To encounter which Smart TVs and media players you can use to view YouTube Tv set, check out this page.

For instructions on how to set up upwardly YouTube TV on some common devices, read below.

 Chromecast with Google Tv

  1. Sign up for YouTube Television receiver, if yous haven't already.
  2. Start your Chromecast with Google Boob tube device. Note: YouTube Boob tube volition be preinstalled. If it has been removed, continue to step 3.
  3. Become to the Apps tab.
  4. Search for YouTube TV.
  5. Install the YouTube TV app.

Android TV

  1. Sign up for YouTube TV if y'all haven't already.
  2. Open the Google Play Store on your TV.
  3. Search for YouTube TV.
  4. Download the YouTube TV app.

Xbox consoles

YouTube TV is available on the following Xbox devices: Xbox Series 10, Xbox Series S, Xbox One X, Xbox One S, and Xbox I.

  1. Sign up for YouTube TV if you haven't already.Annotation: Yous can't currently sign up in our Boob tube app, but y'all can elsewhere, like in the YouTube Boob tube mobile app.
  2. On your Xbox console, go to the Xbox app shop to download the YouTube TV app to your device.

Playstation devices

To install the YouTube Television app:

  1. Open the PlayStation Store on your Playstation device.
  2. Search for "YouTube Tv set".
  3. From the apps section of the results, click the YouTube TV listing.
  4. Click download / install.

To uninstall the YouTube Television receiver app:

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

Samsung TVs

  1. Sign up for YouTube Goggle box if y'all 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, detect YouTube TV.
  5. Save the app to your home screen for easy utilize.

Annotation: To brand sure you lot tin access YouTube Television set, update your TV's firmware to the latest version.

LG TVs

  1. Sign up for YouTube TV if you oasis't already.
  2. Select the home button on your device'southward remote command.
  3. Go to the LG Content Store.
  4. In the LG Content Store, search for "YouTube Goggle box" and download the YouTube TV app to your Tv set.
  5. Save the app to your home screen for easy use.

Note: To make sure you can access YouTube Goggle box, update your Idiot box's firmware to the latest version.

Apple Tv set

  1. Sign up for YouTube Idiot box if you haven't already.
  2. On your Apple TV, open the App Store app from your Home screen.
  3. Search for "YouTube Television."
  4. Download the YouTube Television app.

Roku

Fire Television receiver

  1. Sign up for YouTube Idiot box if y'all haven't already.
  2. Start your Fire Boob tube device.
  3. Search for "YouTube Telly."
  4. Download the YouTube TV app.

Vizio SmartCast

  1. Sign up for YouTube Television set if you haven't already.
  2. Go to your SmartCast habitation screen to run into all available apps in the app row.
    • Note: YouTube TV will be preinstalled.
  3. Select YouTube Boob tube in the list of apps.

TiVo Stream 4K

  1. Sign up for YouTube Tv if you lot haven't already.
  2. Select Apps from the home screen.
  3. Open up the Google Play Store and search for YouTube Goggle box. Or, exercise a voice search for YouTube Goggle box using the Google Banana.
  4. Select the YouTube TV app to install information technology.

Xfinity Flex and XClass TVs

  1. Sign upward for YouTube TV if you haven't already.
  2. Navigate to the "Apps" row.
  3. Click "View all" to see a total list of apps.
  4. In the list of apps, find YouTube TV.
  5. Select the YouTube TV app to install it.

Use our Television set app

Sign in to YouTube Boob tube

To sign in:

  1. Open the YouTube Television app on your Tv set.
  2. On a computer or mobile device, go to tv.youtube.com/outset.
  3. Enter the activation lawmaking displayed on your TV at tv.youtube.com/beginning.
  4. Select the account associated with your YouTube TV Base Plan.
  5. Click Allow. You can now start watching on your TV.

Sign out of YouTube TV

You lot tin can sign out of YouTube TV on whatsoever device where yous're signed in, fifty-fifty if you lot no longer have access to those devices.

To sign out of a device that you have admission to:

  1. Open the YouTube Tv set app.
  2. Select your contour photo .
  3. Select Sign Out.

Note that this action will sign yous out of YouTube TV for all accounts on this device. If yous want to go on using YouTube Television on this device, you lot'll have to sign in once again.

To sign out of i account only:

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

If you want to sign out of YouTube TV on a device that you no longer have access to:

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

Play YouTube Television using your device remote

You tin use your device remote command to select programs and command video playback in our Television app.

Use your remote control to:

  • Explore the full program guide to see upcoming programs on your favorite channels.
  • Play/break/fast-forward/rewind to command playback while watching a program.
  • Switch between recently watched programs (including live Television receiver, recordings, and on-demand programs) by selecting options below the video player.
  • Flip betwixt live channels using the channel up/downwards buttons on your device remote.
  • Open your library.

Sign up for an addition network using your Boob tube device

Yous can add together a network to your YouTube Boob tube Base Program using sure TV devices. If you run into a video with a lock icon, you can select it to buy.

Note: Xbox and Apple TV devices do not back up this.

There are ii ways to make a purchase for an improver network:

  1. Purchase with one-click on your TV device by going to the add-on network and thenPurchase.
    • Note: To practice this action, make sure you've immune "quick purchases" on YouTube.
  2. Use a second device to consummate the purchase. See the steps beneath.
    • Note: The second device must exist a spider web browser, or mobile device.

If you accept not opted in to allow "quick purchases" on YouTube, then you'll need to use a second device to buy the improver network:

  1. Search for the add-on network or channel using your Boob tube device.
  2. Select the thumbnail for the addition.
  3. Follow the instructions to go to a unique URL on a 2nd device.
    • Note: Yous'll need to do this using a web browser, or a mobile device.
  4. ClickPurchase.
  5. Become back to your living room device, and clickDone.

Tips:

  • To purchase using the one-click process, you'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 actress verification.
  • For detailed instructions on how to turn on "quick purchases," go to this article.

Troubleshooting

If y'all're having trouble with YouTube TV, cheque out these troubleshooting tips or send feedback to YouTube.

Tips & tricks:

  • If yous're function of a family unit group, switch accounts by signing out of and in to a different account.
  • YouTube TV also works on other devices and platforms, like your phone and estimator.

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