Watch YouTube Idiot box on your Tv set

Set up to scout your favorite programs on your big screen? To watch on select TV devices, yous can download our Television set app, watch by opening YouTube Telly within the YouTube app on your Television, or stream YouTube Idiot box from your mobile device or figurer using a supported device below.

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Cast YouTube Idiot box

You tin can lookout YouTube TV on your TV by casting or streaming to it from a mobile device or figurer.

Supported devices

Stream YouTube Tv set to your TV using:

  • Near Smart TVs
  • TV devices with AirPlay
  • AirPlay for Apple tree Television set
  • Smart TVs with Chromecast born (including Android TV devices)
  • Chromecast devices
    • Note: If you're using a kickoff generation Chromecast , yous may experience a higher charge per unit of errors. It may besides have upwardly to 30 seconds to open.
  • Google Smart Displays

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

Gear up & use your device

Yous can bandage to your TV using your mobile device or reckoner with these steps:

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

Notation: If your iPhone or iPad is on iOS 14 or later on, y'all'll need to requite YouTube permission to connect to streaming devices on your local network, such as your TV, so you tin can cast to your Boob tube. Larn how.

Play YouTube TV using Google Dwelling

Open YouTube TV inside of the YouTube app

On some devices, you lot can access YouTube Idiot box from the YouTube app directly. To practise this, first brand sure the YouTube app is downloaded on your device.

Note: This currently works on certain devices merely. Nosotros'll expand this to as many other devices as we tin can over fourth dimension.

  1. Open up the YouTube app on your device.
  2. On the left side navigation, scroll down to the bottom to find YouTube Tv.
  3. Select YouTube TV to open the app.
    • If it's your beginning fourth dimension doing this, you'll need to sign in to YouTube TV.

Picket with our Tv app

To meet which Smart TVs and media players yous can use to view YouTube Tv, cheque out this folio.

For instructions on how to set upwards YouTube Boob tube on some mutual devices, read below.

 Chromecast with Google TV

  1. Sign up for YouTube TV, if y'all haven't already.
  2. Start your Chromecast with Google Boob tube device. Note: YouTube TV will be preinstalled. If it has been removed, continue to stride iii.
  3. Go to the Apps tab.
  4. Search for YouTube Telly.
  5. Install the YouTube TV app.

Android Television set

  1. Sign up for YouTube TV if yous haven't already.
  2. Open up the Google Play Store on your Goggle box.
  3. Search for YouTube Television receiver.
  4. Download the YouTube TV app.

Xbox consoles

YouTube Television set is available on the post-obit Xbox devices: Xbox Series 10, Xbox Serial S, Xbox One X, Xbox 1 S, and Xbox One.

  1. Sign up for YouTube Tv set if you haven't already.Annotation: You can't currently sign up in our TV app, but you tin can elsewhere, similar in the YouTube TV mobile app.
  2. On your Xbox panel, go to the Xbox app store to download the YouTube Tv set app to your device.

Playstation devices

To install the YouTube Television receiver app:

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

To uninstall the YouTube Tv set app:

  1. Open the PlayStation dwelling house screen and become 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 upwards for YouTube TV if yous haven't already.
  2. Select the home push on your device's remote control.
  3. Select the "Apps" option to run across a listing of recommended apps.
  4. In the list of recommended apps, notice YouTube Television receiver.
  5. Salvage the app to your dwelling screen for easy use.

Notation: To make sure you tin access YouTube TV, update your Television's firmware to the latest version.

LG TVs

  1. Sign up for YouTube Television set if you haven't already.
  2. Select the home button on your device's remote control.
  3. Get to the LG Content Store.
  4. In the LG Content Store, search for "YouTube Telly" and download the YouTube TV app to your TV.
  5. Save the app to your dwelling house screen for piece of cake use.

Notation: To make sure you can admission YouTube Tv set, update your TV's firmware to the latest version.

Apple Goggle box

  1. Sign up for YouTube Television if you lot haven't already.
  2. On your Apple tree Television receiver, open the App Shop app from your Home screen.
  3. Search for "YouTube Television."
  4. Download the YouTube Goggle box app.

Roku

Fire Television receiver

  1. Sign upwardly for YouTube TV if you haven't already.
  2. Commencement your Fire TV device.
  3. Search for "YouTube Television receiver."
  4. Download the YouTube TV app.

Vizio SmartCast

  1. Sign upwards for YouTube TV if you haven't already.
  2. Go to your SmartCast home screen to encounter all bachelor apps in the app row.
    • Note: YouTube TV will be preinstalled.
  3. Select YouTube Tv in the list of apps.

TiVo Stream 4K

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

Xfinity Flex and XClass TVs

  1. Sign up for YouTube TV if yous oasis't already.
  2. Navigate to the "Apps" row.
  3. Click "View all" to see a full list of apps.
  4. In the listing of apps, detect YouTube TV.
  5. Select the YouTube Tv set app to install information technology.

Utilize our Tv set app

Sign in to YouTube Tv

To sign in:

  1. Open the YouTube Tv set app on your TV.
  2. On a reckoner or mobile device, become to tv.youtube.com/outset.
  3. Enter the activation code displayed on your Tv at tv.youtube.com/kickoff.
  4. Select the business relationship associated with your YouTube TV Base of operations Plan.
  5. Click Allow. You can at present start watching on your TV.

Sign out of YouTube TV

Yous can sign out of YouTube TV on any device where you're signed in, fifty-fifty if you no longer have admission to those devices.

To sign out of a device that y'all take access to:

  1. Open the YouTube TV app.
  2. Select your profile photo .
  3. Select Sign Out.

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

To sign out of ane business relationship merely:

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

If you want to sign out of YouTube TV on a device that you lot no longer take admission to:

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

Play YouTube TV using your device remote

You lot tin can use your device remote control to select programs and control 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/interruption/fast-forward/rewind to control playback while watching a program.
  • Switch between recently watched programs (including live TV, recordings, and on-demand programs) past selecting options below the video player.
  • Flip between alive channels using the channel up/down buttons on your device remote.
  • Open your library.

Sign upwards for an add together-on network using your TV device

Y'all can add a network to your YouTube Television set Base Plan using certain Telly devices. If you see a video with a lock icon, you tin select information technology to purchase.

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

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

  1. Buy with one-click on your Telly device past going to the add-on network and thenPurchase.
    • Note: To practice this activity, make sure you've allowed "quick purchases" on YouTube.
  2. Use a 2d device to complete the purchase. See the steps below.
    • Note: The 2d device must be a web browser, or mobile device.

If yous have non opted in to let "quick purchases" on YouTube, then you'll need to use a 2nd device to purchase the add together-on network:

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

Tips:

  • To buy using the ane-click process, you lot'll demand to opt in to "quick purchases" on YouTube. Turning on "quick purchases" volition make sure any device you lot're signed in to tin make YouTube purchases without extra verification.
  • For detailed instructions on how to turn on "quick purchases," get to this article.

Troubleshooting

If you're having problem with YouTube TV, check out these troubleshooting tips or send feedback to YouTube.

Tips & tricks:

  • If you're role of a family unit group, switch accounts by signing out of and in to a different account.
  • YouTube Television also works on other devices and platforms, like your phone and computer.

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