These non-immersive videos play in a floating window that looks like a giant screen when you’ve got the phone attached to your face.If you see a ' Not on same network' warning and are not connecting through the internet remotely: You can use this same option to watch a regular video in VR, but only via the menu button. The motion of your phone lets you move your head to look around inside the video. Technically, all this option does is boot the video player into split left and right images. Either way, it works just fine in a Daydream headset, too. There’s also a shortcut in the video settings when you tap the menu button and select View in Cardboard. Search for a 360-degree video and tap the cardboard icon in the lower-right corner. All you need is a Google Cardboard viewer or a Daydream headset. They work on desktop and mobile devices, but the experience can be fundamentally better on mobile thanks to easily accessible VR. YouTube has a fair number of 360-degree videos these days.
Turn that on, and YouTube will only stream in standard definition when you’re not connected to Wi-Fi. At the top is a toggle to Limit mobile data usage. Open the YouTube app settings and go into the General settings. Luckily, YouTube has a setting that can prevent that from ever happening.Įke more video out of your monthly data cap with this feature. However, those videos can use more data than you might expect, and that could put you over your monthly data cap. Watching a few YouTube videos can be a good way to kill a couple minutes while on the go. Select that if you think you might use background play in such a way. The alternative: YouTube also supports only streaming background audio when your device is connected to headphones or an external speaker. If you don’t want that to happen, go to YouTube app settings and go into Background and downloads. When you’re logged in with a Red account, simply hit the home button when watching a video and the audio will continue in the background. Keep the audio going while you do other things. Alternatively, you can turn it off because it can be a little annoying. If you’ve got Red, you can take advantage of this feature. However, it’s part of the YouTube Red subscription. Users had to pester Google for years to get a native background playback option, and it exists now. Sometimes you don’t need to see the video part of a YouTube video because the audio is actually what’s of interest.
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