YouTube Plus 5.2b4

FIXES:

• Fixed Shorts overlay issues
• Fixed playback issues
• Fixed “Hold to speed” gesture in Shorts
• Fixed big gap under progress bar when action bar is disabled
• Fixed colored progress bar issues (now supports gradient color for watched progress)
• Fixed issue where some buttons under the player were not hiding
• Fixed transparent background in the “Explore” sidebar
• Fixed hiding options in YouTube sheet and added ability to hide the “Feedback” element
• Fixed crash on live videos when original captions were set as preferred
• Fixed “Remember loop mode” not saving correctly

NEW OPTIONS:

• Added option to hide “Hype” and “Stop Ads” buttons under the player
• Added option to hide YouTube snackbars (HUD messages in player)
• Added option to hide Products in Shorts
• Added option to remove Comment bar in Shorts
• Added option to remove Audio button in Shorts
• Added option to exclude auto-dubbed audio tracks from selection
• Added "Tap to seek gesture" in Player settings

UI IMPROVEMENTS:

• Added system theme support for YTPlus player toast (playback speed, brightness, volume)
• Removed vibrancy effect from YTPlus player toast
• Enabling iPad-style interface now also enables floating keyboard

YouTube Plus 5.2b3

• Attempts to fix playback issues on sideload

YouTube Plus 5.2b2

This update is primarily focused on improving stability and fixing major and critical bugs.

It includes the following changes:

• Introduced SponsorBlock Engine to handle sponsorblock api, sponsor segments and video interaction
• Added the ability to whitelist channels (SponsorBlock) and manage the list
• Added support for creating, saving, and editing private and public SponsorBlock UserIDs (more features coming soon)
• Reworked the player gesture toast, with a new compact mode
• Rewritten progress toast with support for swipe-to-dismiss gestures, also now used by SponsorBlock
• Added ability to open clipboard links (Long-press on the first tab → Open Link)
• Added an option to automatically check and open clipboard for any YouTube-related links (YTPlus Settings → Interface → Other)
• Fixed an issue where post images couldn’t be opened by tapping
• Fixed crashes while scrolling through the feed
• Fixed rare crashes during video playback
• Fixed crashes with Speed Controls in the player overlay
• Speed Controls interaction now resets the overlay auto-hide timer
• Fixed playback rate changing up to 5x, both, overlay controls and gestures
• Fixed issues related to hiding menu buttons
• Fixed overlay buttons not hiding correctly in Shorts
• Fixed tab bar issues
• Fixed minor bugs in the feed
• Improved gesture interaction within the player
• Fixed general overlay interaction issues
• Partially rewritten YTPlus settings for better stability and UX. Replaced oversized YT Sheets with compact menus, tapping a cell now shows a detailed alert
• Various minor internal code improvements and cleanups

YouTube Plus 5.2b1

• Completely rewritten downloader mechanism
• Added multi-download support
• Added video resumption (for now, you’ll need to disable automatic cache clearing and download video in the same quality)
• Added support for multiple toasts at the same time. You can rotate them by tapping on them
• Added the ability to hide the download progress with a long press on the "Stop" button
• Added the option to hide the "Create Remix" and "Listen to in YouTube Music" buttons in the video menu
• Added the ability to reorder videos in all sorting types of playlists (YouTube removed this feature)
• Added options to Save, Share and Copy image from Image viewer
• Now, a long press on the first tab of the tab bar opens Tab settings instead of showing/hiding the Library tab
• Fixed a bug that prevented hiding the Home tab
• Fixed a bug with the black Premium logo
• Fixed a bug with a black background in saved posts
• Fixed a bug where SponsorBlock notifications were not showing
• Fixed a bug with Shorts, removed new ads
• Removed even more ads
• Fixed remember loop
• Fixed captions and audio-tracks selection on newest YT versions
• Other minor fixes and improvements

YouTube Plus 5.1

• Added option to display mute button in player overlay

• Added option to display lock screen button in player overlay (#165)

• Added option to prefer stable volume when downloading media

• Added option to remove identifiers from sharing links

• Added option to download Shorts from the previews in feed

• Added option for embedding thumbnails into downloaded videos

• Added new tab support - Posts

• Added option to enable translucent tab bar

• Optimized tab bar for the new theme

• Added OLED dark keyboard (#201)

• Added progress bar theming: Solid color, Gradient color and Scrubber color selection (#214)

• Added option to remove Subscribe/Unsubscribe button under player (#162)

• Added options to remove Share, Thanks, Remix, Download, Clip, Save and Report buttons (#161)

• Added image viewer:

  • Show full-size post in image viewer
  • Show full-size profile picture in image viewer
  • Show video thumbnail in image viewer

• Advanced Shorts elements settings is back (some requested in #164):

  • Added options to remove Subscriptions, Live, Trends and Shopping buttons in paused states
  • Added options to remove Like, Dislike, Comment, Share and Remix buttons from actions bar
  • Added options to remove Suggestions, Username, Description, Source, Audio indicator and Follow button

• Improved downloading functions

• Improved YouTube Plus player menu

• Improved caption selection, fixed issues with Captions button in overlay (#203)

• Improved settings section for the new theme (#217)

• Fixed random crashes in feed when SponsorBlock segments for feed enabled (#183)

• Fixed random crashes in shorts when legacy pip mode in YouPiP enabled

• Fixed crashes when tapping on Share (#202)

• Fixed option that removes "Play next in queue" option in the menu (#230)

• Fixed bug related to stopping playback if auto-stopping was selected

• Fixed a bug that caused the app to crash when attempting to download a video (#229)

• Fixed shorts interface issue (#227)

• Fixed missing SponsorBlock segments in player bar and in feed (#224)

• Fixed Save or Share video sheet's layout on iPads

• iPad mini-player style now brings back old mini-player (#215)

• iPhone mini-player style now brings back legacy iPhone mini-player (#215)

• More posts to hide

• Removed more ads

• Removed Old UI option since it broken completely (#220)

• Remove inline comment and Remove videos under player options moved to the player settings

• SponsorBlock enabled by default

• Special thanks section

• Now you can choose to not show Incompatible tweaks pop-up for the current version of YouTube Plus

• Added Korean localization support (Thanks to @pshyomin)

• Added Polish localization support (Thanks to @marcinmajsc)

YouTube Plus 5.0.2

• Added Italian localization support (#176) (Thank you to @basketshoe)
• Added an option to always select the original language captions (#167)
• Fixed an issue where enabling the "Hide more topics" option caused a blank home page (#159)
• Fixed an issue where manually scrolling Shorts would scroll two at a time (#163)
• Fixed a crash issue when selecting a Short's preferred video quality (#172)
• Fixed a bug with ambient mode (#170)

YouTube Plus 5.0.1

• Added option to show notifications for the SponsorBlock
• Added Watch history and Watch later to the Startup tab list
• Attempt to fix more topics issue (#159)
• Attempt to fix posts not removing under the player (#158)
• Added option to disable ambient mode
• Added more community posts to remove

YouTube Plus 5.0

General:

• New settings UI
• Added SponsorBlock
• Added clear cache on startup option (YouTube Plus preferences)
• Added Turkish localization support

Downloading:

• Added audio-track selection for downloading
• Added option to download and embed captions, including auto-generated and translated captions
• Added post-download actions
• Added download button placement selection (Overlay, under player or both)

Navbar:

• Fixed rare crash issues on removed YouTube logo
• Improved 'Hide cast button' option

Feed:

• Added option to remove live videos from the feed
• Added option to remove mix playlists from the feed
• Added option to remove horizontal feed

Player:

• Added preferred audio track selection support
• Added preferred captions selection support
• Added option to remember loop mode
• Added left side, right side and horizontal gestures

Shorts:

• Added quality selection support
• Added playback mode selection support
• Added option to limit shorts count in feed (queue)
• Added option to remove live videos from feed (queue)
• Fixed crashes on newest youtube versions

Tabbar:

• Revamped tab bar section
• Added reordering tab support
• Added 'Watch later' and 'History' tabs
• Improved removing indicators option

Interface:

• Improved Oled theme
• Added option to remove pinned guidelines in comments
• Added interface style selection support
• Added minibar style selection support

YTLite (Plus) v4.0.1

• Added ability to play videos in external players (System, Infuse, VLC)

• Added option to keep Shorts videos in the Subscriptions tab (#91)

• Added ability to open shorts as regular videos using YTPlus menu button in Shorts

• Added ability to enable/disable auto-skip shorts option using YTPlus menu button in Shorts

• Added option to disable Autoplay end-screen recommendation (Enabling this option will also disable autoplay next video feature)

• Improved Shorts downloading which directly downloads best mp4 video

• Improved YTPlus button compatibility with the latest YouTube versions

• Improved YTPlus button compatibility with Inline muted playback (Player that displayed on video thumbnail)

• Fixed blank space issues on the big screens (#105)

• Fixed crashes when trying to show share sheet on iPad devices

• Updated localization strings (#106)

• Corrected some localization strings (#112)

• Fixed an issue that caused the search bar to disappear (#117)

YTLite (Plus) v4.0

• Downloading feature

• Tweak UI improvements

• Added some player gestures

• Added Import/Export settings feature (Tweak preferences)

• Added Old/New UI toggle (Version spoofing)

• Added options to remove community posts and inline comment under the player

• Added OLED dark mode support

• Added option to speed up Shorts

• Lite version temporarily disabled

• Fixed blank screen issue (Thanks to @PoomSmart for the https://github.com/PoomSmart/YouTube-X)

• Removed version spoofing on extra speed options and classic video quality as unneeded

• Fixed issues related to Disable auto-caption feature

• Fixed crashes related to Auto-quality feature