You may have noticed it, the YouTube app has not been working on certain smartphones and tablets for a few days. Here is the explanation and a solution to bypass the problem.
Like many people, you surely use the YouTube mobile application to listen to music and watch videos on your phone or tablet. However, you may have a little problem. Indeed, many users report connection problems and error messages indicating that “This version of YouTube is obsolete” On Android turning on devices.
So far, it was possible to get around this problem by erasing the data from the application, but this is no longer the case. Some users have even tried to reinstall YouTube on a smartphone rewarded, but nothing helps. The problem goes beyond the launch of the application. Users who try to connect meet server errors (error 400), which prevents any authentication in Google accounts.
This is not a bug. In reality, the YouTube application has simply become incompatible with the operating systems that are too old, less than Android 8, for technical and security reasons. All devices under 7.1.2 and previous versions that cannot be updated are therefore left on the tile. It’s not really surprising because these versions are starting to date. Android 7.0 (Android Nougat) was released in August 2016 and it evolved until September 2017.
In itself, it is not very serious for smartphones users, because most people change them fairly regularly. On the other hand, it is a little more annoying for the tablets. Indeed, these devices are often used for common tasks within the household, which do not require a state -of -the -art technology. Many families only use them to surf the internet, listen to music or put a video for children. Tablets can therefore easily last ten years before you need to be changed!
Suffice to say that the impossibility of using the mobile application of YouTube is a big problem. Especially since Google is not content to block it, it injects restrictions on the Google accounts themselves, which prevents any bypassing bypass, including by developing modified versions of YouTube.
If you have this problem, you can try to go through a web browser by going to M.youtube.com. The site is certainly less practical than the mobile application, but it still seems to work. But for how long? We will have to get used to investing in a new device (smartphone or tablet), minimum Android 8. Or hope very hard that third -party developers will find new bypass solutions, but it is not won.