Picket YouTube TV on your Television

Fix to spotter your favorite programs on your large screen? To lookout on select Television receiver devices, you lot can download our Telly app, watch by opening YouTube TV inside the YouTube app on your Television receiver, or stream YouTube Goggle box from your mobile device or computer using a supported device beneath.

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Cast YouTube TV

You can watch YouTube Goggle box on your Television set by casting or streaming to it from a mobile device or computer.

Supported devices

Stream YouTube Boob tube to your TV using:

  • Most Smart TVs
  • Idiot box devices with AirPlay
  • AirPlay for Apple Boob tube
  • Smart TVs with Chromecast built-in (including Android Idiot box devices)
  • Chromecast devices
    • Note: If you're using a beginning generation Chromecast , you may feel a higher rate of errors. Information technology may also have up to xxx seconds to open.
  • Google Smart Displays

Larn more than nearly setting up a Chromecast and more devices that piece of work with YouTube Idiot box.

Set up & employ your device

You tin can bandage to your Telly using your mobile device or computer with these steps:

  1. Connect your mobile device or reckoner and streaming device to the same Wi-Fi network.
  2. Open YouTube TV on your mobile device or computer.
  3. Tap CastInactive cast extension  or AirPlay in the top correct.
  4. Select your device.
    • YouTube TV will open up.
    • If y'all're playing a video, information technology should automatically begin playing on your TV.
  5. Use your mobile device or figurer to control YouTube Goggle box on your Idiot box.

Note: If your iPhone or iPad is on iOS 14 or later, y'all'll need to give YouTube permission to connect to streaming devices on your local network, such every bit your TV, so you can cast to your Idiot box. Acquire how.

Play YouTube Television set using Google Habitation

Open YouTube TV inside of the YouTube app

On some devices, you can access YouTube TV from the YouTube app directly. To do this, first make sure the YouTube app is downloaded on your device.

Note: This currently works on certain devices but. Nosotros'll aggrandize this to as many other devices every bit we can over time.

  1. Open the YouTube app on your device.
  2. On the left side navigation, curl down to the bottom to find YouTube TV.
  3. Select YouTube Television to open the app.
    • If information technology's your starting time time doing this, you'll demand to sign in to YouTube TV.

Sentry with our TV app

To see which Smart TVs and media players you tin use to view YouTube Tv, check out this folio.

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

 Chromecast with Google TV

  1. Sign up for YouTube TV, if you oasis't already.
  2. Start your Chromecast with Google Tv device. Note: YouTube Tv will be preinstalled. If it has been removed, go along to step 3.
  3. Go to the Apps tab.
  4. Search for YouTube Television receiver.
  5. Install the YouTube TV app.

Android Television set

  1. Sign upwards for YouTube TV if you oasis't already.
  2. Open the Google Play Store on your Tv set.
  3. Search for YouTube TV.
  4. Download the YouTube Telly app.

Xbox consoles

YouTube Television receiver is bachelor on the post-obit Xbox devices: Xbox Series Ten, Xbox Serial Due south, Xbox One X, Xbox One S, and Xbox 1.

  1. Sign upwards for YouTube Tv if y'all haven't already.Note: You can't currently sign up in our TV app, simply you can elsewhere, like in the YouTube TV mobile app.
  2. On your Xbox console, get to the Xbox app store to download the YouTube TV app to your device.

Playstation devices

To install the YouTube TV app:

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

To uninstall the YouTube TV app:

  1. Open the PlayStation habitation screen and go to "Idiot box & Video".
  2. In the apps section, highlight the YouTube Tv set app.
  3. Printing the "Option" button on your controller.
  4. From the bill of fare, select Delete.
  5. Select OK.

Samsung TVs

  1. Sign up for YouTube TV if you lot haven't already.
  2. Select the home push button on your device'southward remote control.
  3. Select the "Apps" choice to meet a list of recommended apps.
  4. In the list of recommended apps, find YouTube Television receiver.
  5. Save the app to your dwelling house screen for easy use.

Note: To brand sure you can admission YouTube Idiot box, update your TV's firmware to the latest version.

LG TVs

  1. Sign upwards for YouTube Television if you haven't already.
  2. Select the dwelling house button on your device'south remote control.
  3. Go to the LG Content Store.
  4. In the LG Content Shop, search for "YouTube TV" and download the YouTube TV app to your TV.
  5. Save the app to your habitation screen for easy use.

Annotation: To brand sure you tin can admission YouTube Boob tube, update your TV's firmware to the latest version.

Apple TV

  1. Sign up for YouTube Idiot box if yous haven't already.
  2. On your Apple Goggle box, open the App Store app from your Habitation screen.
  3. Search for "YouTube Television receiver."
  4. Download the YouTube Tv set app.

Roku

Burn down TV

  1. Sign up for YouTube TV if you haven't already.
  2. Start your Fire Tv set device.
  3. Search for "YouTube TV."
  4. Download the YouTube TV app.

Vizio SmartCast

  1. Sign up for YouTube Tv if you lot oasis't already.
  2. Go to your SmartCast home screen to see all available apps in the app row.
    • Note: YouTube Television set will exist preinstalled.
  3. Select YouTube Goggle box in the list of apps.

TiVo Stream 4K

  1. Sign up for YouTube Boob tube 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, practice a voice search for YouTube TV using the Google Assistant.
  4. Select the YouTube Goggle box app to install it.

Xfinity Flex and XClass TVs

  1. Sign up for YouTube TV if you haven't already.
  2. Navigate to the "Apps" row.
  3. Click "View all" to run into a total listing of apps.
  4. In the list of apps, observe YouTube Boob tube.
  5. Select the YouTube Television receiver app to install it.

Use our Television receiver app

Sign in to YouTube TV

To sign in:

  1. Open the YouTube Telly app on your Television.
  2. On a figurer or mobile device, get to television.youtube.com/start.
  3. Enter the activation lawmaking displayed on your Boob tube at television receiver.youtube.com/start.
  4. Select the account associated with your YouTube TV Base Program.
  5. Click Let. You can at present offset watching on your TV.

Sign out of YouTube Television receiver

Y'all can sign out of YouTube Goggle box on any device where you're signed in, even if you no longer accept access to those devices.

To sign out of a device that y'all accept admission to:

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

Note that this action volition sign you out of YouTube TV for all accounts on this device. If you want to keep using YouTube Goggle box on this device, yous'll have to sign in once again.

To sign out of one account but:

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

If you desire to sign out of YouTube Goggle box on a device that you no longer accept access to:

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

Play YouTube Goggle box using your device remote

You can use your device remote control to select programs and control video playback in our Goggle box app.

Utilize your remote control to:

  • Explore the full program guide to meet upcoming programs on your favorite channels.
  • Play/pause/fast-forward/rewind to control playback while watching a program.
  • Switch betwixt recently watched programs (including alive TV, recordings, and on-demand programs) by selecting options beneath the video player.
  • Flip between live channels using the channel up/down buttons on your device remote.
  • Open your library.

Sign up for an add-on network using your TV device

You lot can add a network to your YouTube TV Base Program using certain Telly devices. If you see a video with a lock icon, you tin select it to buy.

Annotation: Xbox and Apple Boob tube devices exercise not support this.

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

  1. Purchase with ane-click on your TV device past going to the add together-on network and thenPurchase.
    • Notation: To do this activity, make sure you've allowed "quick purchases" on YouTube.
  2. Use a second device to complete the purchase. See the steps below.
    • Annotation: The second device must exist a web browser, or mobile device.

If you have not opted in to allow "quick purchases" on YouTube, and then you'll need to use a 2nd device to buy the addition network:

  1. Search for the addition network or channel using your TV device.
  2. Select the thumbnail for the add-on.
  3. Follow the instructions to get to a unique URL on a second device.
    • Note: Y'all'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 one-click process, y'all'll need to opt in to "quick purchases" on YouTube. Turning on "quick purchases" volition brand sure whatsoever device you're signed in to tin make YouTube purchases without extra verification.
  • For detailed instructions on how to plow on "quick purchases," go to this article.

Troubleshooting

If you're having trouble with YouTube Boob tube, check out these troubleshooting tips or send feedback to YouTube.

Tips & tricks:

  • If y'all're role of a family 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 computer.

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