YouTube Users Experiencing UI Instability
Users are consistently reporting a range of frustrating UI issues with YouTube, including disappearing buttons, distorted visuals, and loading errors. These problems affect various devices (mobile, desktop, TV) and appear intermittently, often resolving temporarily with restarts or account changes, but frequently returning. The platform's support message about device compatibility suggests a wider systemic problem.
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“Go to App Store, find YouTube, click open. The MiniPlayer will work again until it doesn’t… super annoying but it works”
“It’s a recent bug that many people are experiencing, I’m just waiting until it’s fixed since I use guest mode.”
“Or is it a glitch? I can't really replicate when it happens submitted by /u/Nejikins151 [link] [comments]”
“The only way I get mine to work again is by force closing and trying again. It’s so inconsistent, like every other time I use the app for the last…since they added it”
“For those of you who had their topic/category bar disappear, this is what I did to fix it: - Delete Search and Watch History - Turn off Search and Watch History - Turn Search and Watch History back on - Watch a video - Refresh These options should be located in your account settings under “Your Data in YouTube” submitted by /u/WasiAttorney [link] [comments]”
“For years I was able to minimize the YouTube video(PiP) up until a few days ago? I don’t have premium as it wasn’t exclusive to it. Was the most recent update take this away? Lmfao submitted by /u/Frequent-Bill-7126 [link] [comments]”
“When I interact with the icons on the right (Such as the comments icon) in its strange design form, it always labels it as "Feature not available for this video" Why does this happen and does this happen to others as well? 🤔 submitted by /u/ThomasNet1st [link] [comments]”
“Not sure what I could've run out of storage for. Maybe my "thumbs up" list though clicking that doesn't consistently trigger this. It seems to just occur a little bit into a video. Is this the website reporting that the video buffer is full? submitted by /u/primus202 [link] [comments]”
“Most of us doing/attempting this, IT DOESN’T WORK! YOUTUBE NEEDS TO FIX THIS AHHHH!”
“Dunno if this is an issue with Reddit or the YouTube app, but for the past week, whenever I try to share a YouTube video to Reddit, adding the link to the post no longer automatically adds the video title as the title of the Reddit post; it just leaves it blank. Seems to happen on Mobile AND PC. I can't find any reference to an issue like this online, but I also can't figure out what could be causing it on my end. submitted by /u/Gorotheninja [link] [comments]”
“I updated my YouTube app and now the MiniPlayer’s not working. It was working fine before I updated it and I tried everything to get it to work. Is it a bug that comes with the update? submitted by /u/Newyearshining45 [link] [comments]”
“iPhone or Android? If it's iPhone... This just tends to happen from time to time. If it's Android then that's weird (although, you can't PiP Members Only Videos and some music stuff if you don't have Premium)”
“Doesn't happen on pc or mobile, only on xbox (and maybe ps5). It seemingly happens on random videos, mainly ones I've watched before. Being going on for about 2 weeks now Also tried to pick a funny video as an example submitted by /u/JereKane [link] [comments]”
It’s that weird update or bug fix they did a couple of weeks ago.
“https://preview.redd.it/wuske7aijgdh1.png?width=736&format=png&auto=webp&s=7c5b797f5a168a63725d6c50123f2b5e53de8994 fyi: i do have the youtube redux extension installed. whenever i go to look up any videos, it refuses to show the list of suggested searches, or whatever its called. i've looked at dozens of posts, both here and elsewhere, and so far nothing's worked. if anyone has encountered or fixed this issue, please tell me how. submitted by /u/Ambitious_Touch_3”
“Whenever I watch YouTube on my desktop, I usually have the video open in picture-in-picture mode. I haven’t had any problems with it until today but now whenever I try to pause/play any video in the PIP window, it doesn’t do anything. However for whatever reason, this doesn’t seem to be an issue if the video is a part of a playlist. Anyone know why this is happening or any potential solutions? Ps: I’m using the web browser version, not the app. submitted by /u/Luchalad [link] [”
“hi all :) i have no idea what to do. i’m trying to watch a video and it just displays an exclamation point and “this video may be inappropriate for some users.” i don’t have restricted mode on, my age on my google/yt account is above 18, and i’ve switched accounts and logged out like three times !!! how do i fix this? submitted by /u/gasolineaddiction [link] [comments]”
“ugh I posted this last week and now it's on my iPad as well. I just using the desktop verison on Safari”
“Was there a recent update to the YouTube Apple TV app? Anytime I try to go forward or back a few seconds by clicking left/right on the remote I have to click like 3 times for it to move the timeline 10seconds. Wasn’t like that a few weeks ago, what gives? submitted by /u/comacow02 [link] [comments]”
“Recently I've been dealing with an annoying issue. I have no clue if it's a big or if I just missed some obscure security update or what. Basically the info area that shows video name, comments and so on is black with black text while the rest of the UI is normal. I only use light mode and have confirmed I have light mode selected multiple times. I might be missing something but it's driving me insane. submitted by /u/SnakeKafuu [link] [comments]”
“Whenever I’m scrolling shorts some videos will go blank no like button no comment button just the video. How can I fix this? submitted by /u/Difficult-Photo-7686 [link] [comments]”
“Has anyone else noticed within the past few days that YouTubes has changed the way you move forwards / backwards on a videos timestamps (within the progress bar)? It’s such a slight UI change but it has become so annoying. Instead of simply swiping the console’s control toggle backwards / forwards once and it instantaneously beginning to move through the videos timestamps, you have to now do it twice to initiate the fast forwarding / rewinding process. It’s the little changes like this that make”
“The new layout annoys me. I keep occationally ending up on this new empty tab when starting the app or closing/going back from a video. What is even supposed to be here? Why is it just empty? Also, i preffered where the subscriptions used to be submitted by /u/FluffySheepAsleep [link] [comments]”
“Same for me. And yes, quite annoying when it goes to that tab as a default home. I haven't yet figured out what triggers that behavior.”
“Every time I click on the YouTube app icon, it won’t let me start it. I have to delete it and restart my phone. I am annoyed. submitted by /u/NoPianist7807 [link] [comments]”
“As in like, for example, your on a playlist, you click on a video within that playlist and immediately shrink the playlist down so that its a tiny tab that everything disappears? ONLY WORKS ON MOBILE submitted by /u/CraftyPlum1990 [link] [comments]”
“Channel, subs and the channel button is gone. Restarting youtube website does not fix it Happening to everyone in the house, only on desktop Phone youtube app is normal submitted by /u/FlameinfirenFFBR [link] [comments]”
“also on the TV app there is a heart instead of like for long form videos. Only this videos ui was different and the others still following the redesign from the dislike button removal submitted by /u/revive_the_cookie [link] [comments]”
“help i have all my settings set up as i wanted, no shorts, no infinite scrolling, everything in the zooming glass or whatever its called section everything stayed the same, but its still not working. i even had 5 colums for each row set up but i can only see 4, and the infinite scrolling thing is not disabled, and shorts still appeared and i had to click the 3 dots on the short row on youtube to show fewer shorts, when as you can see i have them disabled in untrap. can i reverse the update or ma”
“Why are the buttons so big and why are the comments and channel not opening when you click on them submitted by /u/idiotic_ar123 [link] [comments]”
“Every time I am trying to open the YouTube app it’s just force close it every time, I tried reinstalling but it only worked for a couple of hours and came back. I tried every thing but nothing worked. I’m on an IPhone 15 submitted by /u/Weird_Expression3316 [link] [comments]”
“This only started about 3 days ago, is this a bug? submitted by /u/aclaasr [link] [comments]”
“Can I just say it? I hate the record button in the bottom, middle screen of the iOS YouTube app. Maybe it’s just me, it has no purpose because I don’t but there’s more to it. I’m always accidentally hitting it by accident, then when I go back to the video, the audio is muffled and I have to close and reopen the whole app Really wish we could just customize the bottom bar to our liking. That’d be sweeeet Anyone else? submitted by /u/Ferngullysitter [link] [comments]”
“Been using YoutubeLite+ (driftytweaks iOS client) Videos won't load or anything, I was wondering if this was a Client User issue, or a me issue submitted by /u/Vaulto_35 [link] [comments]”
“Google tv app on various devices Anyone else just not seeing selectable links on end screens any more? Like no channel curated videos or subscribe buttons? Been like this for a couple of weeks, and then just recently ive started getting a pop up with a "suggested video" starting with a 15 second countdown, and no option to disable this. Any clues? submitted by /u/miowiamagrapegod [link] [comments]”
“Also it's not registering the inputs properly if you're typing too fast. Please fix 🙏🙏”
“It happened twice so far. The video stops out of nowhere and gets rewound to 10-20 minutes from the start. both were longer than an hour. It has never happened to me before this week. Did this happen to anyone else? It reminds me of a similar glitch that had happened to me, but that one did not rewind the video, but it stopped it for few moments and then it restarted it with horrible echoy sound quality. The weird thing is the video kept the glitch even if I closed it and opened it again on my m”
“Okay, so maybe thing “Video is Unavailable” thing might be a bug on my end because I know these videos are there when I’m logged in but suddenly all of them are gone when I’m logged out. And it’s only on main Safari app, not a popup when on Discord or social media. submitted by /u/Tomo_Super_Fan15 [link] [comments]”
“The YouTube Logo in the top left corner is white for me. Not an issue when browsing in incognito-mode, and I have tried turning all of my plugins off, and clearing my cache. I am using Firefox. submitted by /u/Skuffies [link] [comments]”
“I usually click the like button on almost every video of the channels I'm subscribed to, so I noticed this quickly. Obviously, the new UI has been a like button in this spot for a few weeks now (at least), but today I spotted this weird glitch where apparently YouTube is only letting me dislike the video instead of like it? Is this a bug or is YouTube doing this for no real reason as usual? submitted by /u/_b0ba_tea_bean_ [link] [comments]”
“So, I had 391 subs on both earlier; now I have 392 on my page and 366 in YT Studio on both desktop and app? What's happening? No subs ever been bought or anything like that incase anyone thinks that submitted by /u/Equal_Arm_3091 [link] [comments]”
“Started about two weeks ago. My favorite list/ribbon on top of the app screen is gone. (News, Music, etc.) I keep having to clear cache and data. Then I get the ribbon back, but it is gone within an hour!!! Also, when I type News in the search field, I only get FOX channel clips and some CBS!!! I have never subscribed to either! The "glitch" might just be intentional, not sure! I have a galaxy s24 and have checked for YouTube app updates. Is there a permanent solution? submitted”
“No matter the video, this whole area is grayed out. When I scroll down, it goes about 3 rows of recommended videos that are greyed out before other videos start working. Is anyone else dealing with this bug? is there something wrong with my account? I can't seem to find anything about this online. I have a fold 6 if that helps. Thanks for any help. submitted by /u/alenfishman [link] [comments]”
“They also removed the option to search for videos from the last hour, just a few weeks ago.”
“i had this issue since this morning. shorts is fine but if i wathc videos and fullscreen the title isnt there. its normally above submitted by /u/Taste_Of_Loneliness [link] [comments]”
“Why does this keep happening? none of the buttons work (they just say feature unavalible) except for the upvote and downvote buttons submitted by /u/thatguy1000000000 [link] [comments]”
“That issue's been there for a while why isn't there an update to fix it? submitted by /u/Practical-Pay-7775 [link] [comments]”
“Hi! When I sort videos on a channel by popularity, then do it again after refreshing the page or coming back after watching one of the videos, I may see a strange glitch... multiple loading wheels appear instead of one, and below it often sorts and displays the same results again (e.g. 60 mil viewed videos instead of 12 mil as it's should) I wonder, has anyone else had this UI issue? I've been havin' it for long, even like in 2023 submitted by /u/paul_405 [link] [co”
“After that video, the recent UI (without the dislike button) came back (I can dislike, but can't comment) submitted by /u/CasinoSirol333 [link] [comments]”
“I've been having this issue for about a week now. Comments on videos look like they're loading, but they never show up. The front page does the same thing when I try to scroll down and see more videos. Turning off my adblock does nothing. submitted by /u/freshstartermenu [link] [comments]”
“Try this: @-moz-document domain("www.youtube.com") { ytd-rich-item-renderer:has(.ytBadgeShapePromoted), ytd-rich-item-renderer:has([class*="promoted"]), yt-lockup-view-model:has(.ytBadgeShapePromoted), yt-lockup-view-model:has([class*="promoted"]), ytd-video-renderer:has(.ytd-badge-renderer[class*="promoted"]), ytd-compact-video-renderer:has(.ytd-badge-renderer[class*="promoted"]) { display: none !important; } } Just to be transparent, I used AI”
“Why is my YouTube only showing 6 live streams? Usually, I see 50+ and can scroll way down. Anyone know how to fix this? I like discovering indie streamers I'm not subscribed to, but they aren't showing up for me anymore. submitted by /u/EuphoricAd4756 [link] [comments]”
“I have noticed a bug over the last week also where if I start playing a video and then pause it and go up and do something else for a short while and come back to it When I resume the video the video plays but the audio does not for about 10 seconds. if I however immediately click somewhere else off of that screen say the Windows button which removes focus from the screen the audio immediately comes back. the audio won't come back at all until I've completely removed focus from that tab”