YouTube Viewers Hit by Constant Buffering

“https://preview.redd.it/6s6x5nk1tenh1.png?width=3840&format=png&auto=webp&s=ac55bd176e8314bb99ba2948791bb872bf1d5eba I have a 2.5Gbps Fiber connection but I can't seem to watch YouTube at any resolution due to buffer health 0.00. Any way to resolve this? submitted by /u/Vertigo103 [link] [comments]”

“I'm trying to watch a video but it randomly stops and returns to the beginning and downgrades the quality to 360p and it locks it (grays out the option). And this also happens when ad finishes playing... submitted by /u/Ordinary_Car_Driver [link] [comments]”

“This is an issue that seems to happen every so. I have YouTube Premium, I'm on a Pixel 10 Pro XL, and this only seems to happen when connected to Bluetooth. I'll start a video I want to listen to and, a few seconds after the screen locks, the video stops playing. I tried enabling my notifications for YouTube but, that didn't help. Any suggestions? submitted by /u/NomadicDragon [link] [comments]”

“I discovered that the iPhone's CPU or GPU lacks native support for YouTube's video codec, causing it to drop frames to prevent audio stuttering. You having the same problem, right? Just want to make sure that it’s not just my phone's problem.”

“I haven't experienced that one, but I have had moments where I click on a video and the screen is fully black (I use the app) while the audio plays just fine. I will sometimes require to go back to the home screen and retry the video, or I need to close the app entirely... It's strange to me.”

“I dont understand whats happening. It continues to buffer and load every 5 seconds even though my internet is very fast. I logged out and in again. I deleted the app and redownloaded. What can i do to fix it? submitted by /u/Inevitable-Ice-5061 [link] [comments]”

“Anyone else experienced constant buffering on every video on youtube lately? they will play for a little bit and then start buffering, which is weird because internet connection is working fine and speeds are good, but for some reason it always buffers for the past like week or so, another way to annoy adblock users or something? submitted by /u/PilkyO2RoundHead [link] [comments]”

“Greetings. I'm using a Poco X3. For the past couple of weeks, after an app update, the YouTube app has been lagging in the feed, at something like 3-5 fps. When you go to your library, watch later, or just scroll through your feed. But the videos themselves play fine. I've deleted the app and reinstalled it. I cleared the cache later, but it didn't help. It works fine in the Brave browser, just like on my PC. submitted by /u/daz1371 [link] [comments]”

“For about a year now I have noticed the shorts getting stuck loading for looooooooong times like 90% of the time, making a 30s short into a 3min watch. At first I thought it was my phone, but it was also happening to my wife. So I thought it could be something to do with my ISP, but it also happens while using mobile data. I recently had to travel and stay with my sister to take care of her, and she had the same thing happening on her phone. And it does not matter if I reinstall, clear cache or”

“Has anyone experienced this?. Everytime I try to cast to TV (the YouTube App) It works, but if you select a different video, it automatically disconnected, and have to select the device to cast again. [ UNLESS what you casted is in a playlist, then itll remain linked ] Before It was so easy, You connect to whatever device it is, a TV, fire stick, etc, then play whatever. And its ALWAYS connected until you disconnect it manually. There has to be a way to keep it connected. This is ridiculous. &#3”

“The new feature is working but the video fas forward abd backward is not working, audio only moving but video still loading from starting can this be please fixed?”

“First the app refuses to play videos on phone, then last night I’m only getting suggested videos from over 10 years ago, nothing new. Then right now on the app on phone is loading weird, like the ui is all out of place. Anyone else? submitted by /u/FLcitizen [link] [comments]”

“I wonder if anyone else has encountered this problem recently. I run two samsung androids, a S23FE and an older Note10 lite. Of late the queue has stopped advancing and stops once an individual video ends and only offers to replay it. Clearing the cache AND the data gets it going again but it stops again not long thereafter. Has anyone got any suggestions as I've tried all the Gemini suggestions to rectify this to no avail. submitted by /u/macolebrook [link] [comments]”

I have the same problem! Will try your workaround link, thank you so much.

“I watch YouTube on my tv almost exclusively. It seems like every week and a half my whole feed is wiped clean and i have to rebuild it and it’s very annoying. Can I fix this and how? submitted by /u/PuzzleheadedPass2849 [link] [comments]”

“This is so slow. Like, it's not my internet connection, I have 1GB symmetrical FiOS. I even did a speedtest. submitted by /u/muffin_usagi [link] [comments]”

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“Anyone else experience Youtube just pausing out of nowhere on mobile? I'll be listening or watching a video and it just pauses. Not buffering, it quite literally just pauses and I have to manually press the unpause button. submitted by /u/Thatedgyguy64 [link] [comments]”

“I don't understand why and it's getting Annoying. I would be playing a video and the video just skips ahead any random amount of seconds, sometimes even 110 or 120, and i don't understand why. Am i the only one facing this issue on mobile? submitted by /u/Mr_Memeadda [link] [comments]”

“Is it an Android TV, or are you using a Fire TV Stick or something? Need a bit more info. This isn't exactly the right sub for this.”

“I bought an iPhone 13 Pro recently and noticed that every time I watch videos in 60 fps, they randomly stutter, or sometimes after a few minutes drop to 30 fps for a few seconds. This really pisses me off since I bought a pretty powerful device that is supposed to handle 1080p 60 fps with no problems. It doesn’t show any frame drops in the debug menu, and it plays perfectly at 60 fps on my previous phone, the Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro. submitted by /u/7ewn [link] [comments]”

“It's driving me nuts!! I'm on mobile trying to rewind a video when guess what!? I can't because youtube is being a D! If I wanted to see the recommended videos I would get out of the video im currently watching and scroll down stop trying to make updates no one wants! submitted by /u/DeadBeautieRinn1 [link] [comments]”

“It has to be, it lags whenever I scroll down on my tablet on YouTube. Like sometimes the thumbnails are set like the phone but then I scroll down and see what OP has before I scroll back up and its no longer like the phone version. I'm terrible at explaining stuff so forgive me. But it defiantly has to be a bug and I hope they fix it soon. Just looks ugly as hell.”

“I don't think this is a huge issue, nor is it an issue with the app itself; however I don't know how to solve it. I use a personal hotspot as wifi for my pc, and it's been great with everything, even Harbor. However, with Harbor, it only streams normally in a specific time of day (morning until noon), then by noon the speed caps at 60kb at most. Even when trying all sources, the speed is capped only for streaming, while other things I use internet for work completely fine and perfect even. Someo”

“On the YouTube app it keeps hiding videos from me but restrictions are off and to fix it I just uninstalled all the updates and it works for a little but then it does it again example here is penguinz0 recent post submitted by /u/WhitePony0620 [link] [comments]”

“hi, i am atm in a camping in france, due to a storm the mobile network if off in the area. there is wifi in the camping, but this kind of connection is really slow. loading reddit homepage take around 30s. i went to youtube on this network, more than 1m to load the home page. try to launch a video, ofc it’s slow and quality is low. however, the add at the start of the video load faster than the homepage, run without any pause, and with high quality. how youtube can achieve to run this video so f”

“For about a week Youtube has been almost unwatchable on iPad for me. Videos constantly stop and buffer for a while. It is like I am on extra slow internet connection. It works fine on PC. And on the same iPad all other streaming works fine. All speed test show internet connection as fast (200-300Mb) and stable. Tried: - Updated Youtube app. (it fixed that bug with disappearing video description and comments) - Force close the app and restart iPad - Reinstall the app - Change iPad DNS setting (as”

“YouTube itself loads fine but as soon as I watch a video the time bar doesn’t move, the video buffers or lags, the time itself isn’t counting, random part in the video repeats itself like it’s rewinding every 2 minutes etc. I don’t know what’s happening! submitted by /u/awesomehuder [link] [comments]”

“For me be cause the buffering isn't fast enough, once it reaches the limit of the buffer the video loops to the start of it endlessly.”

“After 1 minutes of watching a video or a short, it loads for a sec then lowers quality permanently to I'd say around 200-450, is anyone else having this problem on the MOBILE app?? submitted by /u/Spooky-Shadow-Bonnie [link] [comments]”

“Yeah it's gotten horrible recently. I can't even switch between videos without needing to reconnect to the Chromecast... otherwise the current video keeps playing on Chromecast while the new video plays on my phone at the same time.”

“A few days ago, youtube started refusing to connect despite my internet working fine, this also only happens on my laptop and not on my phone. I can load youtube just fine and search videos with no problems but it does this everytime i click on a video, first it was every now and then and now it's happening every single time. I dont have a vpn and wont turn off my adblocker because the sheer number of ads i get before the video even starts. Does anyone know why this is happening and how I ca”

“To preface this is win 11 25H2. I've been struggling to fix a problem with YouTube buffering when pausing and resuming on windows that was persistent across both chrome and Firefox and wanted to share my findings. Basically tried everything else normally recommended: cache clearing, any ad blockers off, changing media.suspend-bkgnd-video.enabled to false in Firefox, and turning off and on hardware acceleration in browser. nothing worked until I disabled hardware accelerated GPU scheduling in”

“Very recently Youtube has been constantly buffering when I open a new video. If I reload the page, then it works just fine. I'm on Firefox and I use Ublock Origin. I notice the "adds blocked" number on the UO extension badge go up every time it tries to buffer which happens fairly rapidly. Is there a fix for this? submitted by /u/stirfry213 [link] [comments]”

“I am on a newer device, both in terms of model and recently bought. I have no adblock, because I dont want to hurt creators revenue. Every single video I watch has extreme lag after ads, sometimes not even having the UI after. The only fix so far has been to close the app (using browser yt), and restarting it. No extensions of any kind, only one tab open. Sometimes it will black screen as well. Why might this happen? submitted by /u/SilentPossibility438 [link] [comments]”

“YouTube Shorts when the internet is slow: freezes and doesn't unfreeze until the internet comes back AND you swipe back and forth to the homepage a bunch of times”

“For probably like 3 months now I've noticed on mobile that I keep getting random frame drops during videos (not during ads) but lately it's been absolutely HORRIBLE. I've cleared cache, turned off ambient mode, closed and reopened the app and nothing is working. is ANYONE experiencing this too because I feel like im going crazy and if so is there a solution submitted by /u/SnooStrawberries9866 [link] [comments]”

“For days now, YouTube takes forever to load, keeps crashing, and is showing even more ads than usual. It’s happening across multiple accounts and devices. Does anyone know what’s going on? submitted by /u/SolitaryTeaParty [link] [comments]”

“I keep getting a message that something went wrong on both apps. Not even my downloads work. When I check the outage websites, it says users haven’t reported any issues. I’ve already deleted both apps & re-downloaded them and nothing works. And the internet is definitely not the issue as YouTube works on browser submitted by /u/CyberEcstasy [link] [comments]”

“I’ve recently been having issues with YouTube videos in Safari (iOS 26.6). I normally use the YouTube web site in Safari instead of the YouTube app (because, let’s face it it’s terrible). But lately, the videos played via Safari will occasionally hang, and pressing Pause and then Play won’t resume playback. The only way to get the video to start playing again is to completely reload the page, which restarts the video at the beginning. Is anyone else having issues like this? The conspiracy theori”

“I thought it was just YT struggling as Shorts Buffer. Longer videos not loading and in general the app being a pain to use. But the millisecond I hit pause on my VPN, it loads instantly. They is a recent change within the last couple of months as it has been working fine for years before hand. Is this YT try to push people away from VPNs to help reinforce the Online safety Act? It's becoming very frustrating and I don't know how I can complain to YT about it submitted by /u/M”

“I tried deleting my cache and nothing happened and I even reset my device but nothing works and this only happened in my main account not others submitted by /u/buttery_battery [link] [comments]”

“And it's still like this for me, but I still haven't made effort to allow updates on my ipad.”

“Videos will not load. Even after a browser reset/PC restart. Shorts work fine with no issue (ofc lmao) submitted by /u/Forbesh22 [link] [comments]”

“Is anyone else having this problem on iPhone? Some videos work completely normally, but when I open certain videos in the YouTube app, I get “Something went wrong” and the video won’t play. Things I’ve already tried: Updated YouTube to the latest version Deleted and reinstalled the app Restarted my iPhone Same Wi-Fi connection The weird thing is that the exact same videos work normally in Safari , so it seems like an issue with the YouTube iOS app. I also got a prompt to report a bug right after”

“Not only on mobile (IPhone 14) where I get very odd YouTube issues like this on the screen where I’m watching this video but it looks frozen and timer is not moving but also on PC. For example yesterday when using it on my Debian system I encountered bug when I clicked on a video and page did not react anyhow like I haven’t even pressed anything. Second pressing worked fine. Can’t remember every issue but this started really bothering me. submitted by /u/Kaseffera [link] [comme”

“Yes, iPhone 17. It is most likely server updates for the new viewer count policy, most likely not rolled out into a mass update for all of YouTube users rendering the website totally unusable.”

“Is anyone having issues with the mobile app where no videos will load. No matter what I do, all I get is that something went wrong and the video is unavailable. submitted by /u/DalekSupreme26 [link] [comments]”

“I am having this issue both on IPhone 17PM and IPad Pro M5. What I noticed is that a loophole to watch videos with this current bug is to download them through premium and that lets you bypass the something went wrong notice.”

I use Revanced and had this same issue. Uninstalling and reinstalling the app fixed it.

“It will briefly play a video before it stops abruptly and says video unavailable. Working on my laptop just fine. Ive deleted the app, reconnected to wifi, changed to mobile data the whole 9 yards but nothing is working. submitted by /u/Tannicleader [link] [comments]”

“Every time I try opening a video on my phone, it refuses to load. My internet connection is fine, and YouTube works on my tv, but for some reason it doesn’t want to cooperate on my phone. I’ve tried resetting my phone, uninstalling and reinstalling YouTube, and updating both that app and google. I don’t have any Adblockers either. Is it just me or is YouTube down? Any help would be greatly appreciated. submitted by /u/Comfortable-Papaya29 [link] [comments]”

“I'm not sure if this is a setting or a glitch. The phone is an S26 Ultra and I have YouTube Premium. The video plays and if the screen is turned off and the video finishes the moment the screen wakes up and the phone is unlocked the video replays on its own. On my iPhone after a video finishes it sits at a screen with a suggestion for the next video and doesn't do this . Autoplay is off and doesn't matter if PIP is on or off it does it. Any ideas what's causing this? A few months”

“Is this happening to anyone else? I’ve been experiencing this all day. I’ve tried different videos, restarting the app, changing accounts, deleting and reinstalling the app, I can’t watch anything on my phone. submitted by /u/RenGR_ [link] [comments]”

“https://preview.redd.it/az1asof5lxjh1.png?width=720&format=png&auto=webp&s=c99370b18f015fb995e38542b86903f925aaed5d Turning phone off(completely), openning/closing Youtube app, nothing works. (Samsung Galaxy A12) submitted by /u/CoshgunC [link] [comments]”

“I have the video playing. I go to a different app. Audio cuts out. Go back to YouTube. Audio resumes, but now I've missed a lot of the video. Yes I have premium. submitted by /u/Forsaken_Site_2268 [link] [comments]”

“anyone else get this? it happens when i try to go backwards or forwards ten seconds. the screen goes black and doesnt play and when i exit out it shows this. my phone isnt on desktop mode, ignore the video choice lol submitted by /u/BobCreeper24 [link] [comments]”

“When I pause a video on phone to try and forward the video 2 minutes or something I can't because of videos appearing how can I fix this submitted by /u/Excellent-Manner-180 [link] [comments]”

“i have android and last few weeks it loads so slow, wtf is happening. I didn't change anything btw”