Connect your devices to watch YouTube on your smart Boob tube

There are many ways you can connect your devices to watch YouTube on your smart Television receiver or streaming device. Connecting your devices allows yous to command YouTube on Tv set using your telephone, estimator, or tablet. You can also have advantage of many YouTube features from your personal device, including:

  • Share or save videos
  • Add to or modify the videos in your queue
  • Fast forward or rewind videos
  • Participate in live conversation
  • Mail service and interact with comments

You tin link your devices using:

  • Pairing
  • Casting
  • A TV code

If you're not using a Tv set code or computer to connect, make sure you have the YouTube app downloaded. Casting from youtube.com in a mobile browser is not currently supported.

Notes:

  • Cast works with any Tv device that tin can support YouTube on Tv set, not just Chromecast.
  • If you're a YouTube Television set member looking to sentry YouTube TV on your boob tube, bank check out the YouTube Television set Help Centre for more info.
  • Some features may not be bachelor with supervised accounts on YouTube. Larn more than.

Watch YouTube on your Television set and pair it with your phone or tablet

Pairing lets you extend your YouTube on Goggle box experience to your telephone or tablet. When yous're signed in with the same account, information technology links your smart Television set or streaming device to your telephone or tablet.

Android

Pairing with your smart TV or streaming device

  1. Brand sure your smart TV or streaming device is set up up and the YouTube app is open.
  2. On your phone or tablet, open the YouTube app.
  3. Make sure you're signed in to the same Google Account on both devices.
  4. A pop-up will open on your telephone or tablet, asking you to connect to YouTube on your Telly.
  5. Tap Connect.
    1. If you lot don't get a pop-upwards, or you accidentally dismiss it, connect using Cast or TV code.
  6. The video player will open in the app on your phone or tablet, showing that you're connected to your Tv set or streaming device.

Unpairing from your smart TV or streaming device

  1. Tap Cast .
  2. Then tap DISCONNECT.

iPhone & iPad

Pairing with your smart TV or streaming device

  1. Make sure your smart TV or streaming device is prepare and the YouTube app is open.
  2. On your iPhone or iPad, open the YouTube app.
  3. Brand sure you're signed in to the same Google Account on both devices.
  4. A pop-up will open up on your iPhone or iPad, request you lot to connect to YouTube on your TV.
  5. Tap Connect.
    1. If you don't become a popular-upwardly, or you accidentally dismiss it, connect using Cast or Goggle box code.
  6. The video player will open in the app on your iPhone or iPad, showing that you're connected to your TV or streaming device.

Unpairing from your smart Goggle box or streaming device
Tap Bandage .
So tap DISCONNECT.

Connect to your smart Telly or streaming device using Cast


The Cast feature lets you use your telephone, tablet, or computer to command the YouTube experience on Tv.

Notation: Casting from youtube.com in a mobile browser is not currently supported. To cast from a mobile device or tablet, make sure to download the YouTube app.

How to watch YouTube on TV with Chromecast, Cast, and Airplay

Connecting to your smart TV or streaming device

  1. Make sure your smart Television or streaming device is gear up and the YouTube app is open up.
  2. Make sure your computer is continued to the aforementioned Wi-Fi network as your smart TV or streaming device.
  3. On your reckoner, in a web browser, get to youtube.com.
  4. Select the video y'all want to picket and click Bandage in the video histrion.
  5. Select the device you lot desire to cast to and wait for it to connect. In one case continued, the video will play on your TV or streaming device.

Disconnecting from your smart Television receiver or streaming device

  1. Click Cast .
  2. Click Terminate casting to disconnect.

Connect to your smart TV or streaming device using a Goggle box code

Afterward linking your phone or tablet, yous tin can watch YouTube on your Boob tube when yous're not connected to Wi-Fi. Y'all tin then use your phone or tablet to play content on your Idiot box or streaming device.

Note: Connecting with a TV lawmaking is not available with computers. If you'd like to use a computer to connect to your TV or streaming device, you'll demand to connect using Cast.

How to utilise your phone or tablet to activate YouTube on Tv set with a Goggle box code

Link devices with a Tv code

Disconnect & reconnect your devices

Unlink devices that were linked with a Idiot box code

If you no longer want to utilise your telephone or tablet with your smart TV or streaming device, you tin unlink them. Once a device is removed, y'all take to apply a new code to re-link the device once more.
You tin remove linked devices using your:

  • Smart Tv set or streaming device, OR
  • Phone or tablet

Note: You lot can't unlink devices individually now. Unlinking a unmarried device will remove all linked devices.

Unlink on your Smart Television or streaming device

  1. On your Smart TV or streaming device, open the YouTube app.
  2. Go to Settings .
  3. Select Linked devices.
  4. Select Unlink all devices to unlink all devices at in one case.

Unlink on your telephone or tablet

  1. On your phone or tablet, open the YouTube app.
  2. Tap your profile picture .
  3. Tap Settings .
  4. Tap Full general.
  5. Tap Scout on TV.
  6. Tap Delete Devices.
  7. Tap DELETE to remove the linked Smart TV or streaming device.

Browsing YouTube on your smart TV or streaming device

Use the YouTube app as a remote

Use your Smart TV'due south remote

  • Endeavour to use your Goggle box remote to control your bandage feel. Most TV remotes are supported without further setup.
  • If your remote doesn't work, cheque the instructions manual for your smart Television to learn if information technology'southward CEC supported. If so, follow the instructions in the manual to turn on CEC and attempt to utilise your remote to command the bandage experience.

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