YouTube Premium adds two experimental features for a limited time

YouTube Premium adds four experimental features to its service, available on registrations. Among these, we note the passage to 256 kb/s for musical videos.

The Subscription to YouTube Premium provides access to the Google video platform without advertisements. But it also offers some additional and non -negligible quality of life options, such as access to YouTube Music, the continuity of reading from one device to another or even a 1080p video quality at Haut Bitrate.

In a press release, the platform details a set of new products that began to be deployed from January 22, 2025.

Certain features are noted as experimental and will only be available for a limited time. You must also go to a dedicated page (YouTube.com/New) to register and activate them, which is very fast if you are already connected.

This concerns four features:

Quickly pass over the web;
Its high quality;
Picture-in-picture pour les Shorts sur iOS ;
Intelligent downloads for shorts on iOS.

The two flagship features

If the last two are quite transparent, the first two deserve some explanations.

Past quickly therefore only works on the web interface. Its operation is quite simple: if you are advancing in your video using the keyboard, a button should appear offering you to “pass quickly” to the “eligible segment”. We have not managed to make it work for the moment, probably it takes activation time. Pass quickly will be available Until February 5, 2025 in beta.

The “high quality sound” for its part works only on iOS and Android. By high quality, YouTube intends to pass the sound from a maximum flow of 128 kb/s to 256 kb/s. YouTube therefore alignments with the maximum quality offered by YouTube Music, the musical streaming service of the Mountain View giant. On the other hand, you will have to find eligible content again. The hard test Until February 22.

YouTube Premium for cheaper for Google One subscribers

Other features have also been deployed for American users, such as reading X4 or the possibility of watching only the “best moments” of a video.

YouTube also inaugurates, always in the United States only, an offer that allows you to get YouTube Premium for cheaper if you subscribe to Google One, from the third party 2 to. What to take advantage of the storage of Google Drive and Google Photos, While avoiding pubs on the video platform. Hopefully the offer is also launched in France and in the rest of the world in the long term.