Watch YouTube TV on your TV

Gear up to watch your favorite programs on your large screen? To watch on select Telly devices, you can download our TV app, lookout man by opening YouTube TV within the YouTube app on your TV, or stream YouTube TV from your mobile device or computer using a supported device below.

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Cast YouTube Telly

You can scout YouTube Goggle box on your TV by casting or streaming to it from a mobile device or estimator.

Supported devices

Stream YouTube TV to your Television using:

  • Virtually Smart TVs
  • TV devices with AirPlay
  • AirPlay for Apple TV
  • Smart TVs with Chromecast congenital-in (including Android TV devices)
  • Chromecast devices
    • Note: If you're using a first generation Chromecast , you lot may feel a higher charge per unit of errors. It may also take up to 30 seconds to open.
  • Google Smart Displays

Learn more than about setting upwardly a Chromecast and more than devices that piece of work with YouTube TV.

Set & use your device

You tin cast to your TV using your mobile device or computer with these steps:

  1. Connect your mobile device or figurer and streaming device to the same Wi-Fi network.
  2. Open YouTube TV on your mobile device or estimator.
  3. Tap CastInactive cast extension  or AirPlay in the top right.
  4. Select your device.
    • YouTube Tv will open.
    • If you're playing a video, information technology should automatically begin playing on your TV.
  5. Use your mobile device or computer to command YouTube Boob tube on your TV.

Notation: If your iPhone or iPad is on iOS fourteen or afterwards, you'll demand to requite YouTube permission to connect to streaming devices on your local network, such as your Telly, then you can cast to your TV. Learn how.

Play YouTube Television receiver using Google Home

Open up YouTube TV inside of the YouTube app

On some devices, y'all can admission YouTube Tv from the YouTube app directly. To do this, first brand sure the YouTube app is downloaded on your device.

Note: This currently works on sure devices simply. Nosotros'll aggrandize this to as many other devices every bit we tin over time.

  1. Open the YouTube app on your device.
  2. On the left side navigation, scroll downwardly to the bottom to find YouTube TV.
  3. Select YouTube TV to open the app.
    • If it's your beginning fourth dimension doing this, you'll need to sign in to YouTube TV.

Watch with our TV app

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

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

 Chromecast with Google Telly

  1. Sign upwardly for YouTube Telly, if y'all oasis't already.
  2. Starting time your Chromecast with Google Telly device. Note: YouTube Boob tube will be preinstalled. If it has been removed, continue to step three.
  3. Go to the Apps tab.
  4. Search for YouTube Television.
  5. Install the YouTube Tv app.

Android Telly

  1. Sign up for YouTube Boob tube if y'all haven't already.
  2. Open the Google Play Store on your Tv set.
  3. Search for YouTube TV.
  4. Download the YouTube TV app.

Xbox consoles

YouTube TV is available on the following Xbox devices: Xbox Series X, Xbox Series Due south, Xbox 1 X, Xbox One Southward, and Xbox One.

  1. Sign up for YouTube Goggle box if you haven't already.Note: Y'all tin can't currently sign upwards in our TV app, but you can elsewhere, like in the YouTube TV mobile app.
  2. On your Xbox panel, go to the Xbox app store to download the YouTube Goggle box app to your device.

Playstation devices

To install the YouTube Goggle box app:

  1. Open up the PlayStation Store on your Playstation device.
  2. Search for "YouTube Idiot box".
  3. From the apps section of the results, click the YouTube TV listing.
  4. Click download / install.

To uninstall the YouTube Television set app:

  1. Open the PlayStation home screen and become to "TV & Video".
  2. In the apps section, highlight the YouTube TV app.
  3. Printing the "Pick" button on your controller.
  4. From the menu, select Delete.
  5. Select OK.

Samsung TVs

  1. Sign upwards for YouTube TV if you haven't already.
  2. Select the home push button on your device'south remote control.
  3. Select the "Apps" pick to encounter a list of recommended apps.
  4. In the list of recommended apps, find YouTube TV.
  5. Salve the app to your home screen for easy employ.

Note: To brand certain you tin can access YouTube TV, update your Tv's firmware to the latest version.

LG TVs

  1. Sign upward for YouTube Telly if you haven't already.
  2. Select the home button on your device's remote control.
  3. Become to the LG Content Store.
  4. In the LG Content Shop, search for "YouTube Television" and download the YouTube TV app to your Boob tube.
  5. Salvage the app to your home screen for easy use.

Note: To make certain yous can access YouTube TV, update your TV's firmware to the latest version.

Apple Telly

  1. Sign up for YouTube TV if you lot oasis't already.
  2. On your Apple tree Television receiver, open up the App Store app from your Home screen.
  3. Search for "YouTube TV."
  4. Download the YouTube Television app.

Roku

Fire TV

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

Vizio SmartCast

  1. Sign upward for YouTube Television receiver if yous haven't already.
  2. Go to your SmartCast home screen to come across all available apps in the app row.
    • Note: YouTube Idiot box will exist preinstalled.
  3. Select YouTube Tv in the list of apps.

TiVo Stream 4K

  1. Sign up for YouTube Television if you haven't already.
  2. Select Apps from the home screen.
  3. Open the Google Play Store and search for YouTube Tv. Or, do a voice search for YouTube TV using the Google Assistant.
  4. Select the YouTube Boob tube app to install it.

Xfinity Flex and XClass TVs

  1. Sign upwardly for YouTube TV if you oasis't already.
  2. Navigate to the "Apps" row.
  3. Click "View all" to see a full list of apps.
  4. In the listing of apps, find YouTube TV.
  5. Select the YouTube TV app to install it.

Employ our TV app

Sign in to YouTube Tv set

To sign in:

  1. Open the YouTube Television receiver app on your TV.
  2. On a computer or mobile device, go to tv.youtube.com/offset.
  3. Enter the activation code displayed on your TV at tv.youtube.com/start.
  4. Select the account associated with your YouTube TV Base Plan.
  5. Click Let. Yous can now start watching on your Television set.

Sign out of YouTube TV

Yous can sign out of YouTube TV on whatsoever device where y'all're signed in, even if you lot no longer accept admission to those devices.

To sign out of a device that you have access to:

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

Note that this activity will sign you out of YouTube Television for all accounts on this device. If yous want to keep using YouTube TV on this device, you lot'll have to sign in over again.

To sign out of one account only:

  1. Open the YouTube Boob tube app.
  2. Select your profile photograph .
  3. Select Switch account.
  4. Select Remove under the account you lot'd like to remove.

If you want to sign out of YouTube Telly on a device that you lot no longer take admission to:

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

Play YouTube TV using your device remote

You tin use your device remote control to select programs and control video playback in our TV app.

Use your remote control to:

  • Explore the full plan guide to see upcoming programs on your favorite channels.
  • Play/suspension/fast-forward/rewind to control playback while watching a programme.
  • Switch between recently watched programs (including alive TV, recordings, and on-demand programs) past selecting options beneath the video player.
  • Flip between live channels using the aqueduct up/downward buttons on your device remote.
  • Open your library.

Sign upwards for an add-on network using your Television set device

You can add together a network to your YouTube Telly Base Plan using certain TV devices. If you run into a video with a lock icon, you can select it to buy.

Note: Xbox and Apple Tv devices do not support this.

There are 2 ways to brand a purchase for an improver network:

  1. Buy with 1-click on your TV device by going to the improver network and thenPurchase.
    • Note: To do this activeness, make sure yous've allowed "quick purchases" on YouTube.
  2. Utilize a 2nd device to complete the purchase. Encounter the steps below.
    • Note: 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 second device to buy the add-on network:

  1. Search for the improver network or channel using your TV device.
  2. Select the thumbnail for the add-on.
  3. Follow the instructions to become to a unique URL on a 2d device.
    • Note: Y'all'll need to do this using a web browser, or a mobile device.
  4. ClickPurchase.
  5. Get back to your living room device, and clickWashed.

Tips:

  • To buy using the ane-click process, you'll need to opt in to "quick purchases" on YouTube. Turning on "quick purchases" will make sure any device you're signed in to can brand YouTube purchases without actress verification.
  • For detailed instructions on how to turn on "quick purchases," go to this article.

Troubleshooting

If y'all're having trouble with YouTube Goggle box, check out these troubleshooting tips or send feedback to YouTube.

Tips & tricks:

  • If you're role of a family grouping, switch accounts by signing out of and in to a unlike account.
  • YouTube TV also works on other devices and platforms, like your phone and computer.

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