TL;DR
- A YouTube login issue signed some users out on TVs and gaming consoles, while others couldn’t even watch as guests.
- YouTube says the issue is fully fixed, so affected users should be able to sign in and watch again.
YouTube has spent the past couple of weeks making its TV app easier to use. A new companion experience lets your phone handle searches and comments while the video keeps playing on the TV, and account lock adds privacy to shared TVs. That progress didn’t help viewers who got home, opened YouTube, and found themselves signed out. Some couldn’t even watch as guests. Luckily, that’s now been fixed.
In a community update, YouTube says it investigated reports of trouble signing into its app on living room devices and resolved the issue. The company says viewers should no longer encounter login errors. But it hasn’t explained what caused the disruption or whether it’s linked to recent app updates.
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