Connect your devices to sentinel YouTube on your smart Boob tube

There are many ways y'all tin connect your devices to spotter YouTube on your smart TV or streaming device. Connecting your devices allows you to control YouTube on TV using your telephone, estimator, or tablet. Y'all can besides take advantage of many YouTube features from your personal device, including:

  • Share or salve videos
  • Add to or modify the videos in your queue
  • Fast frontward or rewind videos
  • Participate in live chat
  • Post and interact with comments

You lot can link your devices using:

  • Pairing
  • Casting
  • A Boob tube code

If y'all're not using a TV lawmaking or computer to connect, make sure you lot have the YouTube app downloaded. Casting from youtube.com in a mobile browser is not currently supported.

Notes:

  • Cast works with whatsoever TV device that can support YouTube on Television set, non simply Chromecast.
  • If y'all're a YouTube Television set member looking to watch YouTube TV on your telly, cheque out the YouTube TV Help Center for more info.
  • Some features may not be available with supervised accounts on YouTube. Learn more.

Spotter YouTube on your TV and pair information technology with your phone or tablet

Pairing lets you extend your YouTube on TV experience to your telephone or tablet. When you're signed in with the same account, it links your smart TV or streaming device to your phone or tablet.

Android

Pairing with your smart TV or streaming device

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

Unpairing from your smart TV or streaming device

  1. Tap Cast .
  2. Then tap DISCONNECT.

iPhone & iPad

Pairing with your smart Telly or streaming device

  1. Make sure your smart Boob tube or streaming device is set up and the YouTube app is open.
  2. On your iPhone or iPad, open up the YouTube app.
  3. Make sure you're signed in to the same Google Account on both devices.
  4. A pop-up volition open on your iPhone or iPad, request you to connect to YouTube on your Television receiver.
  5. Tap Connect.
    1. If you don't get a pop-upward, or you accidentally dismiss information technology, connect using Bandage or TV lawmaking.
  6. The video player volition open up in the app on your iPhone or iPad, showing that you're continued to your TV or streaming device.

Unpairing from your smart TV or streaming device
Tap Cast .
Then tap DISCONNECT.

Connect to your smart TV or streaming device using Cast


The Cast characteristic lets you use your phone, tablet, or estimator to command the YouTube experience on TV.

Annotation: Casting from youtube.com in a mobile browser is non currently supported. To bandage from a mobile device or tablet, make sure to download the YouTube app.

How to sentinel YouTube on TV with Chromecast, Bandage, and Airplay

Connecting to your smart TV or streaming device

  1. Make sure your smart Television receiver or streaming device is fix and the YouTube app is open.
  2. Make sure your telephone or tablet is connected to the same Wi-Fi network as your smart TV or streaming device.
  3. On your phone or tablet, open up the YouTube app.
  4. Tap Bandage on your phone or tablet.
  5. Select the Goggle box or streaming device you want to cast to and wait for it to connect. Once connected, you can cull videos from your phone or tablet to play on your Goggle box or streaming device.
  6. The video role player volition open up in the app on your phone or tablet, showing that y'all're connected to your Telly or streaming device.

Disconnecting from your smart Boob tube or streaming device

  1. Tap Cast .
  2. Then tap DISCONNECT.

Connect to your smart TV or streaming device using a Telly lawmaking

Afterwards linking your phone or tablet, you tin lookout man YouTube on your Television when y'all're not connected to Wi-Fi. Yous tin so apply your phone or tablet to play content on your TV or streaming device.

Note: Connecting with a TV code is not available with computers. If you'd like to use a reckoner to connect to your Telly or streaming device, y'all'll need to connect using Bandage.

How to use your phone or tablet to activate YouTube on Telly with a TV code

Link devices with a Telly code

Disconnect & reconnect your devices

Unlink devices that were linked with a TV lawmaking

If you no longer want to employ your phone or tablet with your smart TV or streaming device, you can unlink them. Once a device is removed, you have to apply a new lawmaking to re-link the device once again.
Y'all can remove linked devices using your:

  • Smart TV or streaming device, OR
  • Phone or tablet

Notation: You tin't unlink devices individually at present. Unlinking a single device will remove all linked devices.

Unlink on your Smart Television or streaming device

  1. On your Smart Telly or streaming device, open the YouTube app.
  2. Get to Settings .
  3. Select Linked devices.
  4. Select Unlink all devices to unlink all devices at once.

Unlink on your phone or tablet

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

Browsing YouTube on your smart Idiot box or streaming device

Utilize the YouTube app as a remote

Use your Smart Telly'due south remote

  • Endeavour to use your Television receiver remote to control your cast experience. Most TV remotes are supported without farther setup.
  • If your remote doesn't work, cheque the instructions manual for your smart Idiot box to acquire if it's CEC supported. If and so, follow the instructions in the manual to plow on CEC and effort to utilise your remote to control the cast experience.

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