Finding Your YouTube Movie Purchases On Android Is Now Doable

Getting a quick overview of your YouTube moving picture purchases through the platform's Android app is now finally somewhat doable. Courtesy of a new update that started rolling out this week. In fact, you're probably running information technology already, unless yous manually disabled YouTube's automated updates via the Google Play Store.

In any case, check out the new Library tab in one case you make certain the installation went through. Not far off the top of that screen is a new item called "Your Movies and shows." Tapping it brings you to another interface showing the titular content in chronological club. In theory, at least. In practise, you may have to restart the app or exercise some other superficial troubleshooting before getting the new content section to show upward. Cleaning YouTube's cache memory from the organization Settings app could do the trick, as well. Or but reinstalling YouTube altogether.

With some fiddling and a bit of luck, you should be able to become the new in-app menu to show up. For added reference, you lot can encounter how the newly spotted

YouTube moving picture purchases apparently aren't going anywhere

The company isn't actively advert this latest addition to the YouTube Android experience. And so users only started picking up on it afterward a while. Just nosotros probably shouldn't read too much into that lack of acknowledgment. It's not like YouTube is anyone'due south default choice for on-demand video. And so this is nearly probable the instance of a low-priority getting done against all odds. I.e. nothing more of import broke in the meantime. But it is too early to expect a wider influx of quality-of-life improvements to YouTube in the immediate time to come.

The latest version of the YouTube Android app packs another, better-documented surprises. And the same tin exist said for Google's video network, on the whole. Though not all of the recent changes to the YouTube experience can be described as positive. At least non from a user perspective. For example, we could have probably washed without even more (audio) ads in long-grade videos. And the UI keeps changing on an well-nigh seasonal basis. Cross-platform consistency is some other area offer pretty substantial room for comeback.

At the same fourth dimension, YouTube keeps doing its thing, incremental, OS-specific updates included. Ditto for somewhat arbitrarily implemented and entirely redundant features such as the power to purchase programming directly from the YouTube app. Non that having more options is ever truly detrimental to the user feel. Only there really aren't that many reasons to get with YouTube over Google Play when it comes to your content shopping needs. And a long-overdue release of a common-sense characteristic such as a searchable purchase history screen will hardly modify that state of affairs.