If you can’t sign in to YouTube on Chromecast, this is why.
, the company says you’re no longer able to log in to your YouTube account on older versions of the streaming puck, leaving you better off just casting from your phone .
While choosing videos on your phone and sending them to your TV through the Chromecast was originally how the device was supposed to work, Google recently added to that experience. Last year, users got the ability toto scroll through a YouTube UI on the Chromecast, letting them use their big screen to pick out videos.
While you can technically still browse through YouTube using your phone as a remote, you’ll have to do so as a logged-out guest — no personalized recommendations, playlists, or viewing history from the rest of your devices directly on the Chromecast. For YouTube Premium subscribers, it’s even worse; currently, if they use the YouTube interface on the Chromecast, it’ll include the ads they pay not to see on the rest of their devices.
While this is mostly a minor inconvenience , the bizarre thing is how Google has communicated pulling a major part of a relatively new feature. Here’s Google in December 2021, tweeting to show off how you could get YouTube’s UI directly on the Chromecast: Watching YouTube on your TV with Google Chromecast? You can use your phone as a remote to cast and control the YouTube app on your TV. Here's how:
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