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YouTube App Not Working on Your New Apple TV? Here's the Fix

Apple TV 4K 4th Generation Top View5The fourth-generation Apple TV 4K began arriving to customers today, and some users noticed the YouTube app is not working. If you have encountered this issue, make sure tvOS 27.2 is installed via Settings → System → Software Updates. If it already is, you may need to restart the Apple TV via Settings → System → Restart. Last, you may need to uninstall and reinstall the YouTube app.

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Top Rated Comments

Ghost31 Avatar
1 hour ago at 09:34 am

Embarrassing people are buying this thing for $300 now. Not worth the extra cost for Siri continuing to be dumb as hell. Useless.
What should we all be buying?
Score: 8 Votes (Like | Disagree)
39 minutes ago at 09:59 am

Embarrassing people are buying this thing for $300 now. Not worth the extra cost for Siri continuing to be dumb as hell. Useless.
Nobody makes buying decisions based on your hate.
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
1 hour ago at 09:32 am

what a colossal failure apple, like what do you think we use this box for, streaming YouTube, and oh other apps.

how on earth did you allow this to happen,

like again I suggest you FIRE Criag and his entire MGMT team for even letting this happen
how is apple responsible for a third party youtube app not working?
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
1 hour ago at 09:25 am
what a colossal failure apple, like what do you think we use this box for, streaming YouTube, and oh other apps.

how on earth did you allow this to happen,

like again I suggest you FIRE Criag and his entire MGMT team for even letting this happen
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
arkhanjel Avatar
56 minutes ago at 09:41 am

Update the software and power cycle it.

One would hope folks would try those solutions on their own, without needing to be told.

Uninstall and re-install is a total failure here if that's what is needed.
Ugh
People that report off the jump without any kind of basic troubleshooting are the ones that do it for the engagement or to able to claim they told a site like macrumors and it became a post.


what a colossal failure apple, like what do you think we use this box for, streaming YouTube, and oh other apps.

how on earth did you allow this to happen,

like again I suggest you FIRE Criag and his entire MGMT team for even letting this happen
Youtube has always been notorious for their app having issues on the Apple TV. It's nothing new.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
1 hour ago at 09:37 am

Embarrassing people are buying this thing for $300 now. Not worth the extra cost for Siri continuing to be dumb as hell. Useless.
Embarrassing how people spending their money on something they desire is such an issue about it that you have to call them embarrassing for it.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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