Connect your devices to watch YouTube on your smart TV

In that location are many ways you can connect your devices to watch YouTube on your smart TV or streaming device. Connecting your devices allows you to control YouTube on Boob tube using your telephone, computer, or tablet. Yous can as well accept advantage of many YouTube features from your personal device, including:

  • Share or save videos
  • Add to or change the videos in your queue
  • Fast forrard or rewind videos
  • Participate in live chat
  • Mail service and interact with comments

You can link your devices using:

  • Pairing
  • Casting
  • A Television receiver code

If you're non using a TV code or figurer to connect, make sure you have the YouTube app downloaded. Casting from youtube.com in a mobile browser is non currently supported.

Notes:

  • Cast works with any Tv device that can back up YouTube on Tv, non just Chromecast.
  • If you're a YouTube TV member looking to watch YouTube TV on your television, check out the YouTube TV Help Center for more info.
  • Some features may non be bachelor with supervised accounts on YouTube.

Watch YouTube on your Telly and pair information technology with your phone or tablet

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

How to pair your telephone and TV while watching YouTube

Android

Pairing with your smart Television receiver or streaming device

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

Unpairing from your smart Television receiver or streaming device

  1. Tap Cast .
  2. And so tap DISCONNECT.

iPhone & iPad

Pairing with your smart Telly or streaming device

  1. Make certain your smart Telly or streaming device is gear up up and the YouTube app is open up.
  2. On your iPhone or iPad, open the YouTube app.
  3. Make certain y'all're signed in to the same Google Account on both devices.
  4. A popular-upwardly will open up on your iPhone or iPad, request you to connect to YouTube on your Tv set.
  5. Tap Connect.
    1. If you don't get a pop-up, or you lot accidentally dismiss it, connect using Cast or Tv code.
  6. The video player volition open up in the app on your iPhone or iPad, showing that you lot're continued to your TV or streaming device.

Unpairing from your smart Television or streaming device
Tap Cast .
And then tap DISCONNECT.

Connect to your smart TV or streaming device using Cast


The Cast feature lets you utilize your telephone, tablet, or reckoner to control the YouTube experience on TV.

Note: 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 sentry YouTube on Boob tube with Chromecast, Cast, and Airplay

Connecting to your smart Television receiver or streaming device

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

Disconnecting from your smart TV or streaming device

  1. Tap Cast .
  2. Then tap DISCONNECT.

Connect to your smart Television set or streaming device using a Television receiver lawmaking

Later linking your phone or tablet, you can watch YouTube on your TV when you lot're not continued to Wi-Fi. You can and so use your phone or tablet to play content on your TV or streaming device.

Note: Connecting with a Goggle box code is non bachelor with computers. If you'd like to utilize a computer to connect to your Idiot box or streaming device, yous'll need to connect using Cast.

How to employ your phone or tablet to activate YouTube on TV with a Boob tube code

Link devices with a Television code

Disconnect & reconnect your devices

Unlink devices that were linked with a Television receiver code

If you no longer desire to use your phone or tablet with your smart Television or streaming device, you can unlink them. Once a device is removed, you accept to utilize a new code to re-link the device again.
You can remove linked devices using your:

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

Annotation: Yous can't unlink devices individually now. Unlinking a unmarried device will remove all linked devices.

Unlink on your Smart Television or streaming device

  1. On your Smart TV or streaming device, open the YouTube app.
  2. Become 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 the YouTube app.
  2. Tap your contour moving-picture show .
  3. Tap Settings .
  4. Tap General.
  5. Tap Lookout on Television set.
  6. Tap Delete Devices.
  7. Tap DELETE to remove the linked Smart TV or streaming device.

Browsing YouTube on your smart TV or streaming device

Use the YouTube app equally a remote

Use your Smart Television set's remote

  • Try to employ your Tv remote to control your cast experience. Most TV remotes are supported without further setup.
  • If your remote doesn't work, bank check the instructions manual for your smart TV to acquire if it'south CEC supported. If so, follow the instructions in the manual to plow on CEC and effort to use your remote to control the bandage experience.

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