How to change the quality of Youtube manually to raise the quality or to save data

YouTube allows us to choose between several resolutions at the time of watching videos. The automatic adjustment is set on the basis of our internet connection starting, generally, of a lower quality that rises up to the maximum, if the connection allows it.

If, however, the quality of YouTube remains lower than expected we can always forcing the quality that we want to manually. This is a settings pretty simple that it doesn’t take more than a few seconds.

YouTube and the various types of quality

Before you see how to change the quality of YouTube, it is important to understand what it means to each one of the possibilities that offers us. YouTube mobile allows you to play from 144p up to 4320p, that is to say, until resolution 8K.

The type of resolution adapts to the screen that we are using, that is to say, if our mobile is HD, we will be able to play content up to 720p, if it is Full HD, up to 1080 and so on.

• 144p: Minimum resolution, of very poor quality. You can serve in the event that the connection is of poor quality to see the video, even if it is displayed fairly pixelated.

• 240p and 360p: Qualities defined by YouTube as a standard or low definition. Useful to spend the minimum possible data, and see the video something better than 144p.

• 480p: Mid-point. Don’t get to be HD, but it allows to visualize the video in a dignified manner. Useful when the connection is fairly slow or limited.

• 720p and 1080p: Qualities HD and Full HD respectively. The jump of quality is important with respect to the 480p, but the data consumption begins to peak.

• 1440p: Resolution Quad HD or 2K, the most typical in the high-end mobile Android. Quite a lot more resolution compared with the HD, with a consumption of data, therefore, greater.

• 2160p and 4320p: Resolutions of 4K and 8K respectively. Maximum resolutions allowed by YouTube.

How to change the resolution of YouTube on the mobile

To change the resolution of a YouTube video should start to play it, and then do a click on the image to access the playback settings, from which you can choose the resolution.

Now we’re going to press on the three points that appear in the upper-right corner, to display the video settings. Here we will see the section ‘quality’, in which we will press.

So it will display the list of available resolutions: higher quality, higher consumption of data. Remember that the maximum resolution available is determined by the maximum resolution of your phone so, even if you are watching a recorded video in 4K, if your phone has a panel HD, you will only be able to see it in HD.

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How to change the quality of Youtube manually to raise the quality or to save data

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