How To Set YouTube Video Quality Permanently
Rather than changing the quality of video for every video, this article will help you to learn How To Set YouTube Video Quality Permanently in 5 easy steps.
YouTube is a great platform for uploading HD video content, enabling many to reach millions of people around the world. While watching a video on YouTube, your network connectivity might automatically determine the default video quality. This irritates its users as some people like watching their videos in HD quality on YouTube always. And hence let's get started to learn how to set the quality permanently.
How To Set YouTube Video Resolution Permanently
Set YouTube Video Quality Permanently in 5 Easy Steps
Step-1 Open YouTube Application: First of all, you have to start the YouTube app on your iPhone. You can do so:
- Go to the ‘App Gallery.
- Then, click on the ‘YouTube’ app icon as shown in the given picture.
- Or, you can also find this icon with the help of the given ‘Search bar.
Step-2 Click On The Setting icon: As a next step play any video you want to watch. In to upper right corner click on the gear icon i.e. the 'settings' icon.
Step-3 Click on Quality Option: Under the 'settings' menu, there are options like 'captions- which will turn on the subtitles of the video for you and 'loop video - which will play the video on loop'.
Click on the 'quality' option.
Step-4 Click On Setting: In a quality setting on the bottom side you can see 'setting > video quality preference' in blue highlighted color, tap on it.
Step-5 Select the Quality: Then select any quality that you want to set for eg. 'Higher picture quality- which will use more data' or ' Data saver- which will play video in low picture quality.
Your video quality is set and you can now enjoy watching videos in the quality set by you.
FAQ
What Are The YouTube Video Quality Options?
YouTube allows its users to enjoy High-Quality videos on its platform. There are four different YouTube video quality options:
- Auto, which changes the video quality automatically according to your network conditions, screen size, and quality of the original video.
- Higher picture quality, which plays videos in 720p resolution or higher and uses more data.
- Data saver, which plays videos in lower quality but is helpful if you want to save data.
- Advanced, which lets you select specific video quality according to your choice.
How to Set YouTube Video Quality Permanently on Mobile?
On mobile, the steps used to set the quality of the video permanently is somewhat similar to the one given in this article. Let's take a look:
- Launch the YouTube app and tap on your profile photo icon in the upper right.
- From there Select Settings and tap Video quality preferences.
- Next, if you are an iPhone user, then select On mobile networks or Wi-Fi on the next page.
- Under Video quality on mobile networks/Wi-Fi, select either Higher picture quality or Data saver.
How to Set YouTube Video Quality Permanently on Desktop?
You can also Set YouTube Video quality while you are using Desktop, to know about the steps you can take a look below:
- Go to Auto Quality for YouTube in the Chrome Web Store.
- Click Add to Chrome and then click Add extension from the pop-up menu.
- Then open YouTube via your browser.
- Click the 'Auto Quality' for YouTube icon on the browser extension menu.
- Select the drop-down menu located next to Default Quality and choose your choice of quality for YouTube videos.
- Click Save to finish and refresh the page.
How Do I Preserve YouTube Quality?
- Tap your profile picture icon from the top-right corner of the screen.
- Next, then Tap on 'Settings.'
- Scroll down to the 'Uploads' section, and tap on 'Upload quality.'
- Tap 'Full Quality' to make the YouTube app upload your videos at full quality. And you're done.
How to Set YouTube Video Quality Permanently on Desktop using Firefox?
It's common for people to use a browser other than Chrome i.e. Firefox, to know How to Set YouTube Video Quality Permanently on a Desktop using Firefox you can follow the below-given steps:
- Go to the YouTube extension for Firefox.
- Tap Add to Firefox, then select Add from the pop-up.
- Then Go to YouTube and play any video.
- Next, then Click the YouTube High Definition icon in the upper right.
- From the Video quality drop-down and then select your preferred video quality.