Google Is Killing Its Lightweight YouTube Go App; Here’s Why!
May. 4, 2022YouTube Go App Shutting Down
Google, via ablog post, has revealed thatthe YouTube Go app will cease to existlater this August. The tech giant recommends users switch to the main YouTube app or head to YouTube.com in order to continue using the video-streaming platform.
The company says that it launched YouTube Go in areas where the company couldn’t deliver the main app’s experiences. However, that has changed over the years.
It has also revealed that theYouTube experience on low-end smartphones or in areas with slower internet speeds has also improved. YouTube is also expected to get better user controls such as the ability to reduce mobile data usage for people with limited data. However, a release timeline isn’t known.
To justify this decision, Google emphasizes the fact that YouTube Go was devoid of various features of the main app such as the dark mode and the ability to comment, share, like, and more. Although, the Go version of the app had an interesting feature to locally share videos without the need for data, which the main YouTube app lacks.
While it seems fair to let go of its “lighter” Go app, considering the way YouTube has grown over the years, it remains to be seen if this is the same fate for the other Google Go apps like Maps, Gmail, Search, and more. What are your thoughts on this decision? Do you think it’s fine that the YouTube Go app is going away? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
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