YouTube is coming to Android Auto - but you can't watch it

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• A YouTube app is coming to Android Auto.
• You can't really ticker immoderate videos, though.
• The app lone lets you power the audio of a video that's playing.

A YouTube app is coming to your car, but don't program connected watching immoderate videos.

Over the past respective days, users person noticed a YouTube app appearing connected Android Auto. But it doesn't really fto you ticker YouTube. 

What's the constituent then?

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The caller YouTube app for Android Auto has nary video playback and nary browsing -- it's simply a media subordinate for audio. You tin play oregon intermission contented and skip guardant to different video, and that's all. That's surely limited, but if you often usage YouTube for podcasts, long-form videos similar lectures oregon classes, oregon music, this is simply a reasonably utile feature. Android Auto already plays immoderate audio is coming done your phone, truthful the quality to perceive isn't new. What's caller is easier controls with the buttons connected your steering instrumentality oregon dashboard.

There's different catch, though. 

A propulsion for YouTube's premium subscription?

Unless you conscionable acceptable your telephone down and fto the video play, moving down your battery, you'll request the video to play successful the inheritance to support the audio going. And to bash that, you'll request to beryllium a YouTube Premium subscriber. 

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YouTube offers a premium subscription for $8 a period that includes ad-free viewing, the quality to download videos, and, astir importantly here, lets you support videos playing successful the inheritance portion your telephone is showing thing else. 

Given that Android Auto implements rather a fewer restrictions arsenic to however you tin interact with it portion driving, it's nary astonishment that you can't ticker videos. You person to wonder, though, if this is simply a propulsion to promote radical to motion up for YouTube's premium subscription oregon adjacent the opening of a larger integration of YouTube into your vehicle, similar watching videos portion parked.