YouTube Red is a new subscription service on the streaming video site YouTube that gives users exclusive features by paying a monthly subscription fee. And here’s how to get YouTube Red features on your iPhone for free.
First of all, we are not condoning any piracy here. This isn’t either a way to hack into the YouTube app or get YouTube Red for free illegally. Instead, it’s just a matter of jail-breaking your iPhone (which is completely legal) and downloading a Cydia tweak that gives you the features that YouTube Red offers.
The jailbreak tweak is called YouTube ++ and it’s actually been around for a while now, even long before YouTube Red existed. It simply gives a few cool features and disables some features that users might find annoying, like ads. The tweak wasn’t specifically made to bypass YouTube Red’s subscription service by any means, but it’s funny how things work out.
The jailbreak tweak is called YouTube ++ and it’s actually been around for a while now, even long before YouTube Red existed. It simply gives a few cool features and disables some features that users might find annoying, like ads. The tweak wasn’t specifically made to bypass YouTube Red’s subscription service by any means, but it’s funny how things work out.
First What Is YouTube Red?
Google has been talking about a subscription service for YouTube for a while now, but it’s finally here for users to take advantage of.
It costs $9.99 per month but you may get a month. Actually Red comes with a few cool features that might be worth the price for some users. Firstly, it’s completely ad-free so you won’t see any kind of ads while watching YouTube. It also comes with a few exclusive features, like offline viewing of videos that you save, as well as background audio, which allows you to start a video and then exit the app while still having the audio play. This is great for music and other videos where the video portion isn’t needed.
YouTube Red also comes with free access to Google Music, where you’ll have access to unlimited music to listen to for free. There will also be some exclusive content for YouTube Red subscribers, with PewDiePie being one of the providers for some exclusive videos so far.
These last two features you won’t be able to get with the YouTube ++ jailbreak tweak, but some users probably won’t want those features anyway.
How to Get YouTube Red for Free
If you’re not jailbroken on your iPhone and are on iOS 9.0, you can still jailbreak your device using the Pangu jailbreak tool. However, if you’re updated to iOS 9.1, you’re unfortunately out of luck for
Now that you’re jailbroken, you’ll need to install a tweak called YouTube ++, which is found in Cydia. Lucky for you, it contains most of the features that YouTube Red has, so you can essentially get YouTube Red for free, even though you’re not truly subscribing to the service.
YouTube ++ will give you the basic features in YouTube Red, including blocked ads, offline playback, and background audio. Plus, there are a handful of other features you’ll get as well, including custom forward/rewind controls, speed controls, choosing a default playback quality, and an in-app web browser.
After you install YouTube ++, you can go into the YouTube app and access the Settings. From there you’ll see a Preferences button bellow YouTube ++ where you can access all of the different settings for the jailbreak tweak.
Why You Should Pay for YouTube Red
So while I showed you an easy way to get YouTube Red for free, it does have its downsides. First off, it doesn’t work on the desktop and it will only work on the iPhone that you have YouTube ++ installed on. Furthermore, it doesn’t give you all of the features of YouTube Red, especially the free access to Google Music.
If you tend to watch YouTube videos on different devices and not solely on your jailbroken iOS device, then it might be worth it to pay for YouTube Red. This will give you an ad-free experience across all platforms that you’re on, and if you watch YouTube videos a lot anyway, then $9.99 per month isn’t a bad price to pay.
Plus, you’ll be supporting your favorite content creators. So don’t think of it as giving money to Google, but rather giving money to the YouTubers that you enjoy watching.
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