It’s been almost 4 months since YouTube has laid down restrictions on its video streaming services by cutting down the quality to 480p across every network. And finally, Indian viewers can now watch the videos in 1080p but with a catch, which is, user’s can only watch the videos at that quality only when connected to WiFi network which clearly states that the mobile streaming is still limited to SD quality.
Depending upon the quality of a video, user’s will now able to see higher quality settings which feature 720p, 1080p other than the standard definition 144p, 240p, 360p, and 480p which were capped in recent months due to COVID-19 pandemic lockdown globally in many countries to save bandwidth. As seen in the image above, now you can toggle between your desired video quality from HD, full-HD, and also in higher quality by connecting to WiFi network, but once you switch to mobile data the quality of the video will automatically change to 480p only decreasing the quality of video and limiting it to SD again.
Few users might still not be able to watch the videos on high quality as the changes are occurring via a server-side switch rather than an app update. And it’s clear that all YouTube users can watch the videos on high quality and this is not limited to premium users of YouTube. We might see a few more changes in upcoming weeks which might also bring a better quality of video for mobile streaming as per experts.
