Daily Tip: How to view High Quality YouTube over 3G



  1. Open Safari
  2. Navigate to m.youtube.com
  3. Find the video you want to watch
  4. Select "HQ"
  5. Tap the thumbnail
  6. Watch YouTube in its HQ glory.

BONUS: You can add the web app to your homescreen to replace the default YouTube app by pressing the +, and then "add to homescreen"


George Lim


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Jo3Bingham says:

I don't if it's just me, but mobile YouTube seems to load videos a LOT more quickly than the YouTube app. Does anyone else notice this?

Avenged says:

Does the native app still have to re-encode each video? in which case it should take longer if it does...

Nvandyke78 says:

I see that too, the web app is better in many ways. Apple really needs to update some of their core apps

Morac says:

The problem is that the iPhone still prefers to open those apps, so clicking on a YouTube link can frequently jump to the YouTube app.

Skatelives101 says:

Well you kinda can. You can click on "share video" then when it opens the email, copy the link, and paste it into your SMS to your friend. That way the link will open with the YouTube app like normal.

Skatelives101 says:

Click "share video" and copy and paste the link into your SMS message.

dmoney5 says:

Yea the high quality button doesn't exist anymore on safari. What can we do now? This seems really stupid of YouTube to limit phones by putting us in a back in the day YouTube limitations.