2.2.0 (2026-11-10)
✨ New Features
- Add "Show in-app notification for patch updates" setting (#4178) (c8741dd)
- Debugging: Add verbose debug logging setting (#4547) (ae2f2e0)
- Reddit: Add
High quality avatarspatch (#4477) (1f00c87) - YouTube - Add to queue: Enhance native playlist support (#4404) (c1f633c)
- YouTube - Ambient mode: Add "Enhanced Ambient mode" setting (#4576) (0eb6a0a)
- YouTube - Disable continue watching prompt: Replace the setting with "'Continue watching?' prompt", with a mode that always shows the autoplay countdown at the end of the video (772363e)
- YouTube - Keyword content filter: Filter videos/comments with more precision, simplify keyword declaration, fix certain keywords incorrectly hiding all videos (#4530) (d238387)
- YouTube - Niconico comments: Add "Show in portrait" and "Separate settings for portrait" settings (#4515) (c6097b3)
- YouTube - Niconico comments: Add Reset confirmation and settings button to quick settings (#4543) (310b0d4)
- YouTube - Niconico comments: Keep comments from running into each other (#4497) (cf20941)
- YouTube - On-the-go player: Show On-the-go lock screen controls (#4570) (9d173c6)
- YouTube - Playlist improvements: Extend refinements to all playlists and add long-press reordering (#4584) (8784dab)
- YouTube - Return YouTube Dislike: Show the feed thumbnail like count at the top left of the thumbnail (7aede05)
- YouTube - Spoof video streams: Add "Android VR Experimental" client, which uses the latest Android VR app version (59262c1)
- YouTube Music - Navigation bar: Add "Glass navigation bar" setting (#4542) (8b3c1da)
- YouTube Music - Third-party lyrics: Lyrics panel detection various fixes (#4562) (9bb5b73)
- YouTube Music - Third-party lyrics: ttml, ruby, romanization enhancement (#4439) (c7c8bb7)
- YouTube: Add "Custom seekbar thumb" setting (#4494) (abcc9b1)
- YouTube: Add
On-the-go playerpatch (#4511) (18374c0)
🐛 Bug Fixes
- Spoof video streams: "OAuth2 is temporarily not available" toast when the app starts before the network is ready with Android VR (77a4626)
- Spoof video streams: Android VR buffers more before starting a video than the app player config (369f555)
- Spoof video streams: First video after app launch, or a video that falls back to another client, starts slowly while the JavaScript engine, access token, and visitor id are prepared (75a14c7)
- Spoof video streams: Playback freezes if the server sends a SABR error instead of a stream range (#4538) (256dc71)
- YouTube - Add to queue: Turning off "Override feed flyout queue button" is lost after it was replaced by "Play next in queue type" (fb5cf05)
- YouTube - Ambient mode: Black band under the player after the page scrolls (#4610) (8789c82)
- YouTube - Ambient mode: Comment box turns white with Enhanced Ambient mode (#4603) (45a0312)
- YouTube - Ambient mode: With "Enhanced Ambient mode", the cards of "Feed card layout" are partly translucent and the list shows through the sticky filter chips (ee7199b)
- YouTube - Ask flyout menu: Select suggestions with negative IDs (#4496) (cd29774)
- YouTube - Change form factor: Home feed turns into a list on tablets with the Phone device layout on 21.30+ (#4545) (b6c8204)
- YouTube - Disable double tap actions: Two-finger double tap seeks instead of skipping chapters on 21.11+ (bf91aa5)
- YouTube - Disable double tap actions: Two-finger double tap seeks instead of skipping chapters on accounts whose server config turns the chapter skip off (6bdf46e)
- YouTube - Disable fullscreen gestures: Pinch-to-zoom takes the two finger double tap that skips chapters (48592df)
- YouTube - Disable video codecs: Use VP9 codec by default for devices that lack AV1 hardware decoding (a23110e)
- YouTube - Feed card layout: Cards sometimes go back to the classic layout while the app rewrites its template cache (240377e)
- YouTube - Feed card layout: Playlist and podcast shelves of the channel home are not drawn as cards (a483420)
- YouTube - Feed card layout: Replies of the comments opened from the cards do not open (23c7d1d)
- YouTube - Feed view count: View count badge flashes on the Shorts of the search results while they scroll into view (5999bde)
- YouTube - GmsCore support: Bedtime and break reminders turn on again after switching account or clearing app data, as every account is treated as a teen account (a64cecc)
- YouTube - GmsCore support: Every account gets the bedtime, break and Shorts feed limit reminders of a supervised account (4011b15)
- YouTube - Hide layout components: "Channel tab filter" with the Home tab leaves the Home feed blank on 21.44+ (b02995c)
- YouTube - Hide layout components: "Hide channel bar" leaves an empty bordered box in the fullscreen engagement panel (dd40ae2)
- YouTube - Hide layout components: "Hide channel buttons" does not hide the YouTube Music banner of a channel in the search results with the Automotive device layout (9afdd0f)
- YouTube - Hide layout components: "Hide feed flyout menu" leaves empty rows in the popup menus and does not hide the items of the toolbar menu, such as on a playlist page (b492056)
- YouTube - Hide layout components: Keyword filter hides every comment when a keyword is also a text of the comment section, such as "AI" (acb4e58)
- YouTube - Hide layout components: Post content disappears after tapping "Read more" (#4563) (f7b7c07)
- YouTube - Hide player flyout menu components: "Additional settings", "Ambient mode", "Stable volume" and "Listen with YouTube Music" items are not hidden when their icon has no name in the buffer (0031ac6)
- YouTube - Hide player flyout menu components: "Hide 'On-the-go' menu" does not work on 21.x (e6c1ce2)
- YouTube - Hide video action buttons: "Hide Ask button" does not hide the Ask button of the portrait action bar (e022ec5)
- YouTube - Morphe snackbar: Reduced snackbar queue timeout to 3 seconds (75ce67c)
- YouTube - Navigation bar: "Hide Microphone button" does not hide the microphone of the Home search bar (a184951)
- YouTube - Navigation bar: Glass navigation bar cuts the first and the last button on tablets, where the buttons have a minimum width (88d4844)
- YouTube - Navigation bar: Incognito and connection status bar covers the bottom edge of the glass navigation bar (711afdd)
- YouTube - Niconico comments: Chat status messages are shown as comments (#4499) (241100c)
- YouTube - On-the-go player: Dismiss player flyout menu when On-the-go item is selected (#4631) (bc2c21c)
- YouTube - On-the-go player: Seekbar thumb is cut off at the start and end of the video (e85b5f0)
- YouTube - Open system share sheet: Playing video enters picture-in-picture when the share sheet opens, and Mixes are shared with a link that does not open (59e9e83)
- YouTube - Restore old video action bar: The like button has no icon with the chosen "Video action bar layout", and buttons sent without an icon now use the icon the server sent before or the app icon (62e68ad)
- YouTube - Return YouTube Dislike: Feed thumbnail like and view counts are missing on Shorts cards, and the like count is missing on the watch history (8238200)
- YouTube - Return YouTube Dislike: Feed thumbnail like and view counts are sometimes missing when the card or the vote fetch is slow (9f947b5)
- YouTube - Return YouTube Dislike: Feed thumbnail like count is missing on cards with the thumbnail beside the texts, such as the search results on tablets (0a1a178)
- YouTube - Return YouTube Dislike: Feed thumbnail like count is missing on the cards of grid rows, such as the channel pages and the feed on tablets (3e24ded)
- YouTube - Return YouTube Dislike: Feed thumbnail like count is missing on the small thumbnails of list rows, such as the channel videos on phones (342c1a9)
- YouTube - Return YouTube Dislike: Feed thumbnail like count is missing on the videos of rows that show many videos in one element, such as the Videos and Live tabs of a channel (bd94959)
- YouTube - Seekbar: Full screen seek preview does not cover the sides of a video zoomed to fill the screen (4e83c67)
- YouTube - Seekbar: Seek preview shows a strip of the previous frame on its left side, which grows and shrinks while seeking (ae97c40)
- YouTube - Settings: App crashes when opening the settings on 21.45, which reuses the registers the settings hooks read the fragment from (61be996)
- YouTube - SponsorBlock: Video does not end after a segment at the end of the video is skipped (4c7a0c2)
- YouTube - Swipe controls: Autoplay stops at the end screen after using only swipe controls or volume keys in fullscreen (7004af9)
- YouTube Music - Downloads: Match the renamed page header of older versions (#4503) (1822fd7)
- YouTube Music - Theme: Bottom sheets do not follow theme (bc81be7)
- YouTube Music - Third-party lyrics: LRC lyrics with line timestamps detected as unsynchronized (#4611) (219265e)
- YouTube Music - Third-party lyrics: Resolve build, lint, and static analysis warnings (c5da4c6)
- YouTube Music: Resolve lyrics panel, button, and translation language/locale failures (#4552) (5df3d94)
- YouTube: App crash when patching
21.28.208(bdeda41) - YouTube: Patches fail to read the watch next response after other patches change it in place, playlist requests reuse failed results, network failures show error toasts, and clean up unused, duplicated and one-caller code (2705d3a)
- YouTube: The second feature flag that hides the navigation bar while the keyboard is open is not turned off, so pages keep its wrong padding (2a01da0)