I have tested the app with my personal account. You can use the app without being logged in as a simple utility to sit back and watch videos, or you can enter your Google account credentials to gain the possibility to leave comments, save videos to playlists or “watch later”, subscribe to channels, and just about anything else that might be related to your YouTube account. YouTube for iOS features a Facebook-inspired side panel to access channels you’re subscribed to, categories from YouTube (music, sports, popular, etc), the app’s settings, and your account. ![]() As Google goes free from Apple’s restrictions with standalone apps, this is about to change. On the standard desktop YouTube website, users could watch, say, music videos from official channels because the company embedded banners or pre-roll ads to monetize on iOS devices, official videos were omitted from search results, and links to these videos would return the infamous “this video is not available on mobile” error message. ![]() One of the most controversial aspects of the former, pre-installed YouTube client for iOS was that, as Google started monetizing the YouTube platform with “official” videos from channels like VEVO, the pre-installed iOS client couldn’t display such videos due to a lack of agreement between Apple and Google in regards to ads shown to the users. While not excellent in terms of performances, the key to this first release of YouTube for iOS is access. I have taken the YouTube app for a spin, and I was quite impressed with what Google accomplished in this first version. Announced on the YouTube blog, the app is available for free on the App Store, and it runs natively on the iPhone according to The New York Times, an iPad version is also in the works. In an unsurprising move considering Apple’s upcoming iOS 6 update, Google released an official YouTube app for iPhone last night.
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