YouTube available for installation as a Progressive Web App (PWA)

Some Google services today are available as Progressive Web Apps. After Music and TV, the main YouTube website can now be installed as a PWA for fast dedicated access.

Progressive Web App support for YouTube.com has been added in the past few days. In Chrome, the icon more in a revealing circle appears directly on the Omnibox, with users asking for “Install the app”. This differs from the “Install” option in the browser’s manual overflow menu, which has been available for some time.

After that, you get a big red play logo in your app launcher to open YouTube in a window that lacks the address bar and other UI elements for a dedicated experience. Shelf pinning (as in Chrome OS) provides immediate access to what’s playing.

This ability to install the main site unites the PWAs for YouTube Music (October 2019) and YouTube TV (January 2020), thus completing the family. Meanwhile, other Google sites include:

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