Everyone would prefer that they could always watch videos at the highest possible resolution, but technical limitations often prevent us – a slow connection, a low resolution screen, DRM, paid access subscriptions or even a restriction imposed by the application to interrupt a user of certain high resolution streaming platforms. For example, Google used to limit YouTube videos to 1440p on Android, even if they were sent in 4K or more. This is no longer the case now.
YouTube users on Android can finally benefit from the same high resolution limit as their iOS friends and watch videos up to 2160p (4K) HDR. As long as the uploaded video is originally 4K or larger and has HDR, you will have both options in the quality selection pop-up in the app. This seems to be true regardless of your phone’s screen, so you can waste your bandwidth by streaming a 2160p on a 720p screen and no one will stop you or say it’s useless.
He left: Video available at 2160pHDR. Right: Video available in 2160p.
The first sign that the resource goes on air goes back a few days ago, to February 15th, reports began to arrive en masse and fast after that. Now, all of our devices have this option, regardless of the account, country or version of the app, so it looks like it has been widely implemented. If you don’t see it, try to get the latest version of YouTube from APK Mirror to make sure you’re not behind.
