Both the iOS and Android YouTube apps are buggy and so far nothing is helping

A bug is affecting some users of the YouTube mobile app, as it takes them out of full-screen mode and puts them into the floating mini-player. Not only is this bug messing up the visual capabilities of the streaming video app, but in some cases it is also eliminating the sound from the video.

Affected users can try to get the audio to return by restarting the video being played or by shutting down and then rebooting the YouTube app. But this is not happening for everyone. As usual, word about the bugginess of one of the core Google apps came directly from those Reddit subscribers who were impacted by the issues.

The issues were impacting  both video and audio on the mobile YouTube app for both Android and iOS

Based on the anecdotal evidence presented by Reddit subscribers, Android and iOS users of the YouTube app were both experiencing the switch from full-screen mode to the floating mini-player and some were also losing their audio.
One iPhone user said he has been experiencing "a ton of issues" with the iOS YouTube app, while another said that the latest update to the app completely "f***ed it up." On his iPhone, his videos "randomly restart themselves multiple times, especially if it’s a longer video or podcast."

Clicking on the comments section while watching a video causes it to freeze

Both iOS and Android users said that clicking on the comments section would pause the videos they were playing. One iPhone mini user complained that the YouTube app won't load on his phone. One Redditor had a great line. He said, "I honestly feel like they purposefully bug the UI just for ads so u watch the ad fully lmao."

Even trying a whole set of fixes failed to exterminate the issues 

You know how sometimes an app user comes across a workaround? One YouTuber tried just about everything including:

• Clearing the cache
• Uninstalled and reinstalled YouTube updates
• Force-stopped and restarted the phone
• Turned certain playback settings off and on
• Reset all app preferences to make sure nothing was changed

None of these changes stopped the bugs from continuing to wreak havoc on the mobile YouTube experience.

While the YouTube app is pre-installed on Android, ever since the release of iOS 6 in 2012, iPhone users have had to install the app on their handset via the App Store. If your Android device is missing the YouTube app, you can add it by visiting the Play Store.

Personally, I've been lucky having failed to experience these bugs

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