But there are other reasons to adjust YouTube video playback speed for more than entertainment purposes.
If youre transcribing text or conducting research, you may need to slow down speech.
Make up the difference with this feature.
In 2017, developers enabled this feature for the YouTube smartphone app as well.
For Android users, you need at least software version 5.0 to use the playback speed feature.
Anything above Normal will speed up the video.
Anything below Normal will slow it down.
When you switch to another video, the playback prefs will reset.
Youll first need to download the freeImprovedTubeextension.
Unlike the regular YouTube player, you could adjust the playback speed in increments of 0.05 with ImprovedTube.
This gives you more flexibility and precision when tweaking speed.
Quality
Adjust the quality of your YouTube video.
Increasing the quality of the video may slow down video load time.
Turn off the captions by going into this setting again.
The captions arent always accurate but can be helpful.
Report
Need to report a less than desirable video?
This is your option.
tapping this option will take you to the screen you need.
you might also access troubleshooting documentation here, as well.
Wrapping Up
Adjusting playback speed for YouTube videos is useful sometimes.
