YouTube is a video-sharing platform from Google, and it has videos on almost every topic you can think of. However, occasionally, you might encounter an issue where the video quality on YouTube is unavailable. This prevents you from changing the quality as you’d be stuck with the default quality loaded. In this article, I’ll be sharing with you how to fix quality unavailable on YouTube so you can enjoy your videos in the best resolution available.
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Here are some of the ways to fix quality unavailable on YouTube.
1. Check Your Internet Connection
This is one of the ways to fix quality unavailable on YouTube as not having a stable internet connection will lead to videos being of lower quality. So restart your Wi-Fi or network and make sure the internet connection is good then try again to see if you can change quality.
2. Restart the app
The YouTube app may have run into a bug that may be causing the issue, so a quick way to fix quality unavailable on YouTube is to restart the app. This will make the app start afresh and probably not run into the same bug.
3. Clear YouTube’s Cache and Data
Clearing the app’s cache and data can help to fix quality unavailable on YouTube as the YouTube app will be back to new like it was just installed.
Go to Settings, make way to Apps, tap See all Apps (or Manage Apps), search for YouTube, and tap on it. Now, tap Storage and Cache, and select Clear Data and Cache.
4. Update the app
Check if there is an app update available for YouTube on the Play Store if you are facing issues with changing quality. Install the newest update as it may already have the fix to the bug that caused the issue.
5. Check if YouTube is working properly
Before doing much, make sure to check if YouTube is not experiencing any downtime or technical issues. The problem may be from Google and not even from you at all. So you would just have to wait till it starts working properly. Go to Down Detector and check if there are other people also having issues with YouTube.
6. Uninstall all updates
If you just installed a new update to YouTube, it may be the one causing the problem. To fix quality unavailable on YouTube in this situation, uninstall all the app’s updates. Go to Settings, make your way to Apps, tap See all Apps (or Manage Apps), search for Google Play Store, and tap on it, tap on Uninstall Updates.
Now, we’ve come to the end of this article showing you how to fix quality unavailable on YouTube. Check out our article on how to turn off accidental touch protection.
