YouTube has tons of features you'll kick yourself for not using -- ones that can help you improve your viewing experience. However, most of them won't be of any use if you experience a black screen ...

THOUSANDS of users in the US and the UK have reported experiencing issues with accessing the YouTube app and website. The video platform has crashed for thousands of ...

Thousands of users across the United States faced problems using YouTube on Friday after the platform went down unexpectedly around 1 p.m. Eastern Time. The outage affected both the website and mobile ...

YouTube used to fill any blank space around videos in full-screen playback with black. The app recently changed that behavior to now render in a shade of gray, instead. That results in some oddly ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. The YouTube app is showing gray bars on full-screen videos, in a distracting change for users ...