The android youtube application receives the incognito mode

It's no secret that Google has been testing an incognito mode for users of its Android YouTube app in recent months. It is a functionality quite demanded by some users, and that finally reaches all audiences through an update of the application in the Play Store.

Incognito mode arrives at the Android YouTube application with a new update, all the details

From now on, users of the YouTube for Android app can easily switch to incognito mode and navigate the app without their history or recommendations being affected by videos viewed in this mode. The change of mode can be done in a very simple way by clicking on the user's avatar. As long as you remain incognito, you will see the Google incognito icon where your account avatar should be.

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It will also be very useful to leave the phone or a tablet to children, since YouTube will restrict more than 18 contents unless the user logs in and verifies their identity, which is not possible in this incognito mode. The bad part is that users cannot access any of the YouTube Premium functions while they have this incognito mode activated, so there will be no YouTube Originals or offline media.

For now this incognito mode is only available for the Android application, it is very possible that Google decides to implement it in iOS soon given the great interest of users of the Apple platform for this new functionality, a new point in which the operating system Google is ahead of its great rival.

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