YouTube, our gateway to a whole multimedia world, is getting more and more features as technology advances. Sometimes one of Google’s top apps gets a little behind with times when it comes to some of the features that competing apps already offer their users, but sooner or later YouTube is forced to implement these options to match the competition. of the image that YouTube offers on different platforms is strongly related to how good your internet connection is, but it mostly matters if you watch videos on the go. As long as you have a smartphone that supports 4K resolution, you can watch YouTube videos in high resolution, but only if your internet connection can support it.
As of this week, YouTube has added the same 4K resolution option to Android devices that it does not support. If your smartphone has a Full HD or HD resolution screen, you could theoretically watch 4K videos on YouTube.
This does not mean that the video you are watching is actually working in 4K resolution on your FHD + screen. However, videos you watch in 4K resolution appear to have higher fidelity, even when displayed on lower-resolution screens. Thanks to the scaling, the image is also sharper, so you can have a better experience watching a 4K resolution video on an FHD screen, rather than watching the same lower resolution video.
Google has yet to confirm the new changes, but there is a whole thread on Reddit where people discuss the benefits of having such a high-fidelity option to watch YouTube videos.