In the YouTube app there are only options to play 144p or 240p. Is there any way to make it play 360p?
When I access YouTube from Chrome it plays 360p videos; the quality of the same video was way better when played from the browser.
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Sign up to join this communityThe YouTube quality settings are determined by each video (although if you select a higher quality, it will default to that for the next time). Hit the three-dot menu button:
Then the Quality cog button:
Then you can select the quality setting.
Other videos might have more options for the quality setting:
This completely depends on external factors like, for example, the size of the source video that was uploaded to YouTube.
You can also (from the 3-dot menu on the app Home) go to Settings → General to turn off the "Limit mobile data usage" option, which will allow videos to default to higher quality when you are not on Wi-Fi.