YouTube Music is going to offer audio-only and will no longer be able to play videos for free users. This change will initially roll out to users in Canada starting from 3rd November 2021 with the background play feature for the users who have not subscribe to YouTube Premium or YouTube Music Premium.
This update will not bring any updates to subscribers to YouTube Premium as they will continue to be able to watch videos on the YouTube Music app.
News about this update is post on its Community forums.
YouTube announce that videos on YouTube Music will become exclusive to YouTube Premium subscribers as free listeners will no longer be able to watch them until they get to the paid subscription.
Users who don’t have the YouTube Premium or YouTube Music Premium subscription will also not get features including on-demand music selection and unlimited skips.
YouTube Music will continue to allow free users to access dedicated mood mixes for activities such as workout and commute and explore millions of songs and thousands of playlists with ads.
Free listeners who have songs on the YouTube Music app will also continue to play them on-demand.
All changes to the YouTube Music free tier will be coming with background play that was announce earlier this month.
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