Rising from the ashes of YouTube Vanced is the ReVanced project, which has seen a major milestone with the release of the ReVanced Manager app. ReVanced came to be after Google went after the original YouTube Vanced app with a cease and desist, resulting in the end of the sideloadable Android app that allowed users to skip sponsors, ads, and other tweaks usually exclusive to the paid YouTube Premium subscription, but for free.

ReVanced does those same things, but exists in the form of an Android app patch, as distributing a pre-patched .apk YouTube client is illegal. Additionally, this project is fully open-source, and you can follow its development on GitHub. Previously, users have been able to use the ReVanced patch, though it required building the patch from the source code. Now, however, the ReVanced Manager has been released, which simply and easily patches the YouTube app. Currently, the manager is in an alpha release, and offers support for patching out timeline ads on Twitter, or general advertisements on the official Reddit app, alongside the primary focus of adding quality of life features to both YouTube and YouTube Music.

This alpha release follows the recent news of YouTube trying out anywhere from 5 to 10 unskippable bumper ads before videos.

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[Wavy]

Do i delete the original youtube app then install these?

I didn't have to uninstall my version of YouTube when doing it, so no.

 

[shanefromoz]

I didn't have to uninstall my version of YouTube when doing it, so no.

Can open the vanced microG settings but nothing else.
Do i need to install something else?

 

[LightBeam]

Can open the vanced microG settings but nothing else.
Do i need to install something else?

Dude, I told you. Install this, that's it. No need for Vanced Manager. You have the Revanced manager now. You don't uninstall the YouTube app you have since you're patching it. It's not as complicated as you seem to think

 

[shanefromoz]

Dude, I told you. Install this, that's it. No need for Vanced Manager. You have the Revanced manager now. You don't uninstall the YouTube app you have since you're patching it. It's not as complicated as you seem to think

I have Youtube ReVanced working.
Not sure how i got it to work but it does

 

[LightBeam]

I have Youtube ReVanced working.
Not sure how i got it to work but it does

Haha see, told you it's not complicated. Enjoy

 

[shanefromoz]

Is my google account safe using this app?

 

[mrdude]

I really hope they make this patch work with the Android TV version of youtube! I really want an ad-free alternative for my shield tv.

Couldn't you just extract, mod the Androidmanifest.xml file to be able to install on non android TV, repack and sign then install on your rooted phone. Then patch on the rooted phone. Use apk extractor to extract the modded app and then copy to your computer, Then mod again so that the app is renamed and install on your Android TV. I've not tried doing this myself but I doubt it's all that difficult.

 

[HideoKojima]

Never install an APK outside the play store even tho sometimes some apps on the app store have malware.

 

[tabzer]

Do i delete my current youtube app?

I didn't have to uninstall my version of YouTube when doing it, so no.

I had to delete youtube updates before installing the 17.36.37 version, as I had 17.36.39 already installed.

Never install an APK outside the play store even tho sometimes some apps on the app store have malware.

Google is malware. You have to pick and choose your battles. APK Mirror has a good rep.

 

[shanefromoz]

With Vanced microG settings is it safe to add my google account details there?

** All good made fake user on google **

 

[LibreNyaa]

With Vanced microG settings is it safe to add my google account details there?

** All good made fake user on google **

Yes, if it allows you to sign in at all, then that means it's set up correctly.

 

[LibreNyaa]

Never install an APK outside the play store even tho sometimes some apps on the app store have malware.

The Play Store has plenty of malware, but it is perfectly safe to install APKs from outside the Play Store as long as you do due diligence such as running it through virustotal, and making sure you're getting it from a trustworthy source. That's about all that's happening on the Play Store anyway.

As for ReVanced, it's all open source, so you could compile it yourself if you're concerned about malware.

 

[Wavy]

With Vanced microG settings is it safe to add my google account details there?

** All good made fake user on google **

microG is safe. It's not like you had to make a new account

I had to delete youtube updates before installing the 17.36.37 version, as I had 17.36.39 already installed.

When I updated YouTube in the Play Store it only went up to 17.36.37. Weird.

 

[HideoKojima]

The Play Store has plenty of malware, but it is perfectly safe to install APKs from outside the Play Store as long as you do due diligence such as running it through virustotal, and making sure you're getting it from a trustworthy source. That's about all that's happening on the Play Store anyway.

As for ReVanced, it's all open source, so you could compile it yourself if you're concerned about malware.

That's applicable when you can perform the due diligence as you said otherwise I'd avoid this. I usually use an emulator on PC when I want to use any modded APK for testing purposes but never on my main phone.

 

[LibreNyaa]

That's applicable when you can perform the due diligence as you said otherwise I'd avoid this. I usually use an emulator on PC when I want to use any modded APK for testing purposes but never on my main phone.

Fair enough, definitely safer sticking to the Play Store than random downloads without checking anything.

 

[Taikutsumaranai]

I've compiled this and installed it some weeks ago. Can't live without this app honestly. I had thousands of hours on the original Vanced from skipping intros and sponsorcrap and I am glad Revanced kept that feature.

 

[ExperiencersInternational]

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Rising from the ashes of YouTube Vanced is the ReVanced project, which has seen a major milestone with the release of the ReVanced Manager app. ReVanced came to be after Google went after the original YouTube Vanced app with a cease and desist, resulting in the end of the sideloadable Android app that allowed users to skip sponsors, ads, and other tweaks usually exclusive to the paid YouTube Premium subscription, but for free.

ReVanced does those same things, but exists in the form of an Android app patch, as distributing a pre-patched .apk YouTube client is illegal. Additionally, this project is fully open-source, and you can follow its development on GitHub. Previously, users have been able to use the ReVanced patch, though it required building the patch from the source code. Now, however, the ReVanced Manager has been released, which simply and easily patches the YouTube app. Currently, the manager is in an alpha release, and offers support for patching out timeline ads on Twitter, or general advertisements on the official Reddit app, alongside the primary focus of adding quality of life features to both YouTube and YouTube Music.

This alpha release follows the recent news of YouTube trying out anywhere from 5 to 10 unskippable bumper ads before videos.

Source

Really nice to see that a YouTube Vanced style app is popping up so soon after Vanced's cease and desist over it's logo. Seems to have a lot of the main features of Vanced from my experience, missing RYD though, hope this ends up getting added to ReVanced, continuing using standard Vanced for now since it still works fine.

Edit: Never mind, it does support RYD. I've done the Music patch on my POCO X3 Pro and it works fine, going to check out standard YT patch too. No idea if it's going to work though since my YT app is on 17.01 rn. Edit 2: It worked, but I don't think all my settings worked. Edit 3: Updated standard YT to the latest version and the patched version just crashes unfortunately.

 

[hyprskllz]

tried patching youtube, new apk doesn't open at all. maybe i'm missing something?

 

[tabzer]

tried patching youtube, new apk doesn't open at all. maybe i'm missing something?

Different phones have different compatibility issues. Couple points to try: if you could, did you try downloading from the google play store then try patching that first? if installing from a non google play store source (ie apk mirror), does the app work before you patch it?

 

[eyeliner]

Installed, the manager reports as the patches being installed, but didn't do squat.