YouTube replace bug triggers LG TV screensaver throughout playback

Watching YouTube is irritating sufficient while you’re continually reaching for the distant to skip adverts. Now, some LG TV homeowners are discovering themselves reaching for it each couple of minutes for a totally completely different motive.

Latest updates to the YouTube and YouTube TV apps look like triggering the webOS screensaver throughout lively playback on some LG TVs, interrupting movies though they by no means really cease taking part in.

A number of reviews on the YouTube Group say YouTube model 1.2.15 causes the screensaver to activate at any time when movies aren’t displayed in a regular 16:9 facet ratio. That features Shorts, vertical movies, basic 4:3 uploads, and even wider 2:1 content material.

Over on Reddit, affected customers describe the identical conduct: The display screen abruptly goes black earlier than the acquainted webOS fireworks screensaver seems, whereas the video’s audio continues taking part in uninterrupted. Urgent any button instantly restores the image, suggesting playback itself by no means stops. Most reviews we’ve seen contain the LG CX collection and a few BX OLED fashions, though it’s unclear whether or not different webOS TVs are affected.

The issue isn’t restricted to YouTube. Customers on the YouTube TV Group say a current YouTube TV replace additionally causes the screensaver to seem each jiffy when in multiview mode.

One Reddit person notes that LG help beneficial totally powering off the TV, unplugging it, then holding the TV’s bodily energy button for 30 seconds earlier than plugging it again in. Whereas that mounted the issue on their TV, the identical workaround didn’t assist others, so your mileage could range.

LG has since revealed newer variations of each apps — YouTube v1.2.16 and YouTube TV v1.1.13 — however neither replace contains launch notes explaining what’s modified. Contemporary reviews of the bug are nonetheless showing, making it troublesome to inform whether or not the newest releases embody a repair or whether or not affected customers merely haven’t up to date but.

With out an official acknowledgment from both LG or Google, it’s additionally unclear whether or not that is in the end a webOS difficulty, an app regression, or an interplay between the 2. We’ve reached out to LG for remark, and we’ll replace this story if we hear again.