How to Fix Youtube Videos Black Screen
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Here are some things you can try when you see a black screen, or only hear audio, in the YouTube mobile app: Clear the app cache. Restart your device. Delete the app, and reinstall it. Try to view the video using the mobile web player by navigating to youtube.com with a web browser on your phone.

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Alb Jackson

30-Sep-2019

Suppose you start to watch a video on YouTube. And you were looking forward to video to load and play. Unfortunately, you don’t get anything and YouTube video player screen is black and it’s no longer responding. Actually this is a quite general difficulty encountered by many YouTube users and that is “YouTube videos black screen”.

It is quite frustrating you cannot have the amusement anymore. But there is no need to alarm as we will recollect all the possible causes from minor to the major one. As well as highlight their diversified solutions.

Methods to fix YouTube videos black screen

1.     Sign out of your YouTube (Google) account

·         YouTube video black screen often happens if you are logged on with your YouTube account.

·         Sign out from your account and check whether the video is streaming usually or not.

·       Tap on your Account icon in the upright corner of the page and in the following menu you will get Sign out option, click on it.

 

2.     Refresh the page or restart your browser

·         It may be possible that your browser problem has uprooted this issue.

·         Tap on the Reload icon of your web browser or Press F5 key and check.

·         If the issue still continues then restart your browser and start playing the YouTube video again.

·         Verify whether the solution is resolved or not.

 

3.     Check your network connection  

·       Verify that you have a stable and perfect internet connection. You can switch to VPN services. Search for some better VPN services in your browser and download and install in your browser.

·         Monitor all the programs and other devices connected to the same network.

·   Deactivate the network connection of these devices and programs that are hampering the network performance.

 

4.     Clear your browsing info

·         Press Ctrl, Shift, Delete keys frequently and you will receive a data clearing prompt on your screen.

·         Remove all the browsing data from your web browser.

·         Select a time range in Obliterate the following items from the field.

·         Choose all the entities to wipe out and hit on the Clear browsing data tab.

·         Confirm whether you are able to watch videos properly.

 

5.    Deactivate all the extensions that lead to complications

·         Probably the extensions are obstructing YouTube.

·         For this, you need to deactivate all these extensions. Open Settings in chrome.

·       Click on Extensions below Advanced option and you will be redirected to extensions page. Here you will see several extensions attached with chrome.

·     Disable the slide you may also delete it on the grounds of your alternative. For this click on the Remove tab.

·        Check whether the trouble is fixed or not.

I hope these solutions are catalytic for your issue and now you are able to enjoy your favorite videos on YouTube.

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