How-to guides

Each guide here walks one task, in the order you would do it, with the buttons named as they read on screen. Where the honest answer is "not yet, but here is what does work," the guide says so rather than sending you looking for a control that does not exist.

Watching together

• Invite a friend to a watch party Start a party, hand over the link, and what your friend sees when they open it.
• Join a watch party from a link The poster the link opens, the three join buttons, and what a dead link says instead.
• Host a private watch party Point Who can join at Invite only, your followers, your friends or a group, and what each choice actually protects.
• Host a public watch party Switch Who can join to Everyone: people on the video can find the party and anyone can join. What that does and does not list.
• Watch parties on live streams Everyone keeps their own live edge, so rewinding is yours alone. Premieres wait until they start.
• Watch a playlist together The party rides along as you move down a queue, one Follow tap per hop.
• See when someone joins your watch party The roster, the spoken announcement, and the notification hosts get when they have stepped away.
• Stay anonymous with masks What a mask is, why it can never be followed, and how unmasking differs from a persona.
• Turn on voice or camera in a party Listening, mic seats, per-speaker volume, on-device captions, and the honest state of camera.
• Watch along in the browser extension The side panel's party card on youtube.com, and folding it down without disconnecting.

Feeds and receipts

• Create and organize feeds Making a feed, the three open tabs, and why a feed somebody shared with you opens on any plan.
• Share a feed with someone Invite by email, the three roles, and the difference between adding someone who has an account and inviting someone who does not.
• Cross-post a receipt to another feed The Posting to picker, why each copy stands alone, and Copy to for a receipt already posted.

Playlists

• Add your YouTube playlists The two routes, connecting your account and pasting a playlist link, and what each one gives you.

Your account

• Correct the age on your account The ten-minute window, what happens after it, and why the refusal never explains itself.
• What do I get with each plan? What Free covers, what Pro adds, and why being in someone else's feed costs nothing.

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