YouTube Go is an application launched by Google a few years ago with the idea of ​​covering a gap that was much more common at the time: Android phones with lower-end hardware in emerging markets with reduced connectivity and data rates beyond the reach of most of the population. Without further ado, it was introduced in India earlier than anywhere else.

But since that year 2016, everything has changed and it seems that YouTube Go has fulfilled its cycle, says the internet giant in a farewell article, in which he sets last goodbye app next augustIn just three months. Until then, it can still be used, it cannot be downloaded normally.

“When we launched YouTube Go in 2016, it was designed for viewers in places where connectivity, data pricing and lower-end devices prevented us from providing the best experience in the main YouTube app,” the company explains. “Since then, we’ve invested in improvements to YouTube’s core application to make it work better in these environments while providing a better user experience.”

In essence, they say they have improved the performance of normal applications to offer better performance on entry terminals or slower networks, and they are also working to improve control tools to reduce mobile data usage, so YouTube Go just doesn’t need it anymore in the scenarios for which it was created.

YouTube Go

Keep in mind that YouTube Go didn’t use less for nothing, but other enhancements to remove authoring features from the app, such as uploading and uploading videos and even commenting on others’ videos. Features that many YouTube Go users have long demanded, but for obvious reasons have never been implemented in the app.

YouTube Go, whose last update comes from October last year, didn’t even incorporate a dark theme that’s been so fashionable lately. But it doesn’t matter now, because after more than 500 million downloads in six years next year, YouTube Go will disappear from view and the original YouTube application will remain the default.

In fact, Google encourages YouTube Go users to go to YouTube without further delay or at most to use the service through its website with a compatible web browser. If YouTube Go would continue to work on the devices on which it is installed, nothing was said, even if it were logical, at least for a while.