I queue 5-8 videos at night thru mobile. A meditation/story, and then several white noise and music videos. However, YouTube recently pushed this "it's late you should go to bed" feature on me and it keeps turning back on after I've turned it off.
I have turned this off several times, but keep waking up to my partners snoring due to the videos stopping around an hour into my queue. On top of this, my queue AND the notification about this both mysteriously vanish by the time I've woken.
It's really fucking annoying to get about 3h of sleep just because YouTube suddenly wants me to not listen to the videos i queued on purpose. This isn't autoplay, it's an intentional playlist. I would not be upset if i didn't lose my queue (amd I am NOT remaking new playlists every single night just so i can get the videos I wanted back when I've turned this feature off several times). I would be less upset if this notification didn't vanish off the face of the earth before I woke up. I only know why the videos are stopping because I work late and it's decided i should go to sleep in the middle of a work shift, too.
I have YouTube premium. My account has been verified to be an adult's account. I NEED to be able to put on white noise due to my partners snoring and my auditory sensitivity. If I don't get enough sleep for long enough, my bipolar starts to get bad even with my medication. I work late, so it interrupts me in general. Why is YouTube turning this stupid helicopter parent feature on??? How do i make this feature STAY OFF??? I'm terrible with UI anymore and get very lost in the settings, so it's very hard for me to find this feature, AND I'VE TURNED IT OFF AT LEAST THREE TIMES!!! I can't even remember the name of this feature from the times I've caught the notification, so can't Google how to turn it off for real instead of some goofy ass "Oh you want this NOW, right?" vibes.
I'm curious how you turned it on, because I don't have this problem.
In the YouTube app, go to Settings > Time management and turn it off.
If you've already done that, and it still turns on automatically, are you signed into more than one Google account on your phone or on YouTube? If so, turn it off on all accounts.
If that still doesn't help, check your phone's settings and installed apps for any that might affect this setting. For example, if you have a scheduled bedtime or nighttime mode, or if your do-not-disturb turns it on.
thank you for actually giving an answer that falls within the range of what I'm asking. idk why people insist on not giving the advice asked for, at least do it alongside the unwanted advice. I pay for YouTube premium, I think it would be pretty fucking silly to go through other apps when it works fine outside of one weird situation every week or two.
Thanks for the menu path. it's simple, but the number of times I've gotten turned around in menus because they hide the option i want, combined with the number of options on a lot of menus, have gotten me to the point where i struggle to read them even when they're more straightforward.
I have NO IDEA how it turned on, and am also curious! I assumed that it was a feature that automatically turned on when my account had not been age verified (i remember it started around when i tried to say no to it) but like i said the little popup vanishes by the time I see it, so I don't know when it started exactly.
The other accounts might be it. I shouldn't be signed in, but I'm sure at least one is also connected, so I'll go through them just to triple check, thank you!
I've just seen those other comments. Pretty bizarre responses.
I'm now puzzled how your age hasn't been verified, given that you pay for YT Premium — presumably Google has your credit card info, right?
Unless it's the other accounts, as you say. It's a hassle juggling multiple accounts; I've stuck with just one. Much easier that way.
Sorry if it was unclear, I WAS unverified for about a week (partially because i found it extremely stupid that a 15+ year old google account that has payments towards YouTube and Google on file should even NEED to ask me to verify. partially because i hate this trend), and have since verified my age. Idk, maybe it's cheaper to run the verification on individuals consenting than to the entire Gmail population?
I have a few for various reasons (bills/business, pleasure, creative, that old one full of shit i don't want to get rid of or clutter my main with), and usually just use one day-to-day.
I have Premium and sometimes settings just change eg YT insists on turning captions on or other nonsense
Someone gave the YouTube answer, but from my observation, your hubby might need to look into getting a Cpap machine. Dude most likely has sleep apnea, especially if he snores loud enough to wake you up from dead sleep.
i believe that i wake up between sleep cycles and am unable to return to sleep, rather than being woken from a deep sleep. He can definitely get loud (and wintertime is worse), but he's usually not loud enough to bother most people.
we have been trying to get him scheduled for a sleep study, though! His father does have sleep apnea, so it's been a concern of both of us for a while.
Good luck. I have sleep apnea myself and wife couldn't sleep in the same bed with me for a decade until I got a cpap machine 😅
Just download the stuff you want to watch to your phone and not use YouTube
Normally I'd prolly try and be super petty Redditor and say something like: "tHaT iSnT wHaT oP aSkEd"
But like... If they're just sleeping, I could see this working lmao. Just set whatever video player to loop, and bam. You could even make a little folder Playlist if you wanted extra stuff. Lol
The best app to do this is Seal, which can work standalone where you just give it a link, and also as a plugin for Revanced. Allows to download a full video, and also audio only.
Just turn off the time management reminders and that’s it
Grayjay
DL to MP3
browser addons that strip these nuisances
White noise machine. The end.
I use the Lectrofan Classic, I think I paid $60
More like how they don't want me to post anymore comments throughout the week, when they know how annoyed everybody is.