Open
YouTube Links in
iPhone's Browser
If you install YouTube's app on an iPhone or iPad, all the
YouTube Links from Safari will
Open in the
YouTube app. What if you want to
Open an
YouTube video in Safari? Maybe you want to bookmark it or maybe you get a message like "YouTube video **t available on mobile" and you need to switch to the desktop interface to watch it. Here's what you need to do:
1. long press the link (tap and hold)
2. select "copy"
3.
Open a new tab
4. paste the link
5. replace "www" with "m", so that "
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=" becomes "
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=" and tap "go".
The explanation is that the
Links to the mobile
YouTube site (m.youtube.com) aren't intercepted by the app.
A**ther option is to install a different
Browser like
Chrome, which doesn't
Open the
YouTube app when you click on a link to a
YouTube video. You can also uninstall the official
YouTube app and install a third-party app like
McTube.
If you're using Android, this trick worked for me in both Chrome and the stock browser: long press the
YouTube link and select "open in [new] incognito tab".
