What are some iOS YouTube front ends without ads alternatives?

You could try vinegar which is a great ios safari extension for YouTube in the browser if that’s good enough

I just tried Vinegar, but it doesn’t work for me. I still see ads on every video. Any idea why? Not trying to blame you or anything, just wondering.

Yes, I have it enabled.

Edit: I guess I have to refresh each time maybe? Not sure. It seems to work after a page refresh.

Been paying for YouTube premium for about 8 months now and I think it’s worth every dollar.

Yeah, I've paid for it for years. I'm OK with helping the creators that way and never having to jump through all the ad block hoops.
- Yeah I’m a pretty big fan of ‘streamlined stuff that just works as intended’. That’s why I own Apple products to begin with and I basically apply that ethos to everything else in life. So I pay for YouTube , get a better experience and I don’t have to mess with anything.
Especially if you VPN and pay from another country 😉
- Do you have to watch via vpn too or just pay?
- what’s the cheapest country to use?
  
  I rarely use youtube on my phone but if the price is right I might snag premium just to have it for when I do want to watch while mobile
Yup, since I watch YouTube almost daily, it’s kind of a nobrainer. I’m happy they offer a version without ads.

I use the Safari extension Vinegar, which is paid but universal from macOS to iOS. It replaces the YouTube player by the default HTML5 one, preventing Google from getting events that trigger ads.

I'm using uYouPlus via sidestore/wireguard configuration. It was a bit painful to setup and I still need to spend 5sec per week to 'Refresh" it but I think it's definitely worth it in order to have an exact clone of Youtube without ads + background play :) that's at least for me as I don't want to settle for any alternatives

I use Safari with the AdGuard (free tier) app. Haven't seen a YouTube ad in months.

I’m using safari and the vinegar extension, which is blocking ads and enables Picture in Picture.

Wouldn’t the extension be affected by this?

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/29/23778879/youtube-videos-disabling-ad-blockers-detection
- I guess so, but they’re just testing it so it still works. Hopefully for longer

I have to second vinegar. It’s absolutely perfect in all my Apple devices. It works by switching the YouTube player to a much faster HTML5 video player. So it’s much faster, you get iOS’s built scrubbing, PiP, and ad-blocking.

Yattee, it uses piped. If configured right its basically like the youtube app without ads.

https://github.com/yattee/yattee

This post helped me figure out how to set up Yattee and connect my Invidious account to it.

https://teddit.pussthecat.org/r/Yattee/comments/13d3lj7/how_to_set_up_and_use_yattee_to_watch_youtube/

I’d really just pay for YouTube Premium. Well worth it, and you support creators!

I do but honestly 18€/month (family plan, we’re 2) is a bit pricey considering that I mostly use YouTube Music, I use YouTube mainly to listen to some content before to sleep and won’t want loud ads at 3AM lol

I’d rather pay for Apple One and get music, storage, TV and some games for the same price
- I’ve paid for YouTube for years and the price has definitely gotten out of hand, I used a VPN to sign up for it in Turkey a few months ago and it’s like 10% of what I was previously paying, only a couple dollars a month.
- Damn, are they high? If I had to pay 18EUR for YT I'd rather cut on my YT usage.

I use AltStore and side load UYou+. Takes like 30 seconds a week, never have ads, notifications, and it skips stuff like self-promotions. I enjoy it

I used Video Lite for like a year before I sideloaded uYou+. Video lite is your best choice without sideloading. No video ads and they play in the background without premium, though you get in-app ads past the free trial

There’s a learning curve but it’s hard to beat AltStore with https://qnblackcat.github.io/AltStore/ apps. Same experience as the official apps, but with ads removed. It also should defeat all tbt Adblock detection YouTube is trialing now.

I’m using Brave Browser for YouTube to avoid advertisements

Same! I use Brave and it works great

Video lite. But it has some ads which I don't see because of adguard dns.

Video lite App Store link

I just tried it and it looks actually like a really good solution. But it’s just using the YouTube website with probably an ad blocker as well so I’m not sure if that’s gonna survive if Google decides to do something about it.

It’s also a bit sad to have the app’s ads instead, but still. I think it looks promising so far.
- Don't use youtube that often but it's only solution that works on ios whit out youtube premium to get rid of those annoying ads 😐
I use video lite and it’s awesome. $1.50 every 3 months gets you no ads too. I’m sure YT will kill these off at some point but it’s a great solution for now.

It's beyond worth it to just pay them the money. I kind of hate that they won, but this way I never see an ad no matter where I watch, and the creators I enjoy still get money out of my views. I would pay for more services if they had a No Ads option. (I might have gotten convinced to get Twitter Blue if it had 0 ads instead of just halving them...)

Invidious or https://piped.video

Video Lite is nice, I've been using it for a while now.

Wow been looking for something like this for ages and gave up. Seems to work really well. Thanks!
- It does show its own ads after the 15 day trial though. I’m still in the trial so not sure how annoying they are, but apparently shippable.

I've been using Revanced, which is a clone ofthe vanced project that got shut down last year. It's really nice and has a bunch of convenient features

Revanced is Android exclusive tho
- My bad, when I saw this post i didnt realize it was an apple sub. Disregard my comment!

It's not going to change. You just have to accept it.