Youtube Thumbnail Previews

Merlin5 · 4 Dec 2024 at 20:09

On my Fire TV Firestick, my youtube previews for some reason aren't playing anymore when I scroll over them. But if I switch to another of my accounts (that I never use) the previews play fine. In Settings/Previews where it says 'Videos will automatically play as you browse', I've always had it set to on. I've reset youtube and signed in again and even pulled the Firestick out from the HDMI socket and reinserted it. The previews still don't play. Very odd. Any ideas?

Diddums · 4 Dec 2024 at 20:55

Tried the same account on any other devices?

john_smith · 4 Dec 2024 at 21:10

I'd try clearing the app cache on the firestick.

Merlin5 · 4 Dec 2024 at 21:59

Diddums said:
Tried the same account on any other devices?

Yeah, works fine on my youtube app on my phone using the same account.

john_smith said:
I'd try clearing the app cache on the firestick.

Tried that but still doesn't work.

Merlin5 · 9 Dec 2024 at 00:51

I've got it back working now. I cleared the cache again and then did a firestick restart. Don't know why it didn't work when I cleared the cache a few days ago. Maybe doing a restart after made it work? Anyway, I'm happy the previews are working again.

Rroff · 9 Dec 2024 at 01:23

There is two settings in that bit about autoplay - can't recall the other one off the top of my head and also a separate data saver setting elsewhere as well which will prevent it - not sure if they are saved on a per account basis or global to the Firestick.