YouTube Go goes away for good in August. The YouTube Team has announced that it is retiring the light-weight various to its primary app, primarily as a result of it has develop into pointless through the years. YouTube developed the Go software for customers the place connectivity is spotty, cellular information costs are prohibitive and low-end telephones that could not run the principle app in addition to dearer gadgets might had been widespread. The group defined that since Go was first launched in 2016, YouTube has rolled out a lot of efficiency enhancements to the principle app.

Some of these upgrades enable the principle app to run extra effectively on entry-level gadgets and for folks with gradual networks. The group says it is also engaged on new controls that may assist folks decrease their cellular information utilization if they’ve restricted entry to it, although it did not say when the brand new characteristic can be out there. It’s now advising Go customers to obtain the principle software, which not like the light-weight model permits folks to remark, publish, create content material and use the darkish theme.

YouTube Go was initially out there in India and Indonesia earlier than making its method out of beta and into broad launch again in 2017. In 2018, YouTube rolled it out to over 130 international locations, so extra customers can obtain the 10MB app. Now it is time to bid it farewell. As 9to5Google notes, this raises questions concerning the want for Android Go sooner or later. The OS permits low cost telephones to run quicker, however there might come a time when the principle Android platform can run as effectively on low-end gadgets.