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Google has launched a new YouTube Progressive Web App (PWA), which enables the website to work like an app on your phone. PWA support was earlier added to YouTube Music and YouTube TV.
Google had recently announced that it's bringing its Stadia Cloud gaming service on iOS as a PWA. Google Developers say that PWAs use modern web capabilities to deliver an app-like user experience. "They evolve from pages in browser tabs to immersive, top-level apps, maintaining the web's low friction at every moment," the company says in a blog post.
When on YouTube.com on Google Chrome or any other browser, a small plus (+) icon appears in the address bar, which prompts users to "Install app". The is different from the browser's manual overflow menu 'Install' option which will install the YouTube app on your device and has been there since a while.