YouTube’s new screensaver can not be disabled. It does not discriminate between Premium and free users. Everyone gets to enjoy this wonderful tech advancement.

The YouTube app is showing previews of videos after the app sits idle 270 seconds — exactly 30 seconds before the Apple TV screensaver launches.

And those screensavers had a little “Press up to play” icon that, when pressed up, would open the full video of the screensaver. So, really it was YouTube repurposing other videos as screensavers.

So, no, you can’t turn off YouTube’s screensaver, and on Google TV or Android TV, it looks like the workaround used for Apple TV doesn’t work to the same effect.

The Apple TV’s screensaver is, as you would probably expect from an Apple creation, visually sumptuous and well-designed. But the YouTube screensaver is simply a mishmash of low-quality still ...

No YouTube screensaver. I asked around a few places and people reported that they don’t have the previously reported screensaver behavior now either,” Rosensteel wrote in his blog.

There is, however, a simple workaround that can prevent the YouTube app from successfully hijacking your Apple TV’s screensaver. The YouTube app appears to start its screen saver after around 4 ...

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You can let the YouTube app run idle on Apple TV without fear of YouTube showing you a screensaver before Apple's own screensaver can launch. Crisis averted.

Our long national nightmare is over. As spotted by the folks who blew the whistle in the first place (and picked up by 9to5Mac), you can now use the YouTube app on Apple TV without fear that YouTube ...