T YouTube · Install Tutorial
~5 minute setup ✅ v1.1.0 stable update

Get T YouTube
running on your phone

Most people get stuck on one thing only: this app needs microG-RE instead of Google Play Services, and it must be installed first. This page shows the whole thing — a screen recording, every step, and what each screen should look like.

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Android 10+ required 212 MB APK 107 MB microG-RE Works on arm64 + 32-bit
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Screen recording

The whole install, start to finish. If the video is still processing, the written steps below are complete on their own.

▸ Tap play — the recording is under 15 MB, so it should start quickly.

This recording predates v1.1.0. The install flow is unchanged, but the download dialog now opens with the real video title and the fullscreen watermark is smaller. A fresh recording is tracked in issue #5.
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The steps

Follow in order. Skipping step 1 or 2 is the #1 reason nothing works.

01

Download microG-RE

Tap the first button below. It lands the official MicroG RE APK straight into your downloads — 107 MB, works on every phone.

Before you start: if Google Play Services is installed on this phone, disable or uninstall it first. microG and Play Services cannot run together, and T YouTube will not start while Play Services is active.
02

Install it

Open the downloaded microg-7.2.1.apk and tap Install. Android will ask you to allow "Install unknown apps" for your browser or file manager — tap Allow and come back. This prompt only appears once.

03

Turn on signature spoofing

Open microG-RE → Settings → Signature spoofing → switch on T YouTube. Then go back.

This is the step almost everyone forgets. Without it the app installs fine but sign-in and video playback silently fail.
04

Install T YouTube

Tap the second button, open T-YouTube-v1.1.0.apk, tap Install. Allow the unknown-app prompt if it appears.

Already have YouTube Pro v59 on the phone? It installs straight on top — no uninstall, and your logins and watch history stay.
05

Open it — and that's it

Launch T YouTube from your app drawer. Sign in, and it plays.

Two things to look for: the launcher icon is the T mark, and the in-app header reads T YouTube — not "YouTube Pro".
Verify

What each screen should look like

Real captures from the v1.0.0 build. Use them to confirm you did each step right.

Player screen with download, SponsorBlock and dislike controls
PlayerDownload button, SponsorBlock and Return-YouTube-Dislike — all three visible in one frame.
Settings screen titled T YouTube
Settings — rebrand proofToolbar reads T YouTube, full patch menu intact.
Music tab with T YouTube header
Music tab — rebrand proofRebuilt in-app wordmark: T logo + “T YouTube”.
Download dialog with quality picker
DownloaderQuality picker, 144p → 1080p60.
Watch screen with music player
Watch screenPlayback, comments, music player.
Get the files

Download

Both buttons go straight to the file — one tap, no extra page.

Required · install first

microG-RE

The Google Play Services replacement T YouTube runs on. Nothing works without it, and it must be in place before the app.

107 MB · universal · Apache-2.0 Download microG-RE
The app · after microG-RE

T YouTube v1.1.0

The official stable update. Installs straight over v1.0.1 or any earlier test build without touching your logins, settings or downloads.

212 MB · Android 10+ · universal Download T YouTube

SHA-256 for T YouTube v1.1.0 (stable) · 337f55a17c8fdd1ae458a4ab9e76ca3bd1335c3865ca0bb5de055fd078496d5c

✅ Official stable update · v1.1.0

Shorts branding, the watermark and the download button are now stable

Everything that was first shipped and verified as the Zversion 4 test build is now the recommended download. v1.1.0 fixes the three things that were still broken on the phone — the Shorts arrow never became the brand loop, tapping the toolbar download button did nothing, and the watermark sat too high — each at its actual root cause, and it keeps every v1.0.1 playback/download/theme fix.

  • Shorts brand loop, on every Shorts page. Shorts had two views with the same reel_back_button id: the non-video and survey pages <include> a second layout that still shipped the plain white arrow, so findViewById() could hand the player that arrow instead of the loop. Both now carry the 8-second loop, and it restarts once the view really has focus so it can no longer freeze on the arrow.
  • The download confirm button works again. v1.0.1’s proven checkSelectedDownload is restored byte for byte (verified with a diff — only 4 hunks) and only gains the duplicate handling below.
  • Automatic duplicate naming — no extra taps. Downloading the same title again saves Title (1).mp4 and starts immediately. No prompt, no overwrite. Pending and Running downloads only show a Cancel-only dialog and are never overwritten. The filename still opens with the real video title.
  • Watermark smaller and lower. A subtle 14 sp T YouTube wordmark (32 dp) at the bottom of the control row, below the scrubber line, hidden in sync with the controls. Fullscreen portrait and landscape only — absent inline, in PiP and in Shorts.
  • Installs straight over v1.0.1 — same signature, same version number (21.26.364). The About screen shows 21.20.402 (v1.1.0) so you can confirm it.
  • Everything in v1.0.1 is kept: the short-title download crash stays fixed, downloads complete, long-video seeking resumes at the chosen quality, Shorts do not stall, and dark theme stays the default.
  • To go back: install v1.0.1 again over it. No data is lost.
Download stable v1.1.0 (212 MB) Release notes & checksum ↗

Verified APK · promoted from test-v1.1.0 without rebuilding · SHA-256 337f55a17c8fdd1ae458a4ab9e76ca3bd1335c3865ca0bb5de055fd078496d5c

Previous stable — v1.0.1

The previous recommended download

v1.0.1 is still published and still installs in place. Install it over v1.1.0 if you ever want to go back — same signature, no data loss. It fixed the download crash on short titles, made downloads complete, restored long-video seeking, stopped Shorts from stalling, and set the dark theme as the default.

Download stable v1.0.1 (212 MB) Release notes & checksum →

Size: 222,566,961 bytes
SHA-256: 71B0F782702129A0DDCC80EE0A7150F52FE0099671AB62692766B1C605EBE7FE

Stuck?

Common problems

These cover almost every failure. Try them in order.

“App not installed as package conflicts with an existing package”
A differently-signed copy of the same package is already installed, so Android refuses to replace it.
  • Uninstall the existing YouTube Pro build — this clears its app data.
  • Then install T YouTube. From now on, always update from this build and the error will not come back.
App installs, but it says “MicroG Not Installed”
microG-RE is not running, or signature spoofing is off.
  • Open microG-RE once so it finishes setting up.
  • Then Settings → Signature spoofing → enable T YouTube.
  • If Play Services is still installed, disable it.
Android says “for your security, your phone is not allowed to install unknown apps”
Expected on first install. Tap Settings on that screen, allow Install unknown apps for the app you downloaded from (browser or file manager), then press back and tap Install again.
Videos will not play / everything is blank
microG needs background permission on some phones. In microG-RE settings, exclude it from battery optimisation, and check Settings → Signature spoofing is enabled.
Download still fails / says “file not created”
  1. Open Settings → Downloads → download folder and choose Internal storage (not the SD card), then retry the same video.
  2. If it works on internal storage, the old folder/SD card was the problem.
  3. If it still fails, send the video title or link and the exact error text.
Can I keep the official YouTube too?
Yes — the packages differ, so both can be installed side by side. But since T YouTube needs microG and Play Services cannot coexist with it, in practice you will want only one.
Does it remove in-video ads?
It removes the mod's own startup promo popup. In-stream advertising is served by YouTube's servers and is a separate matter.