More YouTube Premium Plans Are Coming

YouTube is working on new plans for its YouTube Premium subscriptions, the company said in a community post on Thursday. “We’re committed to giving members more plan options by expanding our existing offerings to more regions, while also introducing new plans and exploring ways for you to share your benefits with your friends in the future,” according to a post from a YouTube team member identified as Hazel.

Currently, there are only a handful of YouTube Premium plans: Individual for $13.99 per month (or 12 months for $139.99); Family for $22.99 per month; and Student for $7.99 per month. By subscribing, you get benefits like ad-free videos, the ability to download videos for offline viewing, and ad-free access to the YouTube Music library. Thursday’s post didn’t specify what the new plans might look like or what benefits you might share, and YouTube did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

YouTube is also adding new features for Premium subscribers, as detailed in the community post and a separate blog post. An AI-powered “ahead of time” feature that recently launched on Android is coming to iOS “in the coming weeks.” On Android, Premium users will be able to watch YouTube Shorts in picture-in-picture mode (a feature already available on TikTok).

Premium subscribers will also have access to a handful of experiences they can participate in, including automatically downloading batches of Shorts to your phone so you can watch them offline, a conversational AI assistant (which the company is bringing back after a previous test), and a redesigned watch page on desktop.