To improve the viewing experience, YouTube may automatically apply visual and/or audio enhancements to your content. These enhancements can improve video quality or make audio clearer and more balanced. They are not applied to every video.
About video & audio enhancements
Visual enhancements can help improve a viewer’s watch experience. These enhancements may include:
- Adjustments to brightness or color
- Increased video clarity and sharpness
- Increased video resolution with Super resolution, which uses Google-built technology to make low resolution uploads look like they were filmed in HD
Audio enhancements can help improve a viewer's audio experience. These enhancements may include:
- Automatic adjustments to volume levels and sound mixing
- A more comfortable listening experience with Stable volume, an enhancement that balances the range between quiet and loud parts of a video, reducing variations in sound
- Voice boost, which makes it easier to hear dialogue by reducing background sound and highlighting speech
We apply certain enhancements when we expect they will improve the viewing experience. However, we understand that some creators may prefer their content to look and sound as close to the original as possible. Enhancement settings give you control over the default viewing experience for your channel’s content. To ensure every viewer can engage with your content in a way that suits them, their individual accessibility settings may take precedence in some cases.
Some enhancements, like Stable volume or Super resolution, may have separate controls for viewers. If you disable enhancements for your channel, viewers may not be able to use these features.
You can manage whether these enhancements are applied to your channel's future uploads using the visual and audio quality enhancements settings. The setting does not affect ads or videos you already uploaded.
Turn visual & audio quality enhancement settings on or off
- Sign in to YouTube Studio on your computer.
- Click Settings
Channel
- Check or uncheck the Let YouTube enhance visual quality box.
- Check or uncheck the Let YouTube enhance audio quality box.
- Click Save.
