


Thank you all for supporting us over the years," a post read on the Twitter handle of the Vanced application. We know this is not something you wanted to hear but it's something we need to do. In the coming days, the download links on the website will be taken down. Hopefully, YouTube will take a page from the Vanced app to improve the YouTube Premium making it more appealing.Android users will no longer be able to use the popular YouTube Vanced application.Īs per The Verge, the creators of Vanced have decided to shut down the application in the coming days due to "legal reasons". The team also informed that the current app may still work for about two years, but after that, there will be only one alternative left that is Google’s own YouTube Premium which, despite being a paid app, is far away from all the features that Vanced offered. “We know this is not something you wanted to hear, but it’s something we need to do.” “Vanced has been discontinued,” read a Telegram message from the Vanced owners. Previously, the search giant also targeted Discord music bots resulting in the popular Rhythm bot to seize operation. Vanced is the most recent target of Google’s action against third-party apps that access YouTube. Admin from the Vanced team said, “We were asked to remove all references to ‘YouTube’, change the logo, and remove all links related to YouTube products.” Thank you all for supporting us over the years.Īfter google sent a cease and desist letter to Vanced owners, they were forced to stop distributing and developing the app.

Vanced also includes a true black theme, picture in picture video, background playback, Force HDR Mode and other customizations not offered in the official YouTube for Android app. The creators have announced that the project will be shut down in the coming days, with download links set to be removed.įor those unaware, Vanced is a popular third-party YouTube app for Android, particularly because it allows YouTube users to block all video ads on YouTube without a Premium subscription. YouTube Vanced announced that it will discontinue the app, due to a legal threat from google.
