YouTube Music Adds Offline Lyrics Support for Downloaded Songs

YouTube Music has been silently updated with a new feature that allows users to view lyrics when offline. Users who have downloaded tracks with lyrics on YouTube Music will now be able to see them when their phone doesn’t have an internet connection. The Alphabet owned music streaming platform added the functionality ahead of rivals Spotify and Apple Music, which currently do not display lyrics when a device is offline. The service previously added support for voting on songs in collaborative playlists.

YouTube Music Now Shows Lyrics Automatically for Downloaded Songs

A Reddit user recently discovered that lyrics for downloaded tracks were available on YouTube Music for Android (via Android Authority). There’s no mention of the feature in the release notes for recent versions of the app via the Play Store, and the feature appears to have been silently enabled by the company. 

Gadgets 360 was unable to confirm that the feature was working on YouTube Music for Android, even after installing the latest version of the app. When it is available, users will be able to tap the Lyrics tab to view lyrics for a song while offline. Meanwhile, user reports suggest that the feature is currently unsupported on YouTube Music for iOS. 

It’s worth noting that while rivals Spotify and Apple Music also let users view lyrics while listening to songs, both of these platforms have yet to add support for offline lyrics. The feature can come in handy while listening to music when you don’t have an internet connection. These include long haul flights, or passing through an area that has poor network coverage while taking the metro.

Last month, YouTube announced that it was adding support for “voting” in playlists. This feature is available in collaborative playlists, which allow users to create playlists together, and it adds new upvote and downvote buttons to each song in a playlist.

Once this feature is enabled on a user’s account, they can vote on tracks in a collaborative playlist, and it will move the track to the top or the bottom of the list. The ability to vote on these playlists is currently available on YouTube Music and the main YouTube app, according to the company.