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In the AppStore, search Vinegar. Works for me. 👍

Use the Yattee app and connect it to your preferred invidious or piped instance.

There’s a lot of strange answers here.

1. AdGuard extensions for Safari successfully block all YouTube ads, although in my experience you have to keep reloading the page.
2. I also use uYouPlus, but you have to remember to connect it to your computer once a week, which blows.

Not many options out there for native apps, but you can use an Invidious or Piped proxy and pin the website as an "app".

There are a handful of options if you’re looking for a tweaked version of the YouTube app (no jailbreak needed) with enhanced options (blocking ads, skipping sponsored segments, allowing downloads, enabling PiP)

I personally use YouTube Reborn Plus https://github.com/arichorn/YouTubeRebornPlus

As for loading the IPA onto my iPhone I use Sideloadly. https://sideloadly.io

I know a lot of others use AltStore. https://altstore.io

Keep in mind, if you have a paid Apple Dev account like myself you only have to load the app on your device once a year. But, if you have a free account you’ll need to do this weekly. That being said, that is why so many users prefer AltStore, it automates the process to ensure you don’t hit that weekly threshold.

I watch it in the orion browser with ublock

There definitely is a way with jailbreaking, as I’m sure there are tweaks for youtube on the repos. But that requires an exploit.

With no jailbreak - you can sideload this: https://github.com/qnblackcat/uYouPlus

Anyone have anything that works on Apple TV? I have some invidious app or other that basically never works, at all.

iOS doesn’t give many options to remove ads from YouTube videos. You can’t really circumvent the native YT app (at least in my experience). What’s worked for me for the past few years is:

• watching Youtube in Safari
• purchasing the Wipr and Vinegar extensions from the App store

I have not seen a single ad on iOS on YouTube this way. I’m pretty sure Vinegar is doing the heavy lifting specifically on YouTube but Wipr picks up the slack on every other website.

I use an app called Orion, which is a browser, you can add extensions from Firefox and chrome.

Piped no ads built in sponsor block and many instances have region bypass

Firefox Focus appears to let me play youtube without ads, but I’m unclear if it’s because I also have the Vinegar extension (which shouldn’t matter, since the extension itself says it only works in Safari.)