You'll have to uninstall the originals (including Vanced microG) and install the mods through the modded Vanced Manager.Ī lot of you will ask if this is safe to install. Original versions of the Vanced apps cannot coexist with these mods, and they cannot be updated in place, either. Modified versions of Vanced Manager, YouTube Vanced, YouTube Music Vanced, and Vanced microG are available. He is also improving the other Vanced apps. Google mostly tends to leave the Android modding community alone, but profiting off your legally dubious mod is sure to bring out the lawyers.A modder called inotia00 is combining the extra features in the last released version of YouTube Vanced with later official versions of YouTube and releasing the results. Just last month, Team Vanced pulled a provocative stunt involving minting a non-fungible token of the Vanced logo, and there's solid speculation that this action is what drew Google's ire.

It's not clear why Google took so long to kill the app, and there are still plenty of popular alternative YouTube clients, like the FOSS app NewPipe, that Google isn't going after. Over its five-year lifetime, Vanced was so popular that it once accidentally showed up in an official Samsung video. Vanced was, of course, not allowed in the Play Store, so an open source 'Vanced Manager' app could check for updates, install both Vanced apps, and install a modded version of MicroG so you could log in with your Google account. Team Vanced also released 'YouTube Music Vanced,' which made similar changes to the YouTube Music app. In addition, Vanced re-enabled YouTube's removed 'Dislike' button and got rid of the YouTube Shorts UI. Vanced didn't just block ads, though it also added a bunch of community-requested features like a darker dark theme, SponsorBlock integration, and video quality preferences.

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