[Solved] No Sound on YouTube Videos? Here's How to Fix

Watching YouTube videos on a large computer screen is a pleasure. But no sound on some YouTube videos ruins the moment. If you want to solve YouTube sound problem on Windows 10/8/7 or Mac OS X/Sierra/High Sierra, just follow me and keep a further reading.

The first thing you should do is to check the audio setting on the desktop. YouTube won’t play a sound when the audio is muted or at lowest volume setting.

STEP 1. Click the volume icon in the system tray to check. If audio is muted, make the audio turn on again. If the audio is at the lowest volume setting, turn it up.
STEP 2. Right-click the volume icon and click Open Volume Mixer. Ensure that all options are on and turned up.

Sometimes, incompatible extensions in your Chrome or FireFox browser may cause no sound on YouTube videos. The faulty add-ons make YouTube sound not working in Chrome, Firefox, or other browsers. In this case, we should uninstall fault add-ons or play YouTube videos in an incognito window.

Check your add-ons which you installed recently and remove the faulty one.
STEP 1. Right-click the add-ons on the top right notification bar.
STEP 2. Remove Faulty Add-ons.

• If you are using Chrome, then, select "Remove from Chrome..."

• If you are using Firefox, click on "Remove from Toolbar".

Actually, watching YouTube videos in the incognito window can fix YouTube sound problem. Since all extensions in browser are forbidden to operate in incognito mode, incompatible adds-on won't affect YouTube video sound.

You can go incognito in Chrome by tapping on "New incognito window" or open an incognito window in Firefox by clicking on "New Private Window". Just go to click the three dots on the top right notification bar and you will find the selection in the list.

The best way to avoid no sound on YouTube videos issue is to download YouTube videos. You don't need to check audio settings in your desktop or any incompatible extensions in browsers. Before you enjoy watching offline YouTube videos, you need a YouTube video downloader. And, VidPaw is what you are looking for.

VidPaw is an online video & audio downloader which can help you free download YouTube videos or audio to Windows 7/8/10 or Mac. VidPaw also provides various output choices for users. You can download YouTube videos to MP4, 3GP, WEBM format in 720p 1080p, 2K, and other high quality. Better yet, VidPaw is so well-compatible that you can open VidPaw in any browser like Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, and more.

STEP 1. Open the YouTube video you'd like to download and copy its link.
STEP 2. Go to vidpaw.com and paste the link of YouTube videos to VidPaw's search box. Click the "Start" button.

STEP 3. After loading, you can select your favorite format and quality to download YouTube video. The MP4 format in 720p is highly recommended. Tap the "Download" button.

If you want more tricks to download YouTube videos in Windows 7/8/10 or Mac, please click the following post:
How to Download Online Videos on Mac/Windows for free

YouTube not playing sound may blame web browsers. No sound on some YouTube videos error occurs when your browser is not updated to the latest version. If YouTube sound not working in Chrome, try playing YouTube video in Firefox, IE or Safari. It may not work for everyone. But it's worth a try. If you find YouTube sound problem also exist on other browsers, it suggests you to update your browsers.

YouTube sound problem also happened on Android/ iPhone. Some users found that YouTube video is not playing sound on Android/ iPhone. Don't worry. Here are ways to fix YouTube sound problem in Android/iPhone.

Firstly, make sure your Android device or iPhone is not mute. Sometimes you may accidentally set the mute mode in your Android or iPhone so that YouTube videos won't play sound.

For Android users, you can turn up the volume button of Samsung S9+/S9/S8/S7/ Note 9, Huawei P20 Pro, and other Android devices to test whether your phone is in silent mode.

For iPhone users, you should check out the Ring/Silent button on iPhone X, iPhone 8/8 Plus, or iPhone 7/7 Plus. Toggle the button if it is in Silent mode.

A temporary system glitch of your phone may make YouTube sound not working. What you need to do is to reboot your phone to give it a refreshing start. YouTube videos may play normally after a refreshing start.

If you want to reboot your iPhone, hold the Power button and Home button until you see the Apple logo to signify the restart. 

There may some bugs in old YouTube app version resulting in the YouTube sound problem. Try to update the YouTube app or re-install YouTube app to the latest version. Bugs will be fixed and performance will be improved in the newest YouTube APK. You may find that YouTube videos play sound after updating to the newest version.

You can directly update the YouTube app by clicking the "Update" icon. There is something different of the button location between Android device and iPhone.

For Android users:

• Go to Play Store app> "My apps & games"> click "Update" next to YouTube icon.

For iPhone users:

• Go to App Store app> click "Update"> tap "Update" next to YouTube icon.

If you want the completely newest YouTube version, you may try to re-install the YouTube app. Here are steps to re-install YouTube app to its newest version.

To Android users:
STEP 1. Go to "Settings" and tap "Applications".
STEP 2. Scroll down to click YouTube app and then select uninstall option.
STEP 3. Go to the Play Store to install the latest YouTube APK.

To iPhone users:
STEP 1. Press the YouTube icon until all icons jiggle with the little x appearing on the upper left.
STEP 2. Tap on the little x of YouTube icon and click "Delete" if a message asks whether to delete the app.

STEP 3. Go to App Store to install latest YouTube version.

If you want to skip above methods to fix YouTube sound problem, you can download YouTube videos on mobile. Offline YouTube videos will play normally in Android/iPhone.

As we mentioned above, VidPaw is a great YouTube video & audio downloader. It helps YouTube video lovers to download YouTube videos to Android/iPhone. In addition to YouTube videos, VidPaw supports users to download videos and audio from more than 1,000 sites, like Facebook, Twitter, Vemo, and so on.

You can download YouTube videos to Android/iPhone by pasting the link into VidPaw's search bar, like the VidPaw download tutorial on Windows/Mac. Also, there is another trick to download YouTube videos to mobile by changing the URL address.

If you want to download YouTube videos to your Android devices:
STEP 1. Firstly replace "m" to "www".
STEP 2. Add "paw" behind "youtube".
STEP 3. Click the Enter button. In the download page, select your favorite output format and quality and download YouTube videos.

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Published on October 15, 2018