Hi all,
Long time lurker, first time poster. Glad to join this place after the TS forums went down.
I’ve been an Android user for quite a while, and I have yet to understand how to get around the following problem. In the house we have just WiFi and a television connected to it, for Netflix and Youtube, hence we also do not have a need for a chromecast.
My issue is that I keep accidentally connecting my phone Nokia 8 updated to Oreo (previously Galaxy A5) to our tv by accidentally pressing the “watch on tv” button, when I am using the youtube app on my phone. The problem is that I do not want this to happen, because there are other people watching the damn tv. Every bloody time I change the resolution of the video in the app on my phone, I accidentally connect it to the tv, as the damn “watch on tv button” is right next to it.
I have tried turning off everything from disabling google Nearby, to denying all the app permissions for Google Services as well as Youtube. Yet, that damn thing is still in the app.
Does anybody have any suggestions on how this could be solved, or worked around. The only solution so far is to turn off the TV completely, or just use YouTube on my phone over a 3G connections.
Thank you in advance
[EDIT: this has been solved by downloading NewPipe like Eden has suggested]