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YouTube Auto Quality — Always Play Videos in HD, 1080p or 4KReviews, users & alternatives

By PYROCTAL

Pick a default resolution once and YouTube stops lowering it: every video and Shorts, from 144p up to 8K.

  • Tools
  • Updated 7 days ago
Track on RadarChrome Web StoreStore
On the storeUnder a yrsApproximate
Users≈5KStore-rounded
Rating4.710 ratings
Updated3 Nov 2026v2.5.1
AccessLowNone sensitive

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Details

Website
Not listed
Version
2.5.1
Size
218KiB
Manifest
V3
Extension ID
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The maker

All 26 listings

PYROCTALUpdates often

26 listings · ≈12K users

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Permissions

What it can access, not what it does.

Low access

Asks only for everyday access, nothing we track as sensitive.

Browser access 1

Standard1

  • Save its own settingsstorage

Members see when a new version asks for more.

Website access 1

  • youtube.com and its subdomains

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YouTube Auto Quality at a glance

YouTube Auto Quality — Always Play Videos in HD, 1080p or 4K is a Tools extension by PYROCTAL with ≈5K users. Chrome Web Store users rate it 4.7 out of 5 from 10 ratings, which is still a small sample. By users it sits in the top 5% of Tools extensions. It was updated 7 days ago.

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Is YouTube Auto Quality safe? (permissions)

YouTube Auto Quality asks for 1 permission and access to 1 site pattern. None of them are on our list of wide-access permissions.

Permissions show what it could do, not what it does. See the full permission list.

YouTube Auto Quality not working?

  • 1 of the 4 reviews posted in the last 90 days gave 1 or 2 stars.
  • It was updated in the last two weeks. A fresh update can fix a problem, or occasionally cause one.

Common fixes

  • Update Chrome and the extension
  • Turn it off and on in chrome://extensions
  • Reload the page
  • Turn other extensions off in case two clash

Still stuck? Contact the maker or try an alternative.