YouTube Music is one of the best Spotify alternatives you can download right now. However, like Spotify, it’s not free. You have to pay a monthly subscription for unlimited use of the app. Fortunately, Android can be upgraded to make YouTube Music Premium benefits completely free. And no, you don’t have to install a pirated APK that puts your phone at risk.
In this tutorial, we’ll teach you step-by-step how to install YouTube Music Premium on Android for free, using the ReVanced Manager app (yes, the same one you used to install YouTube ReVance) legally, manually editing the official app. Without further ado, follow the instructions below.
Why not install YouTube Music Premium APK?
First of all, it seems important to explain why simply hacked YouTube Music Premium APK doesn’t provide you. After all, the easiest thing is to install the APK with all the benefits unlocked and that’s it. However, this method (besides being illegal) is not very reliable, because the person who modified the official APK may have added a backdoor, malware or any other modification that could harm your mobile.
So the best thing you can do is to update the official app yourself using open source tools (100% safe) provided by the community. This way you will be absolutely sure that the application is malware free and no one will steal your data.
Steps to install YouTube Music Premium on Android for free
To get YouTube Music Premium for free on your Android, do the following.
Download ReVanced Manager APK (If you don’t see it, click on “Properties” and select the option that weighs about 40 MB) Open the downloaded APK and click on Install. Open ReVanced Manager and allow the load application from sources License Unknown In addition, ReVanced Manager will ask you to download additional necessary files. Press OK.
Now, go to Patcher option, you will see YouTube Music as an option (if you have installed it on your mobile) with a box that says “Recommended”. It will suggest the YouTube Music APK version you should download, but if there is “any version”, simply download the latest version of YouTube Music available on APKMirror.
Once the APK is downloaded, go back to the ReVanced Manager (in the “Select App” section) and select the APK you just downloaded and click the Patch button.
If everything went well, you will see the “Stuck” message above. Click on Install. And if a pop-up window appears, click Reinstall.In the YouTube Music window, after the installation is finally finished, click Open.
You will see the message “MicroG GmsCore not installed”. Install” and you will be redirected to the GitHub page where you can download MicroG. Unless your mobile phone is Xiaomi or Huawei, press the download button (in this case, press the download button in the “Huawei, Xiaomi” box), open the downloaded APK and press to install the services. After MicroG is installed, tap Open.
Sign in to your Google account. Tap Sign in and follow the prompts to sign in to your account. Once you’ve set up your account in MicroG, you’ll see a warning again. Disable battery optimization for MicroG, so tap Continue and then Allow.
If you have done everything correctly, no YouTube Music Premium ads should appear in the app since you have all the benefits. By the way, this version of YouTube Music you installed is also known as “YouTube Music ReVanced”, so it has been updated in the same way as YouTube Revanced and Revanced Extended.
