YouTube is starting videos at the midpoint or even at the end of the video on my Apple TV 4K

This was the fix! Thank you so much.

Im having the same issue. I thought I was going crazy. Then I realized most of these videos that start like this have been posted earlier in the day, and I haven't watched YouTube since the prior night.

I am also having an issue with the autoplay. Sometimes it will spit me back out to the login screen for the different YouTube profiles, other times it will spit me back to the YouTube home screen, and then once or twice it just stayed on a black screen.

Setting to 4k HDR fixed playback for me as well. I'm still getting videos starting at random points though. So frustrating.

Had video that was posted 50 mins before I watched it this morning start with like 30 secs remaing.

Having the same issue on my 2022 AppleTV 4K. It will start a YouTube video just before its end, or a few minutes into it. Often, it'll stop playing a video and just return to the main menu/Home Screen of the AppleTV or it'll go to the main menu/Home Screen by merely having pressed up on the direction pad. I'll go into settings and "reset" the AppleTV and it'll work the rest of the day, but it'll eventually return to operating as mentioned before not too long after.

Sure it’s not Apple responsibility to fix other apps bugs but unfortunately in the last few years, many times Apple has problems especially with ATV. HomeKit is another area that Apple TV as a hub, had many problems. In iOS 17 they had so many bugs that after some time I just stopped fixing the Automations and when new release came most of the automations that stopped working with previous OS, were working again. But unfortunately at the same time new bugs were introduced.

it is really annoying!

And note that I’m actually as my son called me - An Apple Fanatic - my family is all Apple and I have every Apple device possible and Macs.

I cannot watch Youtube or most other apps on my Apple TV 4K due to constant buffering, VERY poor sound and video quality, video's starting over after an Ad, constant app crashes and numerous other issues. I have rebooted, updated, etc until I'm sick to death and I wish I had never purchased it! I bought an XBOX a couple of weeks ago (October 2024) and put ALL the apps on it (even Apple TV software and Apple Music works better on the XBOX than on the Apple TV 4K Hardware!) and EVERYTHING now works smoothly with no sound or video issues, no buffering, and without ANY of the issues I experienced using the APPLE TV hardware. My hardware Apple TV is now in the closet where it belongs along with the Apple HomePod mini, Magic Mouse (what designer felt a charging port on the bottom of a mouse was an intelligent decision? LMFAO), and as soon as I get my new Windows desktop from Santa my 24" M1 iMac will join them in the closet. All have been bitter disappointments and a complete waste of money. All the products are very pretty, they just don't function as they should except in very limited circumstances and with quite specific requirements with very narrow tolerances. IMO the iPhone is the only apple product that is still worth keeping although even it is starting to get buggier and buggier with each new iOS update!

It all started happening since the new Apple OS was released. Which makes me wonder if it’s YouTube or ATV problem???

You Tube is running smoothly with the 4KSDR setting active

Same situation here. Some videos start in the middle some show already watched!

Same issues happening here!

For anyone who changed their settings for this - I stubbornly refused and have just been dealing with it, but today it’s fixed! So hopefully you can change your settings back now.