More YouTube Premium plans are coming

YouTube is working on new plans for its YouTube Premium subscriptions, the company said in a community post on Thursday. “We are committed to bringing members more plan options by expanding our existing offerings to more regions, while introducing new plans and exploring ways for you to share your benefits with friends in the future,” according to a post from a YouTube team member identified as Hazel.

Currently, there are only a few YouTube Premium plans: Individual for $13.99 per month (or 12 months for $139.99); Family for $22.99 per month; It is Student for $7.99 per month. When you sign up, you get perks like ad-free videos, the ability to download videos to watch offline, and ad-free access to the YouTube Music library. Thursday’s post didn’t specify what any of the new plans would look like or what benefits you could share, and YouTube didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

YouTube is also adding new features for Premium subscribers, as detailed in the community post and a separate blog post. An AI-powered “jump forward” feature recently launched on Android is coming to iOS “in the coming weeks.” On Android, Premium users will be able to watch YouTube Shorts in picture-in-picture mode (a feature that is now available on TikTok).

Premium subscribers will also have access to some experiments they can chooseincluding automatically downloading batches of Shorts to your phone so you can watch offline, a conversational AI assistant (which the company is bringing back after a previous test), and a redesigned desktop watch page.