
Once the update process finishes, check if the update for YouTube can be installed on your Android. In this case, please go to Settings > System > Software update to check if a version is available for your Android if yes, update your Android to this version. When the version of the operating system on your Android is incompatible with the version of the updated version of YouTube, you will fail to update the YouTube app. If clearing YouTube cache is not helpful, please continue to clear the cache Google Play Store and Google Play Services by repeating the above steps.

Then, try installing or updating YouTube on your phone and see if the process will go smoothly. If your phone comes with an SD card, please remove it and insert it into the SD card slot again after a few seconds. Wait for a few seconds and then disable the airplane mode. To enable the airplane mode, you need to drag the notification panel or pane and tap on the Airplane mode icon. Try enabling the airplane mode to disconnect your phone from any cellular and other networks temporarily. If the issue “YouTube not updating on phone” persists after using Wi-Fi, please try the following solutions. This because Google Play Store downloads update only when the Wi-Fi is enabled. Please connect to Wi-Fi if you want to update YouTube on your phone.

If the solution does not help, please move to the following solutions. This solution can remove some unknown factors behind the issue.

Have you restarted your phone when you can’t install or update YouTube on your phone? If not, please have a try.
