Title pretty much says it all; when you click on a linked youtube channel on mobile, it does not work. It says the OS is too low. This currently appears to be Android only, (might even be A11 related,) but if it happens on Apple please let me know.
Click, and you will receive an error message telling you your software needs to be updated.
This seems to happen 100% of the time for me.
As always, if I am missing something, or you have something to add on, please let me know. I would like to get confirmation this is happening. I only started noticing this in the last week.
I have an iPhone 7 and everything works as normal. So it might be your phone or an android issue. Remember, Android is open source so anyone can modify it.
It’s a Roblox issue alright. Clicking YouTube links from anywhere else do not result in an error. It probably has to do with the latest update, and it might have somehow lost compatibility for A11. I will check the FFlag Watcher.
On android, it looks like it uses a custom web browser (or just a web browser that doesnt support youtube) and tries to open Youtube in the browser. It doesn’t have support for it so it will show an error.
I just find it hard to believe its a Roblox problem in relation to how iPhone users aren’t experiencing the same issue. At its core, although Android and iOS is treated differently for displaying the visuals the same redirect links should apply. In this scenario, its essentially just opening YouTube within the app (not sure on the methodology behind this part as I’m an iOS user personally).
Roblox was last updated on the 29th of October on Android (source Google Play) - so unless its been happening since then its likely YouTube has changed something on their end so either:
something has broken in the integration stage between YouTube and Roblox (aka it should fix in time as YouTube will need to fix this),
something has changed in the integration stage between YouTube and Roblox (as such yes, Roblox needs to adapt the app to handle it).
I’m just more leaning on YouTube being at fault mostly.
I disagree. I only noticed this issue recently, so the latest update likely has something to do with it. It also appears that the app has had some issues since the last update. These issues do lead me to believe that this is an issue on Roblox’s end. If it is entirely Roblox – that’s unlikely, It’s a good theory that YouTube changed something and Roblox needs to adapt – then hopefully they can roll something out, as this could potentially be severely affecting some users who promote their channel on Roblox.
Its probably just a Roblox problem, not a YouTube problem. What it does on Android is it tries to open the YouTube website in some weird browser still in the Roblox app. What it should do is open the YouTube app instead. If it was a YouTube problem, it would show up in the YouTube app, not on the YouTube website in the Roblox app. I could be wrong but I think that’s whats happening.
