Tech Desk 
Jun 26, 2025
YouTube Music has quietly updated with a new feature that allows users to view lyrics when offline. Users who have downloaded tracks with lyrics on YouTube Music will now be able to see them.
The Alphabet-owned music streaming platform added the functionality ahead of rivals Spotify and Apple Music, which currently do not display lyrics when a device is offline.
YouTube Music's new update
A Reddit user recently discovered that lyrics for downloaded tracks were available on YouTube Music for Android (via Android Authority). There's no mention of the feature in the release notes for recent versions of the app via the Play Store, while the feature appears to have been silently enabled by the company.
However, when it is officially available, users can tap the Lyrics tab to view lyrics for a song while offline.
It's worth noting that while rivals Spotify and Apple Music also let users view lyrics while listening to songs, both of these platforms have yet to add support for offline lyrics. The feature can come in handy while listening to music when you don't have an internet connection.
These include long-haul flights or passing through an area that has poor network coverage while taking the metro.
Earlier, YouTube announced that it was adding support for "voting" in playlists. This feature is available in collaborative playlists, letting users create playlists together, and it adds new upvote and downvote buttons to each song in a playlist.
Once this feature is enabled on a user's account, they can vote on tracks in a collaborative playlist, and it will move the track to the top or the bottom of the list.
