WolfTube — Wolf Studio & UX Update

🐺 WolfTube — Wolf Studio & UX Update

A more personal, smoother, and refined YouTube experience.

This development update focuses on customization, interaction, playback compatibility, and overall user experience.

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🎨 Wolf Studio — Advanced Customization

• Reorganized the design studio into dedicated customization sections.
• Expanded controls for download indicators, progress bars, buttons, and interface elements.
• Added customizable color palettes and gradients.
• Introduced adjustable sizes, thickness, shapes, and corner styles.
• Improved live previews with interactive component controls.
• Added support for saving and restoring personalized designs.
• Improved Arabic right-to-left layout handling.

🫧 Liquid Glass & Animations

• Refined transitions and appearance animations.
• Improved glass-style dialogs throughout WolfTube.
• Updated interaction feedback and interface consistency.
• Added smoother presentation and dismissal behavior.
• Preserved the original glass appearance of supported player and Shorts menus.

📥 Downloads & 4K Playback

• Improved handling of high-resolution download formats.
• Added playback compatibility checks for supported 2160p files.
• Improved video codec selection where alternative formats are available.
• Added clearer handling of media files that cannot be decoded correctly.

▶️ Player & Shorts

• Improved WolfTube tool-button visibility handling in Shorts.
• Refined long-press interaction paths.
• Added optional controls for supported video suggestions and end-screen elements.
• Improved compatibility with changing YouTube interface layouts.

⚙️ Settings & User Experience

• Improved Wolf Studio language synchronization.
• Removed duplicate Studio shortcuts from unrelated settings sections.
• Added confirmation when leaving settings after changes that require restarting YouTube.
• Improved Arabic interface spacing and layout.
• Removed the previous user-facing crash-log interface.

🛠️ Compatibility & Stability

• Preserved native YouTube Feed behavior to avoid aggressive filtering regressions.
• Kept video advertisement controls separate from Feed layout handling.
• Retained compatibility adjustments for newer iOS and YouTube versions.
• Improved selected UI component and navigation-bar handling.

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⚠️ Important Notes

Important

This is a development / beta release.

Features may behave differently depending on the iOS version, YouTube version, and installation method.

Note

Source-level checks do not guarantee successful compilation or correct behavior on every device.

In particular, 2160p playback and Shorts UI compatibility require real-device verification.

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🐺 WolfTube

Your YouTube. Your Media. Your Way.

Independent project. Not affiliated with YouTube or Google.

WolfTube v1.38.2

🐺 WolfTube v1.38.2 — Design Studio+

This release introduces an expanded Design Studio, more customization options, improved UI consistency, and further compatibility refinements for iOS 27.

🎨 Design Studio+

Two interface styles: Classic and Studio.

Live Preview: Preview supported customization options before applying changes.

Download progress customization: Choose between Red, White, and Gold accents.

Progress bar thickness: Thin, Balanced, or Bold.

Feature row density: Choose between Comfortable and Compact layouts.

Floating download indicator: Customize supported styles, positions, and animations.

Apply confirmation: Apply, discard, or continue editing before saving your design.

✨ Refined UI & UX

Improved Design Studio organization and navigation.

Cleaner settings layouts and more consistent spacing.

Better support for Arabic and right-to-left interfaces.

Preserved the original WolfTube Signature branding.

Maintained Liquid Glass styling for YouTube player overlays, Shorts controls, and download sheets.

Scoped the Studio appearance to supported WolfTube feature pages instead of changing native playback interfaces.

🛠️ Improvements & Cleanup

Removed the in-app Crash Logs interface.

Disabled automatic WolfTube crash-session logging.

Retained independent iOS compatibility and stability safeguards.

Continued refinement of Feed and Shorts compatibility on iOS 27.

Improved separation between download customization and YouTube's native playback interface.

📱 Compatibility

WolfTube is designed for supported YouTube versions on iOS. Feature behavior depends on the installed YouTube version, iOS version, and installation environment.

Verification: This update has undergone source-level checks. Compilation and functionality on physical iOS 27 devices have not yet been fully verified.

WolfTube v1.36.21

✨ What's New

🎨 Dark Premium & Signature Design

• Refined WolfTube settings header with a premium graphite appearance.
• New signature-inspired WolfTube typography.
• Elegant metallic accents and smoother visual styling.
• Continued Liquid Glass interface refinements.

🐺 Updated WolfTube Branding

• New white wolf logo across supported WolfTube interfaces.
• Improved icon consistency in the navigation bar, player, and settings.

🔒 Landscape Player Controls

• Reworked landscape lock button positioning.
• The lock button now targets the center of the left-side player area.
• Improved control placement calculations to reduce unnecessary layout processing.

📱 Features Included

• Video and audio downloading with configurable quality.
• Download progress indicator with display and animation options.
• Offline media library and metadata editing.
• Custom playlists with artwork selected from Photos.
• Playlist playback modes and background playback.
• Private Library with configurable authentication intervals.
• Selective Backup & Restore with privacy-focused export options.
• Multi-select media management.
• SponsorBlock and optional advertisement reduction.
• Shorts, channel, and video utilities.
• Arabic and multilingual interface support.
• Classic settings menus without Live Preview.

🛠️ Compatibility Notes

• Requires a compatible YouTube version and iOS installation environment.
• Feature availability can vary by iOS and YouTube version.
• Advertisement filtering on newer iOS versions remains under testing.
• Landscape control placement may require adjustments for some YouTube layouts.

WolfTube 1.31.7

🐺 WolfTube Update

This update brings new playlist features, better video playback, improved downloads, and several fixes to make WolfTube more stable and compatible.

✨ Added

• You can now choose a custom picture for your playlists from the Photos app.
• You can change the playlist picture whenever you want.
• You can remove the custom picture and return to the default WolfTube playlist icon.
• Playlist pictures are now included when using Backup & Restore.
• Added a mode to play playlist videos in order.
• Added a mode to repeat the current video.
• Added a Shuffle mode to play videos randomly.
• Playback mode changes now work immediately while the playlist is playing.
• Improved downloads using direct links.
• Added extra protection to keep the normal YouTube bottom tabs visible.
• Improved compatibility with different jailbreak environments.
• Added more checks to keep WolfTube stable while YouTube is running.

🔧 Fixed

• Fixed playlist playback buttons that were not working correctly.
• Fixed videos not playing correctly in order.
• Fixed the Repeat Current Track option.
• Fixed the Shuffle option.
• Fixed playlist controls when using Arabic or RTL languages.
• Fixed the YouTube bottom tabs sometimes disappearing and showing only the WolfTube button.
• Improved WolfTube downloads without affecting normal YouTube video playback.
• Improved downloading compatibility with YouTube videos.
• Improved support for normal long YouTube videos.
• Reduced problems that could cause videos to fail during playback.
• Improved compatibility with RootHide and other jailbreak setups.
• Improved stability when other tweaks are loaded with YouTube.
• Fixed several build and compatibility problems.
• Improved compatibility with different iOS development environments.

WolfTube 1.28.13

🐺 WolfTube v1.28.13

✨ What's New

• 🎨 Redesigned WolfTube Settings

  • Cleaner and better organized settings interface.
  • Improved visual consistency with the native YouTube design.
  • Dark Mode background now better matches YouTube's own Dark Mode.

• ✅ Improved Multi-Select

  • Clearer visual indication for selected media.
  • Select multiple videos and audio files at once.
  • Share multiple selected files in a single action.
  • Delete multiple selected files at once.

• 🔔 Improved Action Notifications

  • Replaced small temporary white messages with a cleaner WolfTube-style notification interface.
  • Better visual feedback for supported library actions.

• 🎶 Improved Playlist Playback Controls

  • Playlist playback now uses Previous Track / Next Track controls on the Lock Screen.
  • The ±15-second controls remain available for standalone media playback.

• 📚 Playlist Interface Improvements

  • Refined playlist layout and organization.
  • Improved integration with YouTube's interface.

• ⚙️ Settings Cleanup

  • Removed Export Settings.
  • Removed related unused settings and options.
  • Simplified the settings structure.

• 🐺 Updated WolfTube Icon

  • WolfTube now uses the new project icon throughout the interface.

• 🛠️ Additional Fixes & Improvements

  • Improved spacing between icons and text across supported languages.
  • Improved library selection behavior.
  • General interface refinements and stability improvements.

WolfTube 1.24.4

🛠️ New Updates & Improvements

📢 Advertisement Fixes

• Fixed ads appearing in Shorts videos.
• Improved the ad-blocking system for regular videos.
• Reduced intrusive ads while browsing and switching between videos.
• Enhanced automatic skipping of supported skippable ads.

🎬 Shorts Improvements

• Added a new button to hide UI elements while watching Shorts.
• Enjoy a cleaner and more immersive viewing experience.
• Improved WolfTube tools compatibility with the Shorts player.
• Fixed issues related to the visibility of on-screen buttons.

📥 Download Enhancements

• Added support for downloading videos in 2160p (4K) quality.
• Improved the display of available quality options before downloading.
• Enhanced download stability for high-resolution videos.
• Fixed several issues that could cause downloads to fail or stop unexpectedly.
• Improved processing speed for downloaded video and audio files.

🧹 Automatic Cache Cleanup

• Added automatic cache cleanup.
• Removes unnecessary temporary files to free up storage space.
• Improved overall app performance during long-term use.
• Reduced accumulated cache without affecting downloaded media.
• Enhanced management of temporary files created during downloads and playback.

📱 Version Support

• Added full support for all features on YouTube v26.5.2.
• Improved compatibility and overall stability for this version.
• Fixed issues where certain features or options were not working properly.
• Enhanced compatibility of buttons, settings, and the download system.

📂 Playlist Improvements

• Multiple fixes and improvements to the Playlist system.
• Improved playlist creation, editing, and renaming.
• Enhanced adding videos and audio files to playlists.
• Fixed an issue where some playlist changes were not being saved.
• Improved playlist item sorting and organization.
• Enhanced synchronization of playback progress and playlist metadata.
• Fixed issues related to deleting and restoring playlists.
• Improved playlist sharing stability for WolfTube users.

⚙️ General Improvements

• Improved overall app performance and stability.
• Fixed various internal bugs and crashes.
• Enhanced UI responsiveness.
• Improved settings organization and accessibility.
• Additional fixes, optimizations, and improvements that you'll discover while using the app.

WolfTube v1.21.6

✨ What's New

• Create your own Playlists with ease to organize your favorite videos and audio files, making WolfTube a great alternative to music apps like Spotify.
• Create a full backup of the tool, including all downloaded videos, audio files, and playlists, so you can restore everything later as if you had never uninstalled the app.
• Rename any playlist at any time to keep your library organized the way you want.
• Undo deletions within 10 seconds to prevent accidentally losing playlists or other content.
• Pin playlists so your most-used collections always stay at the top for quick access.
• Full support for iOS 27.5.2, with excellent compatibility and stable performance.
• Added global library search, allowing you to instantly find any video, audio file, or playlist from one place.
• Added the ability to share playlists with anyone using the WolfTube tweak.

The tool now supports logging in on the cloned version 🫶🏻

WolfTube v1.20.3

🛠️ Fixes and Improvements

This update includes several playback, interface, and stability improvements across WolfTube.

🎨 User Interface

• Fixed the position of the WolfTube button on iPad, especially when using the Arabic interface.
• The WolfTube button now appears and disappears together with the YouTube player controls, preventing it from remaining visible over the video.
• Improved text layout when switching languages and prevented text from extending outside the screen.

🎬 Video and Audio Playback

• Hidden video activity from the Dynamic Island while watching inside the app, while keeping playback information available on the Lock Screen when leaving the app.
• Fixed missing video title, channel name, thumbnail, and duration when playing downloaded media.
• Fixed downloaded video and audio playback stopping when the device is locked.
• Fixed the Lock Screen progress bar, allowing users to seek to the desired position.
• Fixed the progress bar for regular videos streamed directly from YouTube.
• Prevented streamed videos from restarting from the beginning when seeking through the Lock Screen controls.
• Prevented control conflicts between streamed videos and downloaded media.

📥 Downloads and Stability

• Improved the stability of the Downloads page.
• Added automatic cleanup for outdated temporary files.
• Fixed several build errors that previously prevented the application from compiling successfully.

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✨ New Features

▶️ Playback Resume

• Downloaded videos and audio files now automatically resume from the last saved playback position.
• Playback progress is saved when:
  • Pausing the media
  • Locking the device
  • Leaving the application
  • Seeking to another position
• Media is reset to the beginning only after it has been played completely.

🔒 Lock Screen Controls

• Added full Lock Screen controls for downloaded media.
• Added 15-second forward and rewind controls.
• Added channel name and video thumbnail display on the Lock Screen.

🧪 Development and Diagnostics

• Added a project validation system to detect errors before creating a build.
• Added dedicated diagnostic tools instead of relying on speculative fixes.

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WolfTube v1.19.3

🐺 WolfTube v1.19.3

Enhanced YouTube Experience on iOS Devices

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✨ Key Features:

• Download videos in multiple quality options.
• Download audio only for offline listening.
• Download the video's thumbnail.
• Built-in downloads library inside YouTube to view and manage all downloaded files.
• View video title, quality, file size, download date, and progress.
• Easily play, share, save, or delete downloaded files.
• Picture-in-Picture (PiP) support for watching videos outside the app.
• Continue audio playback in the background after leaving YouTube.
• Stable Playback feature for improved video compatibility and playback.
• WolfTube button available on regular videos.
• WolfTube button available on Shorts videos.
• Option to hide the Shorts interface for a cleaner viewing experience.
• WolfTube button on channel and profile pages.
• Download profile pictures in the highest available quality.
• Copy the channel name, channel ID, URL, and description.
• Copy the video title and description.
• Reduce ads and automatically skip skippable ads.
• Independent settings to control the visibility of WolfTube buttons.
• Added support for multiple languages, including Arabic.
• Added adjustable video playback speed (0.5x–10x).
• Added the ability to copy comments.
• Added the ability to keep videos playing in the background.

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