YouTube brings "Ask YouTube" conversational search to mobile devices

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YouTube is extending the “Ask YouTube” experiment to mobile devices.

You’ll need to go into the app and tap on “Ask” in the search bar to use the feature.

It will only be available to signed-in users who are 13 and above.

Searching for content in the YouTube mobile app is about to get more conversational. YouTube is expanding an experiment it launched back in April to mobile devices.

Google has announced that it is rolling out the “Ask YouTube” feature to the YouTube mobile app. If you’re unfamiliar with the tool, it made its debut as an experiment on desktop on April 27, 2026. This experiment adds an “Ask YouTube” button to the search bar, which you can click on to bring up a conversational search experience to dive deeper into topics. It works similarly to asking Google’s AI questions in the Gemini app.