In late April 2023, the core video playback feature of YouTube Vanced was rendered nonfunctional. Soon after the discontinuation of YouTube Vanced, ReVanced emerged as one of the unofficial successors to the project by offering similar functionality. Although the app will continue to function for users who have already installed it, the app will likely stop working at some point in the future without any further updates.

On March 13, 2022, the developers of YouTube Vanced announced that the application would be shut down after they received a cease and desist letter from Google, which forced the developers to stop developing and distributing the app. The name Vanced originates from the word advanced but with ad removed, in reference to the software's ad blocking features. A YouTube Music version of Vanced was also developed.

Other features of the app include SponsorBlock, background play, free picture-in-picture (PiP), an AMOLED black theme, swipe control for brightness and volume, and the ability to restore dislike counts on YouTube videos. YouTube Vanced (or simply Vanced) is a discontinued, modified third-party YouTube application for Android with a built-in ad blocker.

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