iPad Pro M4 Safari overheating and lagging with YouTube

Safari overheating while watching youtube. Seriously, youtube making my ipad pro m4 laggy. How?

1) youtube still downloading add in background with 3-5 youtube tabs ipad’s ram ends up fast.

2) advertisement still playing in background (even with disabling background video play in safari’s menu) - after alt+tab advideo starting downloading and playing immediately. This is making ipad not just loosing ram, this consuming cpu performance.

3) even I watching only 1 youtube tab - ipad overheating. I thing google want to force me install youtube app.

I think safari’s team should inspect youtube for memory leak attack.

Posted on Nov 5, 2026 9:02 PM

1 reply

John Galt

Level 10 (162,806 points)

Nov 6, 2026 3:57 AM in response to Supzer0

YouTube exists for the sole purpose of delivering targeted advertising. Google doesn't care about its effects on your iPad. They didn't have to pay for it, you did. It's a gift from you to them.

I thing google want to force me install youtube app.

That would make it even easier for Google to exploit you, for their purposes.