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hey Donald Bell here for cnet.com do you love YouTube I love YouTube and I could watch the CNET channel on YouTube all day long but when I get home what I really want to do is take my mobile YouTube experience and put it on my TV so how do you do that well YouTube has a feature called send to TV which does exactly that if you've never seen it before Google just added it to their iOS app but it's been available on Android for some time now so I'm mentioning that to save you the trouble of leaving me 50 comments pointing out the fact that's been on Android I understand Android had it first but now the rest of us can play with it how do you make it all work well here I've got my iPhone I've got my TV and my xbox but it could just as well be my Android phone a tablet and a ps3 or even just an internet-connected Smart TV that includes an up-to-date YouTube app whichever way you're getting YouTube on your TV get it going make sure you've installed any updates and then dive into the YouTube settings so here we are accounts and settings now you should see an option here called pair devices I'm gonna go into that and now the app here is generating a nine digit number that I'm going to take and I'm going to plug it into my phone so the next step here is to open up the app on your phone go into settings again and you're gonna find an option here called pair YouTube TV now I'm gonna enter that nine digit number that the Xbox generated I'm gonna put it into my phone alright I'm also gonna give it a name just in case I'm ever lucky enough to own more than one TV in my house I can distinguish between which TVs I want to send the video to alright I'm gonna hit add and there we go connection complete so now when I select a video on my phone here in the YouTube app I'll see a little TV button at the top when I press it I select the TV's name from the list and it'll get started right there yes Bridget Carey now I can still use the phone here to pause or play video and also skip around I can scrub around on the video to find the exact place I want to go to and if I want to get that video back from the TV and on to my phone I just hit that little TV icon again and select iPhone from the list it's right back here and like I said the same trick works with Android or really any mobile device that can access youtube.com slash pair it's the useful trick and unlike Apple's AirPlay video streaming you don't have to have everything on the same home network to pull this off but you do have to make sure that the YouTube app is open on both devices so there you go that's how to blast your YouTube mobile content onto the big screen for more tips like this head over to how to cnet.com i'm donald bell see you next time