Cannot connect to YouTube on iPad 2

After upgrading to iOS 5, my iPad 2 seemed fine, but the next day I suddenly got "cannot connect to YouTube" when using the YouTube app.
Other iOS devices on the same wifi LAN connected fine. The iPad had been fine for a day after upgrading.
I looked at all the (many) threads with the same problem, I followed all the suggested fixes, nothing worked.
Enabling restrictions, disabling the YouTube app so that the icon vanished allowed Safari on the iPad to connect to the YouTube sites, but most of these require Flash and we all know the story there...
I fixed the problem by backing up the iPad 2, doing a complete restore to factory settings and then a restore from that backup, all from iTunes on the Mac. Problem solved, YouTube app working again.

Are you trying to connect over WiFi? Or cellular? Does this happen on all networks or just certain ones?
And, just for my edification, what is "Twitch"?

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Why does the YouTube app say "Cannot Connect to YouTube" over Wifi or 3G?

Hi, everyone.
When I open the YouTube app with Wifi or 3G, it says "Cannot Connect to YouTube." I've browse a few sites, and the number one response is to reset the router. I tried resetting the router (Latest Apple AirPort Extreme) to factory default and Restoring the iPad 2 from Backup. I would believe the router issue to be plausible if 3G worked. Since YouTube doesn't work over 3G, I don't believe the router is the issue.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thank you.

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Whenever I open the Youtube app I get "Cannot connect to Youtube" no matter what why network I'm on no matter how I'm connected. EVERYTHING else on the phone works perfectly.
Even the youtube website works fine via safari but the videos WILL NOT PLAY.
I have tried all the hit or miss speculative solutions that people claim work for them:
*Change the date past the year 2030 and then back again.
*Hard reset the phone
*Power on power off
*Reset network settings
*Full reset of settings
*Trying different networks
*Connecting to the computer and synching the phone and the apps
None of these work. Some people claim success with one or more of the different methods above but it doesn't work for me and many others. This issue has been going on for a LONG time and it is WIDESPREAD (just search this forum or the internet at large via google and you will see). It spans across multiple devices (iPhone and iPod Touch alike) and multiple software versions across multiple generations of the devices. I find it appalling that Apple is silent on this gaping bug.
Does anyone have a solution? Does anyone know how to get Apple to DO SOMETHING?
Thanks.

Are you senior executives in Apple's cost cutting in the customer service and quality control department or what?
+If it works fine on your friends iPhones when they come over it does not sound like a bug, it sounds like a problem with your iPhone.+
It IS a problem with my iPhone. Anything that causes one of the built in operating applications to fail frequently under normal use whether or not it happens on every device consistently is absolutely by definition a bug.
+Explain why the alleged bug is not on every iPhone then ? This is the bit that you fail to explain in every post you make.+
It may not be on every phone but it definitely is on MANY, what triggers it is unknown. Microsoft releases hundreds if not thousands of bug fixes every year. Why don't all the HUNDREDS of millions of Windows users all experience every single bug? By your logic none of these bugs exists because every single user doesn't experience them. I can't remember the last time I personally experienced one of the bugs that all these mountains of bug fixes I download through windows update automatically correct so I guess none of those bugs actually exist.
+I have read a lot more articles by people who think the world is flat and that means nothing. There are 10 million odd iPhones, 50 people isn't a conclusive fault. explain why 9,999,950 of them appear to work fine?+
There are thousands of people with this problem. With a problem like this a person with even shred of intellect would read a few posts from a few different sources and come to an informed conclusion on the issue rather than dedicate the next six months of their life to reading every single thing ever written about it. Once you see the pattern is exactly the same even in 10 plus posts and it's obvious there are THOUSANDS more you can conclude it's not an isolated incident.
+Thats hardly conclusive - there are youtube video's on how to make an egg custard but that doesn't mean nobody can make one without instruction, or that all egg custards made are defective somehow.+
Inappropriate and just flat out wrong analogy. If there was a "how to make custard when it fails in a specific way consistently" then your analogy would be appropriate. The "how to FIX x" youtube video is not analogous to "how to use your iphone" or "how to do x." In any event comparing egg custard to an iphone is clearly apples to oranges - or more like apples to nuclear reactors.
+Don't bother quoting Google Stats - you can get hits on every search string you put in, and one post gets copied again and again and comes up as multiple hits.+
Really? I had no idea google one of the most successful companies in the world had such a faulty and defective search engine that it gives phony results. Have you told them? Maybe they will hire you to fix it.
You may get SOME hits for any garbage you put in (not really ANY but a lot of garbage) but they won't be very many.
"asldfjla adfkjdsafd" - 0 hits (looks like you're wrong again)
"random string of nonsense searching" - 22,500 hits
"iphone "compass not working"" - 7,700 hits
"ipod "calendar not working"" - 4,570 hits
"iphone "calendar not working"" - 8,490 hits
"iphone "stocks not working"" - 3 hits (really google makes too many phony hits? Are you sure you dont' mean not enough - do you really believe only 3 people ever uttered these words on the ENTIRE internet???)
"iphone "calculator not working"" - 23,900 hits
"iphone "cannot connect to youtube"" - 980,000 hits
"ipod "cannot connect to youtube"" - 859,000 hits
Yep I see it, it's settled now. It definitely must be something I just made up. Looks like nobody else is having that problem. Must not mean a thing that there are more than 100 times more articles on this built in app than a couple others I picked at random. I'm glad you settled this for me how google is broken and only my iphone is misconfigured and the "cannot connect to youtube" error is not widespread.

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Whenever I open the Youtube app I get "Cannot connect to Youtube" no matter what why network I'm on no matter how I'm connected. EVERYTHING else on the phone works perfectly.
Even the youtube website works fine via safari but the videos WILL NOT PLAY.
I have tried all the hit or miss speculative solutions that people claim work for them:
*Change the date past the year 2030 and then back again.
*Hard reset the phone
*Power on power off
*Reset network settings
*Full reset of settings
*Trying different networks
*Connecting to the computer and synching the phone and the apps
None of these work. Some people claim success with one or more of the different methods above but it doesn't work for me and many others. This issue has been going on for a LONG time and it is WIDESPREAD (just search this forum or the internet at large via google and you will see). It spans across multiple devices (iPhone and iPod Touch alike) and multiple software versions across multiple generations of the devices. I find it appalling that Apple is silent on this gaping bug.
Does anyone have a solution? Does anyone know how to get Apple to DO SOMETHING?
Thanks.

get the new update 3.1.3. youtube works great for me. not had a problem with it yet...

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Please help me. My YouTube app will not work. Every time I open it says 'cannot connect to youtube'. I have searched for help and tried resetting my settings and rebooting my ipad2 but nothing has solved the issue.

Yes, I am connected to the Internet through my wifi. Everything is working fine with the e eption of youtube. I have reset all Internet settings and have tried synching to iTunes followed by rebooting. This is all the advice I have found although none of it has been helpful.
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I've been having this problem since Friday, 6/29/07. The YouTube Icon has never worked on my problem phone.
I have 2 iPhones on the same AT&T account.
One works the other does not - any reason when I tap the YouTube icon I get the message "Cannot Connect to YouTube"?
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SOLUTION:
The solution for my issue was to run a RESTORE on the iphone. I first confirmed that my iphone BACKUP was current. I did the aforementioned per the Apple representative. It took about 20 minutes.
ORIGINAL ISSUE:
On one of my iPhones I get the message:
"Cannot Connect to YouTube"
I've been having this problem since Friday, 6/29/07.
The YouTube Icon has never worked on my problem
phone.
I have 2 iPhones on the same AT&T account.
One works the other does not - any reason when I tap
the YouTube icon I get the message "Cannot Connect to
YouTube"?
I have tried this on the EDGE and WiFi networks.
The Stocks, Weather and Safari work
fine.
Gateway Windows
XP
Gateway
Windows XP
Gateway Windows XP

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the conection on my ipod has 3 bars and i am able to connect safari and seach on google but when i try youtube it says "cannot connect to youtube" every time, how can i fix this?

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