since that huge update, now my laptop takes forever to load my desktop. I sign in and the screen is black for ages. before my desktop would show instantly and take a few mins to become usable, def much shorter than it is now
That’s odd, updating the YT app usually fixes issues like that. If you’re still having trouble – we'd recommend sending a feedback report directly from YouTube, here's how: https://yt.be/help/feedback . Make sure to send from the account experiencing the issue!