diff --git a/api/package.json b/api/package.json
index 1e8f506a..4f2b21dc 100644
--- a/api/package.json
+++ b/api/package.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
     "name": "@imput/cobalt-api",
     "description": "save what you love",
-    "version": "10.7.9",
+    "version": "10.7.10",
     "author": "imput",
     "exports": "./src/cobalt.js",
     "type": "module",
diff --git a/api/src/config.js b/api/src/config.js
index 191e8441..bff1eda3 100644
--- a/api/src/config.js
+++ b/api/src/config.js
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import { Constants } from "youtubei.js";
 import { getVersion } from "@imput/version-info";
 import { services } from "./processing/service-config.js";
 import { supportsReusePort } from "./misc/cluster.js";
@@ -52,6 +53,7 @@ const env = {
     keyReloadInterval: 900,
 
     enabledServices,
+    customInnertubeClient: process.env.CUSTOM_INNERTUBE_CLIENT,
 }
 
 const genericUserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36";
@@ -74,6 +76,12 @@ if (env.instanceCount > 1 && !env.redisURL) {
     throw new Error('SO_REUSEPORT is not supported');
 }
 
+if (env.customInnertubeClient && !Constants.SUPPORTED_CLIENTS.includes(env.customInnertubeClient)) {
+    console.error("CUSTOM_INNERTUBE_CLIENT is invalid. Provided client is not supported.");
+    console.error(`Supported clients are: ${Constants.SUPPORTED_CLIENTS.join(', ')}\n`);
+    throw new Error("Invalid CUSTOM_INNERTUBE_CLIENT");
+}
+
 export {
     env,
     genericUserAgent,
diff --git a/api/src/processing/services/youtube.js b/api/src/processing/services/youtube.js
index b12d2cee..fc712e24 100644
--- a/api/src/processing/services/youtube.js
+++ b/api/src/processing/services/youtube.js
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ const hlsCodecList = {
     }
 }
 
+const clientsWithNoCipher = ['IOS', 'ANDROID', 'YTSTUDIO_ANDROID', 'YTMUSIC_ANDROID'];
+
 const videoQualities = [144, 240, 360, 480, 720, 1080, 1440, 2160, 4320];
 
 const transformSessionData = (cookie) => {
@@ -149,7 +151,7 @@ export default async function (o) {
         useHLS = false;
     }
 
-    let innertubeClient = o.innertubeClient || "ANDROID";
+    let innertubeClient = o.innertubeClient || env.customInnertubeClient || "ANDROID";
 
     if (cookie) {
         useHLS = false;
@@ -478,7 +480,7 @@ export default async function (o) {
             urls = audio.uri;
         }
 
-        if (innertubeClient === "WEB" && innertube) {
+        if (!clientsWithNoCipher.includes(innertubeClient) && innertube) {
             urls = audio.decipher(innertube.session.player);
         }
 
@@ -513,7 +515,7 @@ export default async function (o) {
             filenameAttributes.resolution = `${video.width}x${video.height}`;
             filenameAttributes.extension = codecList[codec].container;
 
-            if (innertubeClient === "WEB" && innertube) {
+            if (!clientsWithNoCipher.includes(innertubeClient) && innertube) {
                 video = video.decipher(innertube.session.player);
                 audio = audio.decipher(innertube.session.player);
             } else {
diff --git a/docs/run-an-instance.md b/docs/run-an-instance.md
index ea31cfc5..fe8316f5 100644
--- a/docs/run-an-instance.md
+++ b/docs/run-an-instance.md
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ sudo service nscd start
 | `API_REDIS_URL`       | ➖        | `redis://localhost:6379` | when set, cobalt uses redis instead of internal memory for the tunnel cache. |
 | `API_INSTANCE_COUNT`  | ➖        | `2`                     | supported only on Linux and node.js `>=23.1.0`. when configured, cobalt will spawn multiple sub-instances amongst which requests will be balanced. |
 | `DISABLED_SERVICES`   | ➖        | `bilibili,youtube`       | comma-separated list which disables certain services from being used. |
+| `CUSTOM_INNERTUBE_CLIENT` | ➖    | `IOS`                    | innertube client that will be used instead of the default one. |
 
 \* the higher the nice value, the lower the priority. [read more here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nice_(Unix)).