Can I play music on YouTube while browsing iPhone?
Using the YouTube app, iPhone or iPad users can keep listening to music while they get on with something else. To force YouTube audio to keep playing in the background, open up the relevant video and start it playing. Then press the home button so that the app closes, at which point the audio will stop.
Can I play YouTube on iPhone with screen off?
You can listen to YouTube with the screen off, too. Press the sleep/wake button to turn your device off and the audio should continue to play. Again, if it doesn’t play then press the power button again and tap the play button on the lock screen to restart the audio (you can also skip between songs in a playlist too).
How do I get YouTube to play while my phone is locked?
Go to the YouTube website within the browser, tap the settings (three dots) button at the top right of the page and tick desktop site. Once you have completed the steps above, tap on a video to play it, and it will continue to play even after you lock your phone.
How to play YouTube videos in the background on an iPhone?
Now that you have YouTube Premium, here’s how to play videos in the background: 1. Open the YouTube app on your iPhone. 2. Navigate to the video that you want to listen to in the background. 3. Once it starts playing, feel free to lock your iPhone or close the app and open another one.
Can you play music in the background on an iPhone?
– There is a workaround though! (Pocket-lint) – On iPhone, most music apps let you play music in the background. After all, they’d be virtually useless if they couldn’t. For video apps that’s not the case which – again – makes sense, since you can’t watch videos with your iPhone locked and the phone in standby.
Can you watch YouTube videos on your iPhone?
For video apps that’s not the case which – again – makes sense, since you can’t watch videos with your iPhone locked and the phone in standby. With YouTube, the app is a sort-of two-in-one platform that offers videos and, with that, music videos which is a surprisingly popular way to consume music these days.
Why do YouTube videos not play in the background?
YouTube doesn’t want you to play its videos as background audio, because it reserves this feature for its paying subscribers (see below). This means that solutions to this problem tend to vanish as the company finds ways to block them. But there are still workarounds, as we will see.