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Not being able to play Youtube in the background on your phone is unfortunately one of the main appeals of Premium. There's a lot of good mixes, concerts, etc t
by sreya 10mo ago
Not being able to play Youtube in the background on your phone is unfortunately one of the main appeals of Premium. There's a lot of good mixes, concerts, etc that I play for the audio while doing something else that I can't do without Premium unless I wanted to leave my phone unlocked (and pray I don't pocket click a link).
- R_D_Olivaw 10mo agoI'm fairly certain if you use a browser and the desktop version of the site you can listen with the screen off/locked.
- cjameskeller 10mo agoFirefox Android can play audio even when the phone is locked, and I use it regularly.
- just-another-se 10mo agobrave on android can also do the same, not sure about ios
- TheCapeGreek 10mo agoNote: If you have a mid-range to lower end phone, battery optimization might stop your playback anyway by default. You can exclude Firefox from battery optimization though.
- shminge 10mo agoIf you're on Android, YouTube Revanced does this (+many other premium features)
- qwerpy 10mo agoMy iPhone running Safari and uBlock Origin lite is able to do this. I don't have the youtube app installed. I don't even think the ad blocker is necessary for background audio, but I don't want to see ads. 1. Go to youtube.com in the browser, play the video, switch back to the home screen. Video playback will stop, which is a good default behavior. 2. Swipe down from the top of the screen which brings up "Notification Center" which somewhat strangely contains a playback control for the browser. 3. Press play. Audio resumes. If it's part of a playlist, you don't have to manually advance, it will play automatically. No ads, no youtube premium subscription, no "desktop mode", no sideloading, no additional apps other than the beloved ad blocker.
- arialdomartini 10mo agoTIL Thank you pal, it perfectly works!
- MathMonkeyMan 10mo agoYou can open youtube in the phone's web browser and install an extension that blocks a site's ability to tell when focus has left the page/app. This is how I listen to some music on my phone while working out. Ad blockers help with the constant nagging about "open in the app!"
- alextingle 10mo agoNewPipe
- DirkH 10mo agoNever works
- EliteGadget 10mo agoI run Brave (Android) on my phone and don't have any ads on Youtube. I think it worked on Brave iOS but I sold my iPhone last year. I let Brave run in the background and it seems to work fine.
- a96 10mo agoBrave is a series scam company.
- EliteGadget 10mo agoI don't think that is true and I don't really care. The browser works properly, it has ad-blocking built in and it is trivial to turn off the other nonsense in the browser.