How To Get Youtube To Play In The Background Iphone

(Pocket-lint) - On iPhone, most music apps rent out you play music in the background. After all, they'd be near useless if they couldn't. For video apps that's not the case which - again - makes sense, since you can't lookout videos with your iPhone locked and the sound in standby.

With YouTube, the app is a sort-of two-in-one chopine that offers videos and, with that, euphony videos which is a surprisingly popular way to have music these days. You can find podcast episodes and concerts on there to a fault.

YouTube's music streaming service explained

Now, YouTube does let you use its video app to play music in the background but there's a caveat: you need to be a Superior subscriber in order to consume advantage of that characteristic. Of course, you can use the YouTube Music app, but again, you need to cost a subscriber for that too.

Thankfully, thither's a workaround that enables you to play music from YouTube videos for free, in the background, and it's actually not knotty to do. Scout our quick video to a lower place or follow the longhand guide underneath.

How to play YouTube music in the background on iPhone

The trick is to expend your telephone's default web browser, Safari:

Open Campaign and go to 'YouTube.com'
Now seek for the music video you neediness to listen to
Tap the 'Aa' ikon in the turn to/look bar
Take 'request background site' from the drop down menu
Hit 'play' on your video

At this point when you go rearward to your home screen, or mesh your phone, the music will stop becuase the video Newmarket playing. However, you can easily twig playing again, without going back to the browser.

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Sink Ascendency Center (or puff it up from the bottom if you have an iPhone with TouchID)
Find the music playback widget
IT should give the song data track labelled happening it from the browser
Hit the play button

Once you've done that and you drop down Control Centre, you should see the option to play the music again. Once it's playacting, you seat lock your phone, and play and pause information technology from the lockscreen control or just go about your business using other apps on the phone.

To play it patc the phone is locked, just operate your phone and you should experience a music gismo control happening the lock sieve. Tap play on it and medicine continues in the play down.

It's worth noting, if you're in a playlist or queue, it doesn't look to automatically continue to the next Song dynast, so you do need to re-open Safari to choose a new song when one ends. Thankfully, YouTube is full of long compilations and live concerts, and you send away easily breakthrough 'videos' over an hour long.

Writing by Cam Bunton. To begin with published happening

29 April 2022.