TECH TIPS
Want to play YouTube
videos in the
background on your
smartphone? Here’s how
O
ne annoying fact about the YouTube app on
Android and iOS devices is that it doesn't allow
background play. If you are watching a video or
are listening to a music on YouTube and you navigate
to a different app or turn off the screen, the video/audio
automatically gets paused.
What if you want to listen to music on the YouTube app
on your smartphone while surfing the web or doing
something else? The easiest way to do it is by purchasing a YouTube Red subscription, which will give you bonus features like the ability to download YouTube videos
on smartphones, a subscription of Google Play Music
and it'll also get rid of YouTube ads. However, it is not
available in India yet.
If you want to play YouTube videos in the background on
your mobile devices (for free), you can go about it in the
following ways:
For iOS
* Go to the YouTube site through Safari.
* Search and play the music video you want and wait till
the video plays in full screen.
* Next, press the home button; this will bring you to the
home screen and stop the audio.
* Now swipe and bring up the control center and tap the
play button.
Now, your favourite music video will continue to play
in the background while you navigate through different
apps or even lock your device. This is handy, but for this
to work you'll have to delete the YouTube app, otherwise
Safari will automatically redirect you the application.
However, if you do not wish to delete the app, you can
open the YouTube site through Google Chrome browser
and follow the same steps as above.
For Android
* Firstly, download and install Mozilla browser on your
Android device.
* Open the YouTube site in Mozilla.
* Go to settings (the three dots on the top right corner)
and tap on the desktop tab.
* You'll be redirected to the desktop site of YouTube.
* Play any music video you want to here and it will keep
playing in the background while you use other apps or
turn off the screen.
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