How To Get Youtube To Play When Iphone Is Locked

(Pocket-lint) - On iPhone, nigh music apps let y'all play music in the background. Later all, they'd be virtually useless if they couldn't. For video apps that's not the example 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-ane platform that offers videos and, with that, music videos which is a surprisingly pop manner to consume music these days. You can find podcast episodes and concerts on there too.

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Now, YouTube does allow yous use its video app to play music in the background but there's a caveat: yous need to be a Premium subscriber in lodge to take reward of that characteristic. Of course, you lot tin use the YouTube Music app, just again, y'all demand to be a subscriber for that too.

Thankfully, there's a workaround that enables y'all to play music from YouTube videos for free, in the background, and it'southward actually not hard to practice. Lookout our quick video below or follow the written guide underneath.

How to play YouTube music in the background on iPhone

The trick is to use your phone's default browser, Safari:

Open Safari and go to 'YouTube.com'
Now search for the music video you want to heed to
Tap the 'Aa' icon in the accost/search bar
Choose 'asking desktop site' from the drop down carte
Hit 'play' on your video

At this bespeak when you lot go back to your home screen, or lock your phone, the music will finish becuase the video stops playing. Nonetheless, you can easily go it playing again, without going back to the browser.

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Drop down Control Eye (or pull it up from the lesser if you have an iPhone with TouchID)
Discover the music playback widget
It should take the song track labelled on it from the browser
Hit the play button

Once you've done that and you drop down Control Centre, yous should run across the choice to play the music once more. In one case it's playing, you lot can lock your telephone, and play and pause it from the lockscreen control or just get about your business using other apps on the telephone.

To play it while the phone is locked, only lock your telephone and you should see a music widget control on the lock screen. Tap play on that and music continues in the background.

It's worth noting, if you're in a playlist or queue, it doesn't seem to automatically go on to the next vocal, so you do demand to re-open Safari to choose a new song when 1 ends. Thankfully, YouTube is full of long compilations and live concerts, and you can easily notice 'videos' over an hour long.

Writing past Cam Bunton.

Source: https://www.pocket-lint.com/phones/news/youtube/152006-youtube-music-background-iphone

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