I was listening to a video tutorial on YouTube the other day using my Airpods. Since I can't see the sdcreen, I wasn't interested in the video, just the audio.
So I locked my iPhone and put it in my pocket so that I could wander around while listening.
Unfortunately, as soon as I locked the phone, YouTube stopped playing. I can understand why this might be a reasonable behavior since most people want to see the video and, if the screen is locked, then the video wouldn't be shown. But I was only interested in the audio.
I poked around to see if there was a setting to enable Youtube to play when the screen was locked or to just play audio but I didn't see anything that fit the bill.
I'm wondering if other folks have run into this issue and if there are any solutions out there so that one can listen to the audio portion of a YouTube video with the screen locked.
Thanks for any suggestions.
--Pete
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It's a premium feature, but there might be a workaround
Hi. YouTube does this on purpose, the ability to have videos continue to play whilst the app is not in the foreground is a feature that they charge for. You need to subscribe to YouTube premium if you want it to do this.
However, I have noticed that if you are watching YouTube in Firefox, and you switch away from the app, it continues to play. I don't know if this is specific to Firefox, and I don't know if this will continue to happen. There seems to be a battle between the browsers and YouTube to stop this happening. But at least on my phone, which is running the 14.5 beta, it seems to work.
Thanks for the feedback
Jeff,
thanks for the feedback.I don't listen to things on YouTube with my iPhone very much. If there are more of these tutorials that I want to listen to on my phone I guess I'll use one of those YouTube to MP3 converters on my PC and copy it to the cloud so that I can listen to just audio.
I wonder if there is such a YouTube to MP3 or audio converter for iOS?
Anyway, thanks.
--Pete