How to keep YouTube music playing in the background on iPhone

(Pocket-lint) - On iPhone, astir euphony apps fto you play euphony successful the background. After all, they'd beryllium virtually useless if they couldn't. For video apps that's not the lawsuit which - again - makes sense, since you can't ticker videos with your iPhone locked and the telephone successful standby. 

With YouTube, the app is simply a sort-of two-in-one level that offers videos and, with that, euphony videos which is simply a amazingly fashionable mode to devour euphony these days. You tin find podcast episodes and concerts connected determination too. 

• YouTube's euphony streaming work explained

Now, YouTube does fto you usage its video app to play euphony successful the inheritance but there's a caveat: you request to beryllium a Premium subscriber successful bid to instrumentality vantage of that feature. Of course, you tin usage the YouTube Music app, but again, you request to beryllium a subscriber for that too. 

Thankfully, there's a workaround that enables you to play euphony from YouTube videos for free, successful the background, and it's truly not hard to do. Watch our speedy video beneath oregon travel the written usher underneath. 

How to play YouTube euphony successful the inheritance connected iPhone

The instrumentality is to usage your phone's default browser, Safari: 

• Open Safari and spell to 'YouTube.com'
• Now hunt for the euphony video you privation to perceive to
• Tap the 'Aa' icon successful the address/search bar
• Choose 'request desktop site' from the driblet down menu
• Hit 'play' connected your video

At this constituent erstwhile you spell backmost to your location screen, oregon fastener your phone, the euphony volition halt becuase the video stops playing. However, you tin easy get it playing again, without going backmost to the browser. 

• Drop down Control Center (or propulsion it up from the bottommost if you person an iPhone with TouchID)
• Find the euphony playback widget
• It should person the opus way labelled connected it from the browser
• Hit the play button

Once you've done that and you driblet down Control Centre, you should spot the enactment to play the euphony again. Once it's playing, you tin fastener your phone, and play and intermission it from the lockscreen power oregon conscionable spell astir your concern utilizing different apps connected the phone. 

To play it portion the telephone is locked, conscionable fastener your telephone and you should spot a euphony widget power connected the fastener screen. Tap play connected that and euphony continues successful the background. 

It's worthy noting, if you're successful a playlist oregon queue, it doesn't look to automatically proceed to the adjacent song, truthful you bash request to re-open Safari to take a caller opus erstwhile 1 ends. Thankfully, YouTube is afloat of agelong compilations and unrecorded concerts, and you tin easy find 'videos' implicit an hr long. 

Writing by Cam Bunton. Originally published connected 29 April 2020.