Hopefully these methods (or at least one of them) have worked for you so you can enjoy YouTube audio content in the background of your device.
Apple doesn’t let us control all of the app functions like Android does, but you may find something preventing you from successfully performing the steps. Lastly, head over to your phone’s settings and check for any app restrictions or Screen Time limitations. Try charging your phone or turning off Low Power Mode if it’s on.
An iPhone low on power won’t allow apps to run at full capacity when the screen is locked. If Safari and Chrome aren’t working for you, check your phone’s battery percentage.
But, if you immediately lock your screen the music will not play. We were able to replicate that this works in Safari and Chrome in December of 2020. If none of our methods listed above are working for you, there’s a few things to try.įirst, when playing from a web browser, make sure you let the music play for a bit before locking your screen. Also, make sure to do some research on the various apps and choose the one with the best online reputation among users. These apps will sometimes get taken down and might even stop working, but another one normally pops up. One popular app is Youtube Music App available in Apple’s App Store.
These apps can help to circumvent YouTube trying to block background content from being played.Ī few of these can be found in the App Store, so just choose the one you want to use and follow the steps within the app.
If nothing is working, you can always try to download a third-party app to help you play YouTube in the background on your iPhone. However, it did work after requesting the desktop site as we mentioned above. We weren’t able to activate it successfully on an iPhone 11 running iOS 14.2. Once again, some people have claimed this no longer works, while others claim that it does still work. Next, once the video plays you can exit the browser and still play the audio content by using the control center. Watch our quick video below or follow the written guide underneath.This will open up the video in a private session. Thankfully, there's a workaround that enables you to play music from YouTube videos for free, in the background, and it's really not difficult to do. Of course, you can use the YouTube Music app, but again, you need to be a subscriber for that too.
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 Premium subscriber in order to take advantage of that feature.