YouTube is a mine of songs and clips, which you sometimes want to listen to by turning off your smartphone screen. We tell you how to keep the music playing backwards?
Officially, YouTube does not allow users to enjoy its content, screen off, on their smartphone. This option, however harmless, is reserved only for Premium subscribers of YouTube and YouTube Music.
Charged with a dozen euros per month, it allows you to listen to YouTube with the screen off, but above all to get rid of advertisements, and to enjoy offline content.
For users with a free account, however, there is a solution to listen to the content of their favorite YouTube videos without the image and by turning off the screen of their smartphone. Here’s how.
1. Go to the YouTube website
Open your favorite web browser and go to the YouTube site.
The application does not allow background reading for free users, you will indeed have to go directly through the site to use it.
2. Activate the desktop version
When you arrive on the YouTube web page, you will have to perform another manipulation to hope to play the content with the screen off. Much like the app, the mobile web version of YouTube doesn’t run in the background.
Instead, you’ll need to load the desktop version of YouTube on your smartphone, understand the same version you’re using on your desktop computer.
On ios
In Safari, tap the aA icon displayed to the left of the address bar. Then choose the Desktop version. The page should then reload in a format similar to the one you have on a PC. Start playing your video.
On android
In Chrome, press the main menu represented by three small dots, and check the Desktop version box. Again, the page should reload and display the PC version of YouTube in Chrome. Then start playing your video.
3. Start playing in the background
On ios
From iPhone, lock the screen of your device and activate it. If you just started playing from the web browser, it should have stopped.
However, the media control pane is normally accessible from the iOS locked screen or Control Center to allow you to restart video playback in the background.
On android
Lock your screen and wake it up immediately. You should then be able to access the media player, also accessible from the Android quick access pane to restart playback of your program.
Be careful, however, for this trick to work, you will need to make sure that Chrome notifications are enabled in Android Settings.
You can then continue listening to the video while using another app or even, locking the screen of your smartphone.