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There's a lot of music -- as well as storytelling as well as picture -- on YouTube, as well as so it stands to reasoning that you'd want to be sturdy to spectacle it in the groundwork on your mobile device while reading, texting, or doing over-and-above things. Unfortunately, unless you're a subscriber to YouTube Premium ($11.99 a month) or YouTube Music ($9.99 a month), your deftness to listen to a YouTube video in the groundwork is penned -- doable, however limited.

Android users hypothesize it slightly largest in this respect. Contempo versions of the Android YouTube app fecundate you to use Picture-in-Picture (PiP) to visitation (or listen to) barely any YouTube video while you're recital your tweets or checking out the latest picture -- that is, any video except one that's labeled as being music.

We'll squinch at a workaround for music videos in Android -- as well as for iPhone users as well (who, as of this writing, don't hypothesize derive to the PiP feature). However first, here's how you relegate PiP for YouTube in Android.

• Open your Settings menu from your notifications pull-down or from your main menu
• Select "Apps & Notifications"
• Tap "Advanced" at the foot of the screen
• Select "Special app access" > "Picture-in-picture"
• You are now at the list of apps that tangency PiP, withal with which ones are enabled. Manufacture termless that PiP for YouTube is allowed; if not, tap on YouTube as well as toggle it on.

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Now, when you go into the YouTube app as well as alpha playing a video, you can unaffectedly scripter the Home key at the foot of your screen, as well as the video will shrink down, criteria you to go to arithmetic app while it continues to play. If you tap the halfway of the video, a small box will appear; tap again, as well as the video will go to full size. You will conjointly be sturdy to pause it if you want. A small "x" in the upper-right corner will stop the video as well as blackball the box.

There is unaffectedly a actual large "but" here, however. As mentioned previously, PiP will not assignment if you try to spectacle anything classified as a music video. For that, you permeate to be a subscriber to YouTube Music or YouTube Premium.

There are a couplet of workarounds, however. You can spectacle a distinct track in the groundwork on both an Android roast as well as an iPhone -- however it's a bit fiddly. As well as I was unable to spectacle increasingly than a distinct song in a playlist in either OS. When I approved it on a roast running Android 10, the same song kept repeating, while on an iPhone running iOS 13, the music unaffectedly stopped.

However, if you want to homogeneity it a try, here's how to spectacle music in the groundwork of your mobile device.

On an Android phone

This method, which I headmost saw written up in Digital Trends works in Chrome as well as may assignment in over-and-above mobile browsers as well.

• While you're in Chrome, go to the YouTube website. (This should be washed-up utilizing a mobile browser, so manufacture termless you're in the website as well as not the YouTube app.)
• Find the video you want to play
• Tap on the three dots in the upper-right corner of the screen, as well as then weeded "Desktop site" from the drop-down menu
• You'll now be utilizing the desktop adaptation of YouTube. Alpha the video again.
• Tap the Home key at the foot of your screen. As soon as you see your home screen, the music may stop. However wait...
• Pull down your notifications from the top of the screen. You should see the notification for the customary song; nonparticipating hit spectacle to restart it.

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On an iPhone

Playing a free-willed YouTube video -- any video -- on an iPhone is upscale increasingly tricky, expressly because some methods that previously formed were hammered by iOS 13. I permanently found a method that literally works (most of the time, anyway) in a video produced by Daniel Barely Tech.

• Find your video in Safari. (You'll picked okey-dokey be utilizing the mobile adaptation of YouTube.)
• Tap on the "AA" symbol in the top-left corner of the screen
• In the drop-down menu, tap on "Request Desktop Website"
• In the desktop adaptation of YouTube, alpha the video as well as then ambit up to closest the Safari app
• The video will picked okey-dokey stop playing. Cull down the Dominance Halfway from the top seasonable of the screen. You'll see the video loaded there; scripter the spectacle sawed-off as well as the video should alpha playing again.

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I had no unreason playing a distinct video in the groundwork utilizing this method. If it doesn't assignment for you at first, then, according to Daniel, if you go fetch into Safari as well as restart the video, it should play. However while I was sturdy to spectacle a distinct video in background, as in the Android workaround, I was unable to spectacle increasingly than a distinct track.

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