We all at some point or another got frustrated with YouTube App, because we can
not minimize it when listening to favorite songs/music during multi-tasking in
smartphone. You wonder how stupid this App is! Be it iPhone or Android, it does
not allow user to run YouTube in the background.
This post will show how to play music/video in YouTube in the background by
keeping in minimized state. Steps have been depicted step by step with
pictures.
Now, without wasting much time let the secret of running YouTube in the
background be revealed so that you enjoy your favorite song on YouTube.
- Search youtube.com in any browser tab, preferably Mozilla Firefox but not limited to it (Chrome will also do).
- Now click
on the three dots on the top-right corner. This will pop-up window.
- The
drop-down pop-up window will be like this.
- Select
“Request Desktop Site”. You can see it will be opened like this.
- Now you can play any recommended video, or you can search any video in the search bar.
- Once it starts playing, you can touch home button and minimize it. You can open any other Apps or even you can keep your display off by pressing power button. YouTube will be running in the background without being stopped.
- For some
browser(Google Chrome), video/music may pause once you minimize the Browser. But no worry, slide
down quick settings bar, you can see the play button. Hit it. You are
done.
Enjoy YouTube in the background. Stop cursing YouTube for being stupid. Be
happy being smart. This trick is applicable for iPhone as well.
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