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How to background play without YouTube Premium on iPhone

1 points by no_creativity_ ↗ HN
From the looks of it, the trigger for YouTube to pause the video is based on the Lock Button. In my case, I’ve bound the Double Tap feature in accessibility to Lock Screen, and I can use it to have videos playing in the background on YouTube.

I hope it doesn’t get fixed anytime soon, haha.

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han1
Just watch YouTube inside of Brave, you can enable background playback in the settings and it can block ads and shorts
01jonny01
The latest iOS release made this more difficult to do via Safari.

I use skipvids.com audio (aud button) mode. It works most of the time in Safari on iOS. You can also watch in PiP (Picture-in-picture) mode.