YouTube’s background play feature—the ability to play only the audio of a video while in another app or while your screen is off—has long been available only to paying Premium users.

Microsoft Edge has an experimental feature that supports background video playback on Android. Anyone can try the feature, but you have to download Microsoft Edge Canary for Android and jump through a ...

YouTube viewers are reporting that background play no longer works on Samsung Internet, Vivaldi, and other browsers. The breaking of background play on multiple ...

Lots of people use YouTube as their main music streaming app. But unlike other music apps, if you close the app or lock your iPhone while listening, all the music will shut off. That is, unless you've ...

YouTube TV is finally rolling out a feature that has been available in YouTube as a Premium-only feature – background play. It seems that the ability to listen in the background is being added to both ...

John is a writer at Pocket-lint. He is passionate about all things technology, and is always keeping up with the latest smartphone and PC releases. John has previously written at MobileSyrup. When ...

YouTube has updated Premium Lite with two features previously exclusive to the full Premium tier: downloads and background play. The catch is that both perks are ...

If you turn off the screen or start another app while watching a YouTube video on your smartphone, the video you were watching will stop playing. However, if you subscribe to the paid plan YouTube ...

YouTube has announced new features for its Premium Lite subscription in India. The company said that background play and download capabilities are being added to the ...