Comments on: Play a YouTube Video in the Background of iPhone & iPad to Listen to the Audio

By: Casper

Casper — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:50:29 +0000

The new ios6.1 made it impossible to do multiple tasks while listening to youtube/safari videos/music.

However you can play it with screen locked doing the same as stater above you just have to do it alittle different!

1. Open the video/music
2. Press play
3. Lock screen (button at top)
4. dubble click home button, (button with a square)
5. Klick play

You cant click play if you minimized the player, so you can listen but you cant do anything els

Helps to prevent mistake pausing/closing the player

By: Jackie

Jackie — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 20:56:00 +0000

I’ve been doing this for the longest time and its been working great. But now when I press the play button when I leave it just doesn’t work anymore, I tried everything. Anyone have any ideas of how to fix it?

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 15:47:30 +0000

You’d think that…. It did!! My ipad 4 and my iPhone 4 would play YouTube in the background with safari and google chrome on iOS 6 but when they both updated to 6.1 they both wont do it eny more damn apple being asses again…

By: Miley

Miley — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:13:33 +0000

I have a iPhone 4S and this currently does not work Is there any known way to fix this?

By: Liz

Liz — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 05:50:51 +0000

This tip doesn’t work for new iOS 6.1

By: Zooms

Zooms — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 02:30:22 +0000

This doesn’t work for YouTube! Can u make a tutorial for it?

By: Erin

Erin — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 21:03:06 +0000

unfortunately this great feature does not work on the iOS6 software

By: Todd

Todd — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 03:03:04 +0000

Doesn’t work on ipad mini.

By: Steen

Steen — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:15:30 +0000

Hi, this does not work for me. I select the video, close the app then double tap button to press play again and it starts playing music that’s on my phone. Help me?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 02:36:28 +0000

With ios 6 on iphone I had to delete the youtube app that I had installed, then it loads the video in safari.

By: Brent

Brent — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:33:44 +0000

Yeah sorry Elisabet, but so far there isn’t a fix for this problem, but I did just find out a solution… Kind of. Instead of opening the new YouTube app, go into safari, get YouTube up, and it will try make u open the YouTube app, but just ignore that, and find your video/song, play it, then follow the instructions from this website, so minimize the safari app, double tap, then go to the left, and instead of it showing the music icon or the YouTube icon, it will show the safari icon. And just press play and that’s it. But dw, apple will realize the problem and fix it ASAP most likely.

By: Elisabet

Elisabet — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 23:37:58 +0000

I have an iphone 4s and just downloaded the new ios 6.0
I used to be able to listen to youtube as per your instructions but now It doesn’t work you when I try it only appears the music button

PLEASE HELP

By: Julio

Julio — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 17:59:59 +0000

It’s also nice to notice that:
This tip also works in the lockscreen, when you bring the audio controls by double-tapping the Home button and then pressing play. It’s extremely useful when you want to listen to a youtube audio (lectures, speaks etc.) with your device locked in your pocket.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 22:02:00 +0000

You double click the home screen, then you swipe the bottom section to the left

By: BethintheWest

BethintheWest — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:11:59 +0000

Nice!