How to Play YouTube Videos in the Background No Premium

if you'd like to listen to content on YouTube in the background maybe you want to lock your device but have that audio still playing in the background you would typically need to pay for YouTube premium as this is locked feature for premium members but we have workaround that can help you achieve this goal and it's actually pretty easy to do the first thing you'll want to do is actually open up Safari and head on over to youtube.com then search for the video that you want to listen to in the background so perhaps this might be don't know an episode of the Macer Show podcast so just go over to the Mac RoR show channel maybe consider subscribing if you haven't already done so new episodes drop every Friday and then you can tap on the episode that you want to listen to and then in the bottom left corner of the Safari toolbar tap on that little lowercase uppercase icon and select request desktop website from the popup menu then you're going to go ahead and tap the play button or tap the video to begin playback while ignoring or dismissing any popups encouraging you to open up the YouTube mobile app this is important because well you can't use the YouTube mobile app in order for this to work it's just going to want you to pay for premium then just go ahead and lock your iPhone and the audio will pause but you can just tap the play button in the lock screen playback controls widget to resume listening after following these steps the audio from YouTube will continue to play on your locked iPhone for as long as that video lasts leaving you free to pocket your phone and listen on headphones alternatively if you want to use the phone with other apps while listening just swipe up from the bottom of the screen to exit out of Safari and then use the media control in your iPhone's Dynamic Island if you have 14 or 15 or in the control center you can go ahead and resume playback when it automatically stops and that's it be sure to like this video If it helped you out and subscribe to the channel if you want to see more content from us in the future this is with Mac rers thanks so much for watching and hope to see you around in the next video