>YouTube Red will also offer Background Play, so you can close the app while continuing to listen to the audio of whatever you were watching as you use your phone.
What a joke. This should be a standard feature.
iOS users: You can play audio in the background by playing a video in Safari, swiping up to open control center, pressing play, and then double-tapping the home button to go to another app. The only restriction is that you can't use Safari while the video is playing.
I believe it's that way because of the rights issues. They can show ads while songs are playing to pay the copyright holder of the song but if your display is off then there is no ads and thus no revenue to share.
Indeed. Android should be able to play audio from videos while the screen is off by now. But Google doesn't even allow the Read Aloud feature in Play Books to work while the screen is off. I don't get that one at all.
Agreed, it's really the only feature I care about. I used a third party app exactly for this but it broke about half a year ago. I wonder if it broke intentionally because of Google.
What a joke. This should be a standard feature.
iOS users: You can play audio in the background by playing a video in Safari, swiping up to open control center, pressing play, and then double-tapping the home button to go to another app. The only restriction is that you can't use Safari while the video is playing.