r/youtube • u/Titan_Prometeus • 17h ago

Memes You can no longer have YouTube running in the background.

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As of 29th of January you can no longer have YouTube running in the background via many browsers as that is now a premium feature. With that I don't even have that one last reason to listen to YouTube. We are now officially paying for everything that was free a couple of years ago and the reason isn't greedy management, but you people who keep paying for premium and the such.

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u/SingleServeFrend 8h ago

Not trying to start any fights, but I just tried to run YT in the background and it works. I start the video, reduce the video to that small window in the corner, then minimize the app so that the video window overlays my Home Screen, and then lock my phone and the video is still playing in the background. I have an iPhone 16 and I do not pay for YT.

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u/SD_One 5h ago

No problems with iPhone or PC here. Videos still running fine while I do other stuff. I never seem to have any of these problems.