Tip: Play YouTube audio even when your iPhone is locked with this simple trick

BY Jason

Published 2 Dec 2013

If you use the YouTube iOS app to listen to songs, you might find it annoying that after you lock your device, YouTube stops playing audio. Here’s a simple trick to let the YouTube app continue playing audio after you’ve turned off your iPhone or iPad’s screen.

When on a video page, tap on the share button (the one next to the “+” button) located at the bottom, and then tap “Message.” Once the message compose screen appears, you can lock your device, and still have the audio continue playing in the background.

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The perfect solution would let you play audio even after closing the app, but this is still pretty good if you’re a regular user of the YouTube iOS app. YouTube prohibits playing just audio via its API, so it’s unlikely we see an audio-only YouTube app on the App Store, but we do hope tweaks like ProTube and YourTube are updated for iOS 7, once a jailbreak is available.

[via Reddit]