I’m tired of people upgrading to premium to get videos to play while their phone is locked because you can do it with the free version. Here is how:
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Make sure your phone is in portrait orientation with the YouTube video open and playing
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Swipe up to your home screen so the video plays in the MiniPlayer
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Swipe down from the top of your screen to open Notification Center
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Unpause the video within Notification Center
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You can now lock your phone and the video will continue to play.
Your welcome P.S. this process seems long at first but becomes muscle memory in a day or two.
When I have a video playing in portrait and swipe to Home Screen there is no mini-player. Only with videos in the browser.
I’m reporting this to Google so they patch it
Thank you! WORKS!
Can you make a video tutorial?
It works well with google chrome without any issues. Simply lock your screen and hit play. As long as they fix (ruin) it.