Listening to your favorite vocal on YouTube is a relaxing, enjoyable action. The just issue is that you can't go to whatsoever other webpage or app while y'all're on YouTube unless you pay for premium. Well, it turns out paying for premium isn't the only style to listen to YouTube in the background on your iPhone.

Let's go through another easy way to play YouTube videos in the groundwork on iPhone using the PiPiFire app.

Virtually the PiPiFire App

Currently, YouTube Music's costless groundwork play is only available in Canada and playing a YouTube video using moving-picture show-in-pic mode on iOS also remains a paid feature.

PiPiFire is a gratis app you tin can download from the App Store. It serves equally an extension for Safari that allows you to play videos using picture-in-motion-picture show way. Past utilizing this feature, you tin can play YouTube videos in the groundwork or in picture-in-picture mode on your iPhone for free.

Download: PiPiFire (Costless)

How to Play YouTube Videos in the Background With PiPiFire

After you download PiPiFire from the App Store, the next step is to activate the app on your iPhone:

  1. Get to the Settings app and select Safari.
  2. Gyre downwards and select Extensions.
  3. Select PiPiFire.
  4. Plow on PiPiFire and tap on youtube.com.
  5. Select Allow.

To get-go playing YouTube videos in the background, go to the Safari app and caput to YouTube.com. The extension doesn't work for the YouTube app itself, only Safari.

On YouTube, select a video y'all want to picket. Once the video starts playing, tap it one time. You'll see a colored movie-in-pic icon in the elevation left. Tap on that icon. This minimizes the video to a mini player at the corner of your iPhone screen.

Swipe the mini player to the side, leaving a small dock at the screen edge. At present, you tin can open a new Safari tab to surf other webpages and employ other apps while YouTube plays seamlessly in the background on your iPhone. Simply brand certain that you don't close the YouTube tab in Safari.

When you lot want to play another video, simply swipe the dock to bring out the mini thespian. Tap Expand. This will open the YouTube tab in Safari. Here, simply choose another video and repeat the steps above to play the YouTube video in picture-in-picture mode over again.

Savour Your Favorite Songs in the Background

Until YouTube extends the free groundwork play to users outside Canada, international iPhone users can stick to this workaround for as long as it may last. And if YouTube always disables this extension, there are other ways to listen to videos in the background anyway.

How to Play YouTube Videos in the Background (Even With the Screen Off)

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