How To Play YouTube Video With Screen Off On Your Android

Playing YouTube videos with the screen off is tricky business. As soon as your screen switches off, YouTube automatically pauses what you are watching, so you can't just listen to videos while getting on with other things. There's no setting to solve this in the default YouTube app, but there are ways to play YouTube videos with the screen off. We've outlined three of the best below.

1 Play YouTube Videos in Background Without Rooting Android

The best part of this method is that you won’t need to root your Android device. Therefore go through the post to know how to play YouTube videos in the background without rooting your Android Device.

2 Youtube Music Key subscription

This is a type of Youtube service that lets to play the Youtube content even when the screen is turned off or the Youtube is played in the background. You will need to pay for the subscription and then activate it from inside the settings of the Youtube and then play the videos after that. The functionality will be activated and therefore the videos can be played even in screen off.

3 While Using the Youtube on Mozilla Firefox

Youtube can be accessed through the web browsers too as we all know, but can we induce the above feature of enabling video playback even on the screen off in Youtube just through using any browser? Yes! this functionality can be enabled by using the Firefox web browser, first download and install the browser on your smartphone and then follow the further Youtube settings inside the browser.
Open the browser and then go to the Youtube website and then head on to the settings page of Youtube from there. From the option there, request the desktop website of Youtube on your phone, once that launches on your device, you can easily play any of the videos from there. The videos won’t pause or stop even if you turn off the screen of your device!
Note: You should check that the Youtube desktop website is launched on your device from where you can play the videos as the function won’t work if you use the mobile Youtube site.

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4. Sony Xperia Small Apps

If you are owning any Sony Xperia device then there is a trick for that device through which the Youtube videos can be played even on the lock screen or the screen off. Just download and install the Media Viewer Small app from the Play store and then open it up on your device.
Now tap on the square button of your device for some time and then touch the arrow placed below the screen. You have to access the Web Videos app from there, and then inside this app, you can easily search for the Youtube videos and play them inside. This app allows to play the videos even under the screen off.

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