I finally dropped YouTube premium after 1yr+. t’s dumb, background play and listening to the video while the screen is locked/turned off should be free.
Lmao oneplus phones straight up allow you to do this without premium
Oh, you can totally do background listening and playing videos while the phone is locked in the official app without paying for it. Ya just gotta… exploit the OS’ quirks to get it to stick.
The third feature is actually free sometimes. Sometimes when I go to switch apps from YouTube, the app will bug out and turn into a mini player even though I don’t have premium.
you know what gets you YT premium’s benefits as well?
Firefox + Ublock Origin + Noskript
you can do it on a chromium browser, but with Google banning Ublock Origin, and Manifest v3 (or 2? forget which we are on) coming… yah >_>
You guys are really something. You think that you decide what should and shouldn’t be free on someone else’s platform.
That being said, Revanced.
This is so lazy! I mean they could try to innovate to propose a reel feature. Soon pausing a video will one of them
This feature was once in Oppo phones and then one update later removed it. Oh well, doesn’t stop me from not paying after experiencing the abysmal that is YouTube premium.
Honestly at some point i was so damn close to get it because of ads and then i saw how much QoL features they cut out so they can sell it to you so now ill never get it just out of spite.
Hi is there a way to get around this for YouTube on the tv?
This company is garbage. Used YT since 2007, good bye YT…(For numerous reasons)
Lets add feature to lock native feature given by android so our premium has more value to it.
Just access YouTube through the phone’s web browser, your welcome
Edit: and put the page in desktop mode
I’ll just drop this here in case anyone needs it
I don’t pay for premium but my youtube app would sometimes play the videos in a minimized screen whenever I switch apps.
That’s like the only reason I have premium so as much as I don’t like paying for it it makes perfect business sense
Ad-free alone makes it worth it, for me.
On IPhone you can do this on the Website (NOT THE APP) and when you play it on locked screen it actually won’t have ads
There are apps that allow you to paste in the YT vid URL and watch them while switching apps / w screen off
Youtube “Pay me more” Premium