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what's up guys Lew here back with a bonus video for you today two-for-one this is a tip a hack you might want to call it for how to play YouTube in the background on your smartphone so you can go about your other business you know messaging people browsing the web and so on now why would you want a video in the background doesn't make much sense Luke the main reason here is for music plenty of people use YouTube for the music discovery for their playlists and so on but also long-form spoken word content podcasts you might want to have that on in the background and the YouTube app does not allow you to do that natively but there is a workaround now this has been out for a little while but if you're like me maybe you missed it maybe you hadn't seen it before so I thought I was just gonna bring it to you let's get started on iOS and then jump into Android because they're different workarounds for each platform now if I'm just playing some audio hopefully you guys can hear that now if I'm gonna click out of that that audio is just gonna stop right that's in the app okay Lou yes I get it you close the app and the song stops playing what's the deal here alright real simple launch into Safari go to youtube.com in the URL section there search up the song you want to play start playing it again okay same song in this case no problem here but what happens when you back out now oh but it still stops okay here's the trick lift up from the bottom you'll see it still shows the media right there now hit the play button again oh look at me I'm in my phone doing whatever I want while still listening to my music get it okay recap you don't want to use the YouTube app load up the mobile YouTube site play the song back out of it and then just hit play again down here in your quick options don't want to leave the Android users out same scenario here if you go to the YouTube app you play this song beautiful it's playing but you back out and you're dead the song stops so what do we do here download Firefox real simple this is a browser if you're unaware it's free in the App Store go to the mobile site play the song back out money in the bank the inventory of music available on YouTube and the playlists and everything that you can do that it's very powerful so being able to make that happen in the background so you can still do your other activities is a pretty compelling feature in my opinion I wish it was built in by default but it's not so that's how you get it done iOS iPhone and Android tell your friends