You could quickly be capable to maintain listening to your TV reveals on YouTube TV even if you happen to can’t watch them. Google seems to be lastly bringing background playback to its YouTube TV streaming service. The firm confirmed to The Verge that it’s “experimenting” with enabling YouTube TV playback after a telephone is locked.
As reported by 9to5Google, the function was noticed a few weeks in the past by Reddit customers who discovered they might proceed listening to YouTube TV audio even after sending the video app to the background on their cellular units.
Background playback enables you to maintain listening to your content material when your telephone’s display is off or locked. So, you’ll be able to nonetheless hearken to the audio even if you happen to can’t watch the motion. This could possibly be useful in numerous conditions, together with if you happen to’re following a dwell sporting occasion and should go decide up your child from college however wish to maintain listening to the play-by-play whereas driving safely.
The premium subscription for Google’s YouTube service has the choice of background playback, and that subscription additionally removes adverts out of your movies. But it’s not been attainable on Google’s dwell TV service, which begins at $72.99 a month and consists of adverts. Instead, once you change away from the YouTube TV app, the present pauses and the audio stops.
Allison Toh, product communications supervisor at YouTube, confirmed in an e-mail to The Verge that the corporate is certainly engaged on bringing it to YouTube TV:
I can verify that we’re operating an experiment that permits YouTube TV playback to proceed after the telephone display is locked for Android and iOS cellular customers.
If a viewer has the YouTube TV app on after which goes to lock their telephone, playback will proceed. If customers wish to keep away from background playback, they’ll pause the video earlier than locking their telephone.
However, it’s not an official function but, and Toh didn’t reply to a query asking if there have been plans to roll it out extra broadly. She did say that the experiment is at the moment obtainable to a choose group of customers throughout Android and iOS cellular units.
