Life hacking: YouTube listen on Android with the screen via Telegram

On YouTube you can find just an infinite number of diverse content. And not necessarily the video. Here and music, and audio books, and various lectures and a lot more likely. All this can be viewed free of charge, except that sometimes interrupted for advertising.

But the official YouTube client for Android, there is one drawback - it can not play videos with the screen off to listen to the audio only. YouTube developers believe that you just have to watch the video. Well, or to pay for YouTube Premium - there is such a feature is.

Therefore, to use YouTube as a media player for music or lectures uncomfortable. Plug headphones into the smartphone, lock the screen, hide a gadget in your pocket and listen to the audio only will not work.

Around this limitation can help third-party clients like NewPipe or trick the full version of YouTube in the browser. But there is another way, more simple and elegant. To use it, you do not need other clients or browsers. Only installed Telegram and a link to a YouTube video.

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Open the desired video on YouTube and click "Share." Select an application where you want to send video, Telegram.

Save the video to "Favorites» Telegram.

Start video playback Telegram client. Click on the play button in the "Picture in Picture".

Lock the screen of the smartphone.

Done. Listen to the audio of the video from YouTube, as you want. Another plus - Telegram pop-up window appears on top of other applications, as expected. So you can quietly read or rewritten in place to lock the screen, watching and listening parallel video.

However, unfortunately, this trick does not ride with iOS. To listen to the audio from YouTube background on the iPhone, you can use special bot in the Telegram, to download the audio file entirely and stick it on any music player.

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Telegram

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YouTube

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