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You probably know that listening to YouTube with the screen off on iPhone requires a YouTube Premium subscription. That plan, if you don’t use the music part, costs an arm… But you do get offline listening, background playback, and no ads.
So, how do you listen without that subscription? You need to install Brave, which is a browser that already blocks all advertising on YouTube. This browser has a “playlist” feature that lets you — as the name suggests — build a playlist from any video on the web. What we’re interested in here is listening to a YouTube video without the iPhone screen being on. To do that, just go to the site from the Brave browser and start a video. When it launches, you’ll see a button appear saying “add to playlist”; just tap it and the download will start. Once it’s done the video is available (options menu, then playlist), and you can start the video and turn off your phone screen.
You’ll notice one currently annoying issue: the playlist in Brave doesn’t remember where you stopped in the video. So every time you resume, the video will play from the beginning 😅.
