Interesting - hadn't heard of this option before. But I see that "Premium Lite" is not available in NZ... https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6307365?sjid=92752...

But at least you have IKEA

The whole country is rejoicing!

I still can't believe that they paywalled the ability for the video to keep playing when the screen is turned off.

Probably a business decision that's made them a lot of money, well done.

Thank goodness for ReVanced.

>I still can't believe that they paywalled the ability for the video to keep playing when the screen is turned off.

That's why I will never pay, no matter how much people glaze yt premium. I distinctly remember the day they took that simple feature away. uBlock and Vanced work fine, and it's also not hard to download to my media server for offline

I don't want to reward a company for shitty practices. What are they even doing at youtube besides changing the UI every 3 months and stuffing AI where it isn't wanted/needed.

At the bare minimum they need to enable the ability to blacklist entire channels, like I can easily do on my home setup. And ban AI videos without a label. Then they can have my $8

It's only for music where background play isn't supported for free.

Is this true? Nothing will play for me with my screen off.

No. What you describe is correct: No background play via the yt app unless you pay.

Yes YouTube Premium will play with the screen off (using the app. No idea about using a browser).

In a browser, it works even without Youtube Premium :-)

Firefox mobile, m.youtube.com, "Video Background Play Fix" browser extension.

Works for me without an extension, you just need to click play again after leaving the YouTube tab/locking the phone

So does ReVanced YouTube

On iOS I use Brave and it works fine.

Wasn't aware of this option... I'd actually switched to YT Music because the family plan for YT premium is/was pretty good. Nice to know I can bring it down in the future.