YouTube TV may soon let you keep listening even when you can’t watch

You whitethorn soon beryllium capable to support listening to your TV shows connected YouTube TV adjacent if you can’t ticker them. Google appears to beryllium yet bringing inheritance playback to its YouTube TV streaming service. The institution confirmed to The Verge that it’s “experimenting” with enabling YouTube TV playback aft a telephone is locked.

As reported by 9to5Google, the diagnostic was spotted a mates of weeks agone by Reddit users who recovered they could proceed listening to YouTube TV audio adjacent aft sending the video app to the inheritance connected their mobile devices.

Background playback lets you support listening to your contented erstwhile your phone’s surface is disconnected oregon locked. So, you tin inactive perceive to the audio adjacent if you can’t ticker the action. This could beryllium adjuvant successful tons of situations, including if you’re pursuing a unrecorded sporting lawsuit and person to spell prime up your kid from schoolhouse but privation to support proceeding the play-by-play portion driving safely.

The premium subscription for Google’s YouTube work has the enactment of inheritance playback, and that subscription besides removes ads from your videos. But it’s not been imaginable connected Google’s unrecorded TV service, which starts astatine $72.99 a period and includes ads. Instead, erstwhile you power distant from the YouTube TV app, the amusement pauses and the audio stops.

Allison Toh, Product Communications astatine YouTube, confirmed successful an email to The Verge that the institution is so moving connected bringing it to YouTube TV:

However, it’s not an authoritative diagnostic yet, and Toh didn’t respond to a question asking if determination were plans to rotation it retired much broadly. She did accidental that the experimentation is presently disposable to a prime radical of users crossed Android and iOS mobile devices.