Under the screen brightness setting, you should see the artist and name of your song with a play button icon below.

Just lock your phone, hit the home button, and then swipe up to open the control centre - you know, the screen where you switch on your torch. If you're not using headphones, or they don't have one of those little buttons on the cord, that's fine too. But if you're wearing headphones with a little mic/controller, all you have to do is hit the play button, and the song will start again, allowing you to use YouTube like a free music streaming service. Start it playing, skip through the ad, and then hit the home button to take you back to your home screen.

To make this work, you first need to ditch the official YouTube app (admit it, it's terrible for searching anyway) and find your favourite song on YouTube via your Safari browser. But clever tech lovers online have found a work-around for this problem (for iPhone users at least), and we've done our own testing to prove that it really does work - the only thing that we can't figure out is why we weren't made aware of this sooner.ĭon't take our word for it, go and try it for yourself using the steps below.

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