How to listen to Youtube videos when your iPhone is in your pocket.

Youtube doesn‘t allow you to listen to videos in the background, at least not in the free version. Today I finally found a little hack to be able to listen to a video when I‘m on the go.

1. Open the video on Youtube in Safari

2. Use the iOS share sheet and share the video url to Instapaper

3. Open the video in Instapaper and play it in full screen

4. Click on the Picture in Picture Mode

5. Lock the iPhone and activate the lock screen 

6. Hit play on the lock screen

Now the video is playing in the background 🎉