YouTube has quietly pushed an update to its mobile website to block background playback on some third-party web browsers, but ...

YouTube has been updated so that non-Premium users can no longer access background playback by accessing a third-party browser. YouTube’s background play feature—the ability to play only the audio of ...

Google is enforcing its background playback rules strictly, limiting the experience for Premium members only and blocking ...

Users who relied on free background playback will now need to upgrade or find alternative ways to listen to content. Google product manager Jane Williams added that the update is part of ongoing ...

Android P, the next major version of the Android operating system, will block idle (background) applications from accessing a smartphone's camera or microphone. Both of these changes were approved and ...

Google says it has started enforcing its YouTube Premium requirement for background playback on mobile.