hi sweet friends! hope you’ve been well :) thought i would post this a bit early for any of my friends working night shift who are heading to bed (i’ve been working your schedule for a while now and it can be hard to fall asleep)
To listen while using other apps, switch the player to Picture-in-Picture (PiP) during playback — it keeps playing in a small floating window (the screen stays on).
To listen with the screen fully off, in-browser playback stops by YouTube's design. Open the video in the YouTube app to keep listening where background playback is supported (e.g. with YouTube Premium).
Open in YouTube app