Hey, pardon my sniffling! My sinuses are still on the angry side from when I was sick last week. But I figured I'd kill two birds with one stone and make an ASMR video while I worked on my writing!
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