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YouTube TV may soon let you keep listening even when you can’t watch

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

You may soon be able to keep listening to your TV shows on YouTube TV even if you can’t watch them. Google appears to be finally bringing background playback to its YouTube TV streaming service. The company confirmed to The Verge that it’s “experimenting” with enabling YouTube TV playback after a phone is locked.

As reported by 9to5Google, the feature was spotted a couple of weeks ago by Reddit users who found they could continue listening to YouTube TV audio even after sending the video app to the background on their mobile devices.

Background playback lets you keep listening to your content when your phone’s screen is off or locked. So, you can still listen to the audio even if you can’t watch the action. This could be helpful in…

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