Did they seriously disable backround playing of youtube videos?

Its not Apple's fault.. Its Googles.

 

All 3rd party apps are "paused" when they are in the background. I assume the old build-in YouTube app were not affected by this.

 

Google wrote iOS and disabled background audio for Safari in iOS 6? Because it worked in iOS 5.

 

Still works if you use youtube on safari, i think its some limitation with 3rd party apps.

 

Google removed the functionality from their end, not Apple. 3rd party apps can still play music in the background. Rhapsody and Pandora can for example.

 

Use jasmine, it's a substitute to googles app. It's better in my opinion and has background playing.

 

Yeah, it's google who need to update their app, something which I suspect they won't do.

Use another Youtube app, such as Jasmine or McTube, or even use Safari to listen to background audio.

 

Use Spotify if it's music you want. No issues playing that in the background. I love how you're acting like this completely kills the entire deal for you.

 

They did it with all apps. Even if you try to play a video in the background from another site, it does that.

It's absolutely ridiculous, I agree. I have found only one solution and that is using the app "McTube" which circumvents this problem.

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It is Apple's, actually.

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Yep, Apple removed the functionality for ALL apps since iOS 6.1. No more open Safari, go and play a video, click home button, continue playing video by using the multitasking tray (to listen to music, or commentary, for example).

 

Background audio still works on the app 'McTube' last I checked.

 

I'm rather certain its only youtube, seeing how I can still play background music with pandora and soundcloud and spotify.

It's funny seeing people cry over not being able to listen to a video in the background, lol.

 

We're not talking about background music here. We're talking here about all apps that can play video. Those videos were able to run in the background before iOS 6.1.

Why would you want this? Some people like to play music that's embedded in a video... just because you use Spotify/Pandora/SoundCloud doesn't mean others do.
Also, it is easy for news programmes - for example. Before, you could just play those videos in the background and listen to the news - now you can't.
Finally, it's also nice for the more educative programs or documentaries, so you can listen to them in the background.

Like you, I use services like Spotify - which I find absolutely fantastic - but it is ridiclous that Apple has removed this functionality, even when it is not important to you.

Compare it to News Stand on your homescreen: a lot of people don't use it so a lot of people don't care if it is removed, but some people do actually use it. As irrelevant news stand seems to the first group of people, this second group of people will actually miss it.

 

Mctube does a great job for background playing

 

there was a work around. You could start watching a video, go to the home screen, double tap to bring up multi tasking, swipe right (to go left) and hit play. The audio would continue to play and you could do anything else. Not a lot of people knew about this.

 

You have to wonder why they did it though. I think it was an accident.

 

Made a thread about this a few weeks ago. Was pretty annoyed with the change. Someone suggested the app McTube and I tried it (Jasmine didn't seem to work). McTube works great!

 

download app called MCTube, it plays music in the background without any problems

 

Ok...so which is it? Who's right here?

EDIT: Just tried it and it works, so Bobby's right. So, no, it's not something Apple removed in iOS 6.1. My guess is that it's something Apple changed (not removed) and none of these other apps bothered to change to whatever method McTube is using.

 

We're both right. McTube acts as if it is a music player. That doesn't change the fact that you can't play videos (those that actually act as videos) anymore.

 

I can't see how you can both be right. You've said opposite things.

McTube takes the audio from the video and plays it in the background. In what way is that not a video playing in the background?

No, he said that no app can play videos in the background. You said McTube can. Those are contradictory statements. So only one of you can be right.

I tried it and it worked, so I'm saying that you were right.

 

If you read back, you'll see that I also mentioned McTube. McTube acts as if it is a music player and music players can continue to play music in the background. McTube isn't playing a video with sound, no they are taking the sound of a video and play that sound.