Hi, when I open YouTube in Safari on my iPad and start listening to a song, it switches off when I switch tabs or apps. So I click play in control centre to resume it to run in the background. However, it randomly switches off and I get the option to play a random song from Apple Music. Any idea how to stop this behavior? Happens very frequently to the point of non usability.
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iPad Background Music Switches
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open the youtube website, start your video, go full screen, then select PiP, and movie the PiP-window off the iPad screen.
Then do whatever else you want. Music/video play continues; will stop if you open a video or sound file in another app. There might be some problems with ads youtube embedds - I‘m using Adguard and Hush to deal with that.
Also it will stop if you visit some websites which embedd e.g. a javascript player which support stills and video - if you open any article page on arstechnica your music or video running in Safari or any other app (VLC, Filebrowser, etc.) will stop.
Then do whatever else you want. Music/video play continues; will stop if you open a video or sound file in another app. There might be some problems with ads youtube embedds - I‘m using Adguard and Hush to deal with that.
Also it will stop if you visit some websites which embedd e.g. a javascript player which support stills and video - if you open any article page on arstechnica your music or video running in Safari or any other app (VLC, Filebrowser, etc.) will stop.
Sounds to me like Apple Music is set to random autoplay. Try disabling or check settings in Apple Music or the Music app.
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Check out these steps and suggestions to stop autoplay (applies to iPad):
www.lifewire.com
How to Stop Apple Music From Automatically Playing
Tips for how to stop Apple Music from automatically playing on your iPhone when connecting to a car, headphones, earphones, speaker, or AirPods.
iPads don’t appear to have the same buttons/features in iOS.
Now I have youtube playing in the background while in control centre it’s not showing anything as playing.
Now I have youtube playing in the background while in control centre it’s not showing anything as playing.
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It's the infinity button that turns on or off autoplay. It seems to not always be available for many.
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yer, I don’t see it.
I uninstalled the music app, that hasn’t fixed it, music stops anyway!
I uninstalled the music app, that hasn’t fixed it, music stops anyway!
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