YouTube Music

New ‘rasperry’ tweak keeps YouTube playing in the background when you close the app

Anthony Bouchard ∙ April 3, 2021

YouTube’s background media playback is a feature in both the YouTube and YouTube Music apps is typically reserved for Premium users who pay a monthly subscription fee. This same subscription also unlocks other creature comforts including ad-free playback.

Fortunately for jailbreakers, background playback and an ad-free listening experience don’t necessarily require an active subscription, as jailbreak tweaks made specifically for the YouTube and YouTube Music apps can lift the frustrating subscription requirement.

The best music apps for kids on iPhone and iPad

Sandy Writtenhouse ∙ Updated April 25, 2024

Discover some of the best music apps for your kids so they can listen to, sign along, or make their own music, ensuring a healthy mix of entertainment and creativity.

How to change the default music service on HomePod

Sandy Writtenhouse ∙ Updated June 2, 2024

In this tutorial, we will tell you all about changing the default music service on your HomePod from Apple Music to something else such as YouTube Music, Pandora, Deezer, Tidal, etc.

These tweaks can improve the YouTube & YouTube Music experiences on iOS

Anthony Bouchard ∙ April 18, 2020

Both YouTube and YouTube Music are among some of the most popular entertainment apps available for the iOS platform, but that fact alone doesn’t mean that the services themselves are flawless. Many users share similar gripes when it comes to using these apps, whether it’s too many ads or lack of user configuration.

Fortunately, there are add-ons that can augment the user experience in these apps, and a newly released set of free jailbreak tweaks dubbed YouTube Music Reborn and YouTube Reborn by iOS developer SarahH12099 are absolutely worth checking out if you align yourself with either of the aforementioned complaint cases.

YouTube Music is rolling out an Explore tab to make discovering new music even easier

Evan Selleck ∙ April 14, 2020

Being able to find and listen to the music you already know and love is an important aspect of streaming services, but so is discoverability of new tracks and artists you might like. And YouTube Music is adding a new tab to help with that.

YouTube Music for iOS launches song lyrics

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated August 21, 2023

Just a day after Apple brought the real-time Apple Music lyrics feature from iOS to macOS via the macOS Catalina 10.15.4 update, which released yesterday, Google has now added a similar lyrics feature of its own to its official YouTube Music app for iPhone and iPad.