Reviews of Video Background Play Fix
List of user reviews and ratings for Video Background Play Fix
Total ratings
4.46
(Rating count:
1,369)Review summary
Video Background Play Fix is praised for enabling background play on YouTube with minimal performance impact, making mobile viewing more convenient. However, multiple users report that the Picture-in-Picture feature on Android has stopped working, with videos pausing or stopping abruptly. Also, videos often stop after a short time, causing tab reloads and loss of playback position. Users request support for privacy-focused YouTube frontends and better compatibility, particularly with music.youtube.com playlists. Overall, it is a valuable extension but has recent functionality issues needing fixes. Pros
- Effectively enables video background play, allowing videos to continue playing with screen off.
- Minimal impact on device performance during usage.
- Works well on YouTube and improves user experience especially on mobile devices.
- Useful for users who want to listen to videos without keeping the screen on.
- Generally reliable and appreciated by users for its core functionality.
Cons
- Picture-in-Picture (PnP) or mini player for YouTube has stopped working recently on Android, causing videos to stop or pause immediately.
- Background playback often stops after about 30 seconds and may cause the browser tab to reload, resulting in losing the video's current position.
- No support for privacy-focused frontends like Invidious or Soundcloak.
- Issues with autoplay of the next video and interaction with YouTube's user interface causing errors or interruptions.
- Does not work with music.youtube.com, leading to playlist pauses when the screen is off.
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All time rating average:
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| Date | Author | Rating | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-11 | Firefox user 16302925 | | i like the way it works on youtube. but can you please enable support for privacy frontends like soundcloak, invidious? |
| 2025-05-10 | elsen | | |
| 2025-05-09 | Firefox user 18206352 | | Used to work great for playing Youtube.com at night to help me sleep now since 2 weeks or so ago it stops auto playing the next video then I get a phone error thinking it doesn't have internet when I do and everything else works. |
| 2025-05-09 | Firefox user 18983323 | | |
| 2025-05-07 | RingyRing | | |
| 2025-05-05 | h3xx | | Does what it says on the label, with minimal imact to performance. YouTube and its user-hostile designs can suck it. |
| 2025-04-29 | Kleene | | Allows me to turn my screen off and the video will keep playing, but then after a random amount of time it will pause, and when I go back into the tab the whole page reloads usually causing me to loose my place. Probably unrelated to this app, but this app does not really did the usability of YouTube for me. |
| 2025-04-28 | WldpoldE | | Thanks bro, It's really useful for me :) |
| 2025-04-23 | Firefox user 18396110 | | Android: PnP quit working comments on yt no longer show up when try to play in the background it stops in about 30 sec, then, when I go back to the browser it forces a reload losing my place Please fix. |
| 2025-04-15 | Firefox user 18941731 | | Ok |
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