You too are probably a consumer of multimedia files with your Xiaomi 11T Pro, the favorite platform of Internet users remains by far YouTube. With 4 billion videos viewed per day worldwide, the only competitors that can keep up are the social media platforms Facebook and Instagram. However, if you watch video content, you probably want to do other things at the same time. It's true that with a smartphone you can't do as with your computer and change tabs to perform another task with YouTube in the background.

In this article, we are going to explain to you how to put YouTube in the background on Xiaomi 11T Pro. To do this, first, we will explain how to watch a YouTube video in the background, and, finally, how to minimize the YouTube application on your Xiaomi 11T Pro.

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How to make YouTube work in the background on Xiaomi 11T Pro?

There are two different techniques to continue playing a YouTube video in the background on an Android mobile phone, either you switch the application to the background, it's like when you switch applications and the YouTube application remains active as a task background on your Xiaomi 11T Pro. Of course to consume visual content it is practical to have the application in the foreground, despite everything, there are also many podcasts and music on this style of platform and suddenly to benefit from the sound without the visual is a logical desire. In addition, in the event that you turn off your screen, you will save your battery, a particularly scarce resource given that smartphones are more and more energy consumers. We will suddenly discover how to continue watching a YouTube video in the background on your Xiaomi 11T Pro.

Watch a YouTube video in the background on Xiaomi 11T Pro using YouTube Premium

If you sometimes want to put the YouTube application in the background on your Xiaomi 11T Pro without stopping the viewing of your content and therefore always enjoy the audio of your video, note that the ideal solution, and which in addition of this is the only fully authorized is to subscribe to YouTube Premium. Although paying, it is the solution directly developed by YouTube and which will suddenly answer your problem without any bug. It will inevitably be up to you to assess whether the expense corresponds to your use of the platform, but if you are a big consumer of videos, you should recoup the investment fairly quickly. Moreover, there exists exclusive content which is only offered for premium members. For € 9 / month you will have access to YouTube Music , this way you can play music in the background, and even download it to listen to it offline, plus you avoid all the ads. Otherwise for € 11 / month you will enjoy YouTube Premium to have the same advantages but with videos of the platform, you can still watch a windowed YouTube video on your Xiaomi 11T Pro.

Watch a YouTube video in the background through an application: New Pipe

After having detailed the paid and classic method, we will now discover how to use YouTube in the background for free on your Xiaomi 11T Pro. As we explained to you above, any third-party application for viewing YouTube content is prohibited by the terms of use of the platform, despite everything there are open source alternatives that allow you to bypass these rules. You expose that said to a legal risk , it is up to you to make your choice.

By going through the New Pipe application, you will be able to use after having downloaded and installed the app on your Xiaomi 11T Pro, benefit from the entire YouTube catalog directly from the application. You will be able to use YouTube in windowed or in the background. This is the best solution we have found, but beware, as Google does not like this style of application, there is always a risk that it will be deactivated sooner or later.

In case you are looking for how to download a youtube video to your xiaomi 11t pro, we invite you to read our article on this subject.

How to reduce a YouTube video on Xiaomi 11T Pro?

After having described the solutions available to play YouTube in the background on your mobile phone, we will now teach you how minimize the YouTube app on your Xiaomi 11T Pro. Note that the approach is very close to that seen exclusively above, for some solutions you will be referred to the procedure detailed in the previous part.

Reduce a YouTube video on Xiaomi 11T Pro with the latest version of the application

A majority of smartphone users do not think about updating applications, or do so deliberately by choice to save memory on their Xiaomi 11T Pro. However, you will not have access to some particularly interesting features. This is precisely the case of the YouTube app, if you update your application, you will realize that by pressing the button " Home  » of your Xiaomi 11T Pro, you will minimize YouTube and switch it to windowed mode . This will allow you to use other applications on your laptop.

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