You too are certainly a consumer of multimedia files with your Samsung Galaxy S20 FE, the favorite application of Internet users remains with a substantial YouTube margin. With 4 billion videos watched daily worldwide, the only serious competitors turn out to be the social media platforms Facebook and Instagram. Even so, in the event that you are watching video content, you probably want to do something else 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.

We are going to teach you in this article how to shrink YouTube video on Samsung Galaxy S20 FE. To do this, to begin with, we will teach you how to watch a YouTube video in the background, and, then, how to minimize the YouTube application on your Samsung Galaxy S20 FE.

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How to watch YouTube video in the background on Samsung Galaxy S20 FE?

There are two different techniques to minimize YouTube video on Android phone, either you hover the app in the background, it's like when you switch apps and the YouTube app remains active in the background on your Samsung Galaxy S20 FE. Certainly to consume visual content it is still more logical to have the application in the foreground, however, there are also a lot of podcasts and music on this style of platform and suddenly to enjoy the sound without the visual is a logical urge. In addition, in the event that you turn off your screen you will save battery, a particularly scarce resource given that smartphones are always more energy intensive. We will suddenly explain how to watch a YouTube video in the background on your Samsung Galaxy S20 FE.

Watch a YouTube video in the background on Samsung Galaxy S20 FE through YouTube Premium

In the event that you sometimes want to reduce the YouTube application on your Samsung Galaxy S20 FE without stopping viewing your content and suddenly still enjoy the audio of your video, note that the most judicious solution, and what's more the only one really allowed is to subscribe to YouTube Premium. Although paid, it is the solution directly developed by YouTube and which will suddenly respond to your problem without any bug. It will inevitably be up to you to assess whether the budget corresponds to your use of the platform, but if you are a large consumer of videos you should pay off the investment fairly quickly. Also there are exclusive content which is only available for premium members. For € 9 / month you will have access to YouTube Music , you will be able to play music in the background, and even download it to listen to it offline, plus you avoid all the ads. Or so for € 11 / month you will benefit from YouTube Premium to have the same advantages but with videos of the platform, you can also view a windowed YouTube video on your Samsung Galaxy S20 FE.

Watch a YouTube video in the background using an app: New Pipe

After having explained the paid and normal method, we will now explain how to use YouTube in the background for free on your Samsung Galaxy S20 FE. As we explained to you just before, any third-party application to watch YouTube content is prohibited by the terms of use of the platform, however there are open source alternatives that allow you to bypass these rules. You still expose yourself to a legal risk , You decide.

Thanks to the New Pipe application, you will be able to use after having downloaded and installed the app on your Samsung Galaxy S20 FE, enjoy 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 option we have found, but beware, given that Google prohibits this style of application there is always the risk that it will be disabled one day or another.

In the event that you are looking for how to download a YouTube video to your Samsung Galaxy S20 FE, do not hesitate to read our guide on this subject.

How to shrink YouTube video on Samsung Galaxy S20 FE?

After explaining the solutions available to play YouTube in the background on your phone, we will now teach you how to minimize the YouTube app on your Samsung Galaxy S20 FE. Note that the approach is very close to the one seen just above, for some solutions you will be referred to the procedure detailed in the previous part.

Play a YouTube video in windowed mode using YouTube Premium on Samsung Galaxy S20 FE

As we explained to you previously, you will be able to window your YouTube video with the Premium subscription , read the first part of this guide to get all the information, to summarize yourself, in the event that you just want to use this option for YouTube music, you will have to pay 9 € / month, or so , for all YouTube the subscription is 99; € 11.

Reduce YouTube video on Samsung Galaxy S20 FE with latest app version

A large part of smartphone users do not think about updating applications, or they do so voluntarily by choice to conserve memory on their Samsung Galaxy S20 FE. Despite everything, you deprive yourself of some particularly useful features. This is precisely the case with the YouTube app, if you update your app, you will notice that pressing the button " Home  »Of your Samsung Galaxy S20 FE, 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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