IOS 6 - Listening to Videos with the screen off or in the background??

Looks like this is not yet solved in ios7.

Another workaround - tested on iphone 3gs, iphone 5 and ipod 4 on ios6; ipod 5 on ios7

(requires itunes)

1. Choose video(s) you want to background play - or any you would like to have in a separate playlist for that matter. **I tried this with an itunes purchased tv show as well as dvds I've ripped that have no drm and downloaded and converted youtube and other sources. All worked for me on current (11.1.0.126) and past itunes editions.

2. Right click and choose "get info" (yes, you want to edit multiples).

3. Click on the tab "options"

4. Change media kind to "music video"

5. All videos you chose before clicking "get info" now disappear and reappear in "Music"

6. Go to "Music." Make a playlist and sync to your device or copy these music videos however you usually copy music to your device.

7. On your device, look for the videos in your music app. If you didn't already use a playlist, you can now put them into playlists if you want to.

8. To background sound play, start playing the video of your choice (within the music app), lock your device (it will stop), double tap home button, press play ("music" will start), and lock phone again. Will continue to play. Alternatively, after starting the video, you can press the home button, then double tap the home button, scroll left to right, press play, and you can use other apps while the sound of the video plays.

Oh I think I may know another one that works for videos, not too sure if it still works though, I used this on iOS 5 before I knew about the multitasking thing.

1. Download Djay in the App Store.

2. Open it, and you can see your music there. However, you can also see video names. Press the video name and let it load

3. Click play, and you can listen to the video.

AGAIN, apologies if this doesn't work I'm trying it out after I post this. I'll probably edit this (if we can.?) if it doesn't work.

If I haven't edited this part that means it does work and you can use this :)

Argh, apologies, Algoriddim deleted their old app, Djay 1, which was the one you could do videos with.

If you have like AppAddict or something you might be able to use it to download the old one.

Otherwise I'm pretty sure there should be another app that works as well, that you may find if you put your time into looking for one.

I'll see if I can find one and I'll reply yet again once I've found it xD

I checked out the videos app a couple years ago and actually deleted it due to this issue. Now I've signed up for a program where I NEED to learn material which for me means listening to the audio for extended periods, whether or not I can see the video. I could convert the video to audio, but whatever. My phone is getting old; maybe the replacement doesn't need to be an iPhone. I'm sick of giving people a bunch of money and then putting in more work than folks who simply don't seem to care. Contrast that with "it just works". Yeah, right.

If the audio is in your music App then you will be able to do this, but if its a video on the internet on YouTube for example then you cant

I Have just tested this with the Video App and its worked

Thank you for the feedback.

No problem 🙂

No running iOS 6 on iphone 4s

Do you know how to restore the device in itunes?