When audio content is playing on current new iPads (either pure audio from a podcast or audio from a video like YouTube) does the iPad halt the audio and sleep when the magnetic cover is closed? Is there an iOS setting which would just shut off the screen but allow the audio stream to continue (to earphones)? Are there covers or cases that do not have the magnets as in standard Apple covers?
iPad Air 2 Wi-Fi, iOS 11.4
On my iPad pro with the Apple mag cover both music (built in app) and Overcast (for Podcasts) continue to play when the cover is closed.
The only setting I know of to do with the lock screen is to make / stop a click when the cover is closed (Settings / Sounds / Lock Sound)
This is with 11.4
On my iPad pro with the Apple mag cover both music (built in app) and Overcast (for Podcasts) continue to play when the cover is closed.
The only setting I know of to do with the lock screen is to make / stop a click when the cover is closed (Settings / Sounds / Lock Sound)
This is with 11.4
Sorry missed the YouTube test 😊
YouTube adverts / videos stop playing with the latest version of the app after about 1 second of the cover being closed.
YouTube Premium supports background playing (according to the pop up I get after the test) but I cannot try that for you as I do not have a subscription.
If you use the YouTube app, audio/video should continue to play when iPad sleeps or the smart cover is closed.
The thing that does NOT work, without a monthly subscription/conscription to YouTube RED, is Picture in Picture ( PiP ).
To circumvent this Picture in Picture subscription feature limitation, look at a app in the iOS App Store for an app called Corner tube.
CornerTube - PiP for YouTube by Tiny Whale Pte. Ltd.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cornertube-pip-for-youtube/id1073199994?mt=8
Would have agreed over the sound but YouTube launched Premium here in the UK recently (18th June) and the latest version of the App (13.23 from the 18th also) has changed its workings - a right royal pain for me as I used to listen to a fair number of long streams (1 hour +) but now have to turn the brightness right down so I am not distracted...
This impacts users in US, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, and Mexico as well as Austria, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Russia, Spain, Sweden as well as me.
A quick guide is Using YouTube Premium benefits - YouTube Help and drop down the 'Background Play' notes.
I am streaming YouTube right now from the app, from my iPad Pro to my Roku box to my flat screen TV and if I Iet my iPad display sleep OR close the cover the video is STILL playing.
I can even control playback from the lock screen or iOS Control Panel.
Does not halt the video.
Also, for some of the YouTube app limitations, I switch to accessing YouTube from a web browser, using the YT desktop website, instead.
Im not streaming - just playing direct on the iPad.
The YT desktop suffers the same shut down problem (I assume you link via www.youtube.com/?app=desktop ) here - I'll have to build an AirPlay receiver from my Raspberry Pi to test streaming as my Sony TV only withs with Android 😕😊😕
Andrew answered my question about podcasts. Anybody have an answer about YouTube? If a video is playing and the mag cover is closed, does the iPad go to sleep or does audio persist?
Thank you!!!
Does iPad audio halt when magnetic cover is closed?
