YouTube's background play feature has stopped working on Samsung Internet, Microsoft Edge, Brave, and other browsers.

YouTube Music playback now syncs across multiple mobile devices, after previously only syncing between desktop and mobile.

Google has told website Android Authority that YouTube is now blocking background playback in third-party browsers on mobile devices. A spokesperson said: “Background playback is a feature intended to ...

A long-standing workaround that allowed YouTube videos to keep playing in the background through third-party Android browsers ...

Google has plugged a known loophole that allowed Android users to access background playback without a Premium subscription.

Samsung Internet, Brave, and other third-party browser users on Android have noticed their non-Premium workaround is no longer functioning.