YouTube is aiming to sweeten the bundle for its Premium Lite plan by including two options which are already included within the ad-free Premium subscription. Background Play and Downloads are rolling out to YouTube Premium Lite, the corporate announced in a blog post on Tuesday. The subscription tier was launched within the US in March 2025 at $8 a month, providing “most movies” ad-free — with music movies excluded from being freed from commercials.
Premium Lite allows you to stream YouTube Children and YouTube movies for gaming, magnificence, podcasts and different non-music content material with out adverts. YouTube Shorts and music content material are among the many movies the place you’ll nonetheless see advert breaks. Upgrading to the Premium subscription brings you every little thing on YouTube ad-free, with entry to YouTube Music Premium included at no further price.
Starting right this moment and increasing into the approaching weeks, Lite subscribers around the globe can watch movies offline or allow them to play within the background. The Google-owned media big stated it listened to consumer suggestions on these two options and granted the favored request.
When you’d been utilizing a workaround to play YouTube within the background whereas doing different duties or together with your display screen locked, however your normal strategies have stopped working, it is as a result of Google lately cracked down on workarounds, akin to advert blocking and taking part in YouTube movies on different browsers. Because the characteristic is available only to YouTube Premium members, it now not works in some browsers or on Android and iOS units. Including Background Play to Premium Lite could tempt some folks to enroll in a paid subscription.
