With a YouTube Music Premium membership, you can choose between listening to content or watching videos from the creators you love.
Note: Users in select countries/regions may encounter different product experiences.
Note: Audio-only mode is available to all podcast listeners regardless of membership status, but it may not be available for all content.
What is audio mode?
Switch between audio and video mode
Turn on audio-only mode:
- Open the YouTube Music app
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- In the top right corner, select your profile photo.
- Tap Settings
Data saving.
- Toggle Don’t play music videos and Don’t play podcast videos on.
Data saving.You can also listen to full albums regardless of whether some songs in the album have YouTube videos or not. If a song does not have an accompanying music video, the audio version will play instead.
Audio-only mode does not prevent music videos from being played in YouTube Music. If the only file available for playback on YouTube Music is a music video, the music video will play in audio-only mode.