How to play youtube videos in the background on my Iphone?

So I'm not sure if apple changed it or something, but I no longer can play music in the background on my phone. I used to just open up a youtube video, click the home button, then click it twice and slide over to the play button. Is anyone else having this problem?

I was able to do that too, but ever since i put music on my device it wount show the website

Download TubeBox from the App Store. Its £0.69 ($1) but it does the job perfectly, and allows you to play songs in the background, and even cache them so you watch/listen to them offline.

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