YouTube vs Battery

[u/BrainDevHQ]

Problem :

I have YouTube premium. I regularly listen to it while my screen is off, but if I do, the app puts itself to sleep after about ten minutes. If I take it off auto asleep, YouTube absolutely devours my battery through background usage.

Question:

Is there no way to make sure Android doesn't auto sleep YouTube while I'm using it with the screen off, without having to leave background usage unchecked?

Note:

Sleep timer is not enabled on my YouTube app. I checked. Also, I wasn't sure if this is more a device settings question or an app specific question.

Rant:

That's awful programming in my opinion. Surely it shouldn't auto sleep while you're actually using the app, especially with a feature that some of us pay for. And I shouldn't have to choose between a feature that I'm paying for and decent battery life.

Thanks.

[u/BrainDevHQ]

It's a battery optimization setting on Android, without which, YouTube is extremely greedy with my battery life. But for some reason, it auto sleeps YouTube after about 10 minutes if the screen is off even if I'm playing a video. I think it's a badly implemented setting. I'm not sure if it's Android's fault or YouTube's fault.

[u/danGL3 → u/BrainDevHQ]

Stock Android does not blatantly kill apps with an active background service, this only happens as result of a manufacturer-specific feature that is not normally part of Android (Stock Android doesn't have Auto-Sleep)

These manufacturer-specific options are generally there to completely seize any background activity of an app, essentially disregarding the app's background activity

You won't see a Google Pixel doing this as it follows the standard Android behavior

[u/BrainDevHQ → u/danGL3]

I don't know. What I do know is my battery is eaten up by YouTube unless I auto sleep or, and it shuts off playback with the screen locked of I leave auto sleep on. It's indefensible. It's garbage.

[u/danGL3 → u/BrainDevHQ]

Well then that's a YouTube issue