Keep Playing: Background Video

Leave Safari. The video keeps playing, and the ads do not. Keep Playing works with any website that uses a standard HTML5 player. Start a video, tap the button that appears over it, and playback carries on while you answer a message, read something else, or put the phone in your pocket. WHAT IT DOES • Background playback — one tap moves the video into a Picture-in-Picture window that iOS keeps alive after you leave Safari • Skips ad breaks — in-player ads are muted and skipped, Skip is pressed the moment it appears, and overlay and banner ads are removed from the page • Lock screen controls — the real title, the real artwork, and working play, pause and seek from the lock screen and Control Center • No more self-pausing — many players stop the moment the page is hidden; Keep Playing tells them the page is still there • No more "are you still watching?" — the dialogs that interrupt long…