With tons of new content being uploaded to YouTube every day, viewers are at no loss for something new to watch. But sometimes you don't want something new, so setting a video to loop over and over again can be a good option.
Looping a video can be helpful if you're learning a new skill from a YouTube tutorial, or if you simply want an ambient video to continuously play in the background at an event.
Here's how to set up the feature on desktop or via the mobile app.
How to loop a YouTube video on desktop
This works regardless of the web browser you're using.
1. On the YouTube website, go to the video you want to put on repeat.
2. Right-click the video and select Loop in the pop-up.
Click "Loop." Grace Eliza Goodwin/Insider
How to loop a YouTube video on the mobile app
YouTube recently added the loop feature to the mobile app. It works for iPhone, iPad, and Android.
1. Open the YouTube app on your device and navigate to the video you want to loop.
2. Tap the screen to reveal the icon of three dots in the top-right corner, then tap the three dots to open the video menu.
Tap the three-dot icon. Grace Eliza Goodwin/Insider
3. In the pop-up, select Loop video. Note that the loop option does not appear in the pop-up if the advertisement before your video is still playing — you must wait for the ad to end before you can loop.
Select "Loop video." Grace Eliza Goodwin/Insider
To turn off the loop feature, you'd need to repeat this process. You can also loop playlists by going into a video in the playlist you want to loop and setting that video to loop.
Quick tip: You can also use a third-party site like Looptube or Listenonrepeat to loop full YouTube videos or just portions of the video, like if you were watching a tutorial and wanted to focus on a specific step.
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// 2. This code loads the IFrame Player API code asynchronously. var tag = document.createElement['script']; tag.src = "//www.youtube.com/iframe_api"; var firstScriptTag = document.getElementsByTagName['script'][0]; firstScriptTag.parentNode.insertBefore[tag, firstScriptTag]; // 3. This function creates an [and YouTube player] // after the API code downloads. var player; function onYouTubeIframeAPIReady[] { player = new YT.Player['player', { height:'100%', width: '100%', fitToBackground: true, videoId: '', playerVars: { 'autoplay': 1, 'controls': 0, 'autohide':1, 'enablejsapi':1, 'loop':1, 'disablekb':1, 'fs': 0, 'modestbranding': 0, 'showinfo': 0, 'color': 'white', 'theme': 'light', 'rel':0 , 'playlist': '' }, events: { 'onReady': onPlayerReady } }]; } // 4. The API will call this function when the video player is ready. function onPlayerReady[event] { event.target.playVideo[]; player.mute[]; player.setVolume[0]; //player.setSize[1920, 1080]; player.setLoop[true]; player.setPlaybackQuality['hd1080']; }Your Html code:
If you want to keep video in a variable use this:
YouTube is the most popular video streaming platform on earth and has amassed millions of videos since its advent over a decade ago. Its library is comprised of a huge variety ranging from kitchen tutorials to cat videos.
Its simplicity is one of the many reasons why it has exploded in popularity over the years. YouTube makes it so easy for creators to share content with a large audience and provides a great viewing experience for the audience.
Its app and website both are pretty feature-rich, but as with any piece of software, one may run into bugs and issues.
And one of the latest ones doing rounds across social media prevents the ‘Loop Playlist’ button from working on the YouTube desktop site.
I’ve been listening to music on youtube for a long time now, but this is a first. Basically, when I try to enable shuffling and/or looping, once the song/video is over it just goes to the next one and automatically unticks the loop/shuffle buttons.
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This only happens on the desktop site. Whenever it moves on to the next video, the loop button unselects itself. I’ve tried several computers with several different browsers in incognito mode and the issue persists.
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The loop button on the YouTube website allows one to take control of their viewing experience by looping a video or playlist.
It can be accessed by heading over to the watch screen of any video, clicking on the 3-dot button, and selecting the loop option. Normally, once this is turned on, the video or playlist repeats continuously.
But as already stated, the YouTube loop button is not working anymore. Users say that setting a video on a loop is fruitless as the next video plays regardless and the loop button unselects itself.
Similar behavior is observed on playlists where the playlist simply stops upon reaching the last video instead of looping even if the playlist loop option is turned on.
The issue only seems to have begun a few days ago as per complainants. It persists across all browsers including Brave, Edge, Firefox, and Chrome. No amount of cache clearing helps.
While the cause is unknown, YouTube has now acknowledged the matter saying that they’re looking into it.
In the meantime, there is nothing really to be done other than waiting for a fix to be implemented. The bug is a server-side thing so it will be fixed without requiring any user intervention.
You can always keep an eye on our dedicated YouTube bug tracker though.
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Hello, I recently ran into a problem regarding the youtube playlist "Loop" [Repeat] feature. While it would allow me to loop 1 [one] single video, it doesn't seem to work on looping the entire playlist itself. It stops at the last video and doesn't seem to repeat anymore.
+ Whenever I do try to toggle the loop button, it seems to disappear once the next video starts as if I've never even pressed in the first place. This problem is found in all of my playlists and I have tried resetting the site's data, cookies, and caches.
Thank you so much for reading! I'd love to get the help as soon as possible.