# Background Play / Keep Player Open (Android) **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Suggestions\ **Created:** [November 24, 2016, 8:33pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/background-play-keep-player-open-android/168319 "2016-11-24T20:33:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MysticRyuujin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/mysticryuujin/32/131821_2.png) [@MysticRyuujin](https://forums.plex.tv/u/MysticRyuujin)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2016, 8:33pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/background-play-keep-player-open-android/168319/1 "2016-11-24T20:33:24Z")
By far the biggest complaint I have and the #1 reason I don’t use Plex on Android on a daily basis is the fact that if I do literally anything other than just watch the video I’m kicked back to the video’s landing page. Which I then have to hope it remembered my place and picks up where I left off without too much buffering / loading. Other players, such as MX Player let me enable background play so that the video doesn’t HAVE to stop every time I want to go check an email or check Google maps or something similar. It’s kinda of frustrating… Even if the video didn’t background play, but paused just paused and let me return directly into the player and pickup where I left off would be 1000x better than sending me back to the landing page… ---
**Author:** ![celegorm13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@celegorm13](https://forums.plex.tv/u/celegorm13)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2017, 5:19pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/background-play-keep-player-open-android/168319/2 "2017-05-11T17:19:10Z")
I’d love background play like MX player. 9 times out of 10 when I’m actually using my phone to play media i’m either driving or cutting the grass. In both cases I’m using it solely for audio in place of music and have 0 need to see the video, let alone keep the screen turned on. It’s nice with other players like MX where you can have the audio going and still use your phone for like google maps as well. ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2021, 12:13am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/background-play-keep-player-open-android/168319/3 "2021-08-30T00:13:41Z")
2021 clean-up: duplicate > [@\[Feature Request\] Support background playback of content on mobile](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-support-background-playback-of-content-on-mobile/222778): > > Please consider supporting background video playback on mobile. While at work, driving, going to sleep, etc., I would love to be able to start video playback and continue listening to the audio component of the video media even after I have: navigated away from plex to another app locked my mobile device or turned off the screen accidentally done 1 or 2 above… YouTube Red offers background video playback as a premium feature. I would be thrilled to have a similar feature included with my ple…