Same here too.
Screen locks after 60s watching YouTube.
Brave 1.75.180, Chromium 133.0.6943.126
Samsung S23 on Android 14; Build/UP1A.231005.007.
Happy to put up with it for now, tapping the screen every 30s - still better than watching ads! Thanks for looking into this dev team!
Same issue, Pixel Tablet, v1.75.180, Android 15.
Turned off adaptive brightness, continually close and you Brave, happens constantly.
The bug is still present in Brave 1.75.180, Chromium 133.0.6943.126.
To me it looks like it doesn’t tell to the system to inhibit turning off the screen.
I found that by putting it on desktop site stops your screen from turning off.
Same problem here. I use Brave for Ubuntu in my laptop and today the screen turned off while watching Youtube videos. It never happened before. Did anybody find a solution?
Brave Version 1.75.181 Chromium: 133.0.6943.141 (Official Build) (64-bit)
UPDATE: after closing it, cleaning the cache and turning off graphics acceleration, Brave is working without problems right now.
Super excited to try this, then realised I had already changed it to desktop mode 
I found the fixed the issue for me & I hope that will help you too & help the developers to pinpoint the issue so that it can be fixed in the next update.
Simply all you have to do is the following:
go to your App Info> Battery> select unrestricted , after doing that all you have to do is close your app & clear its cache.
After opening the app on a video tap, you will see a notification for a quick second below that says something around “block turn off screen while watching video … undo”
Whatever you do DON’T click UNDO & let the notification disappear in peace & no need to worry doing this will not activate your camera while watching videos.
For developers, it appears at least for me that this issue is tied to one of the settings that it changes based on if the app is battery optimized or unrestricted, I hope you find that setting & fix it soon or make a toggle for it in your app settings.
It happened to me too today. Everything was working fine since I started using Brave and then all of the sudden today I cannot watch any video, the screen shuts off after a little while and I have to touch the screen all the time to keep it on. That’s how I ended up here. I tried turning off adaptive brightness, starting new tabs, Autoplay in Site settings was already on. Finally good old fashioned Force stop app helped things go back to normal.
Brave 1.76.73, Chromium 134.0.69998.45,
Samsung S23, Android 14, Build UP1A.231005.007
Same here.
App version: Brave 1.76.73, Chromium 134.0.6998.45
OS Android 12
Hey! I was very annoyed with this issue and your tip did the trick for me.
I closed the app, launched it again and the phone did not lock while watching YouTube.
Thanks!!!
Same bug here with Brave 1.75.181, Chromium 133.0.6943.141
I have rebooted the phone to no avail. It started dimming the screen right after 2 mins of video playing, the app wasn’t in the background.
I’ll install a pending system update and look if there is a Brave update.
Same issue for me on OnePlus 13 with OxygenOS 15 and Android 15. Screen turns off while watching a video that whatever the normal screen timeout I set in the phone is like 30 seconds or 1 minute or whatever. Other apps like edge or Chrome or of course YouTube app itself do not turn off the screen while playing video. In addition brave is also now not showing comments or the thumbs up thumbs down channel subscribe etc buttons below any
YouTube video.
Versions of my Brave and Android shown below
I had the same problem just now, however, opening in a new tab eliminated the problem. My screen is no longer going to sleep in the new tab
Nah. Once you leave and go back the issue starts all over again. Not solved. Brave. We got an issue and you are the only one who can fix it
The issue persists after updating to 1.76.75
Closing and reopening Brave will fix it temporarily, but as soon as it goes to background and then is foreground the bug will appear again.
I will return to Firefox because 80% of my usage is YouTube
Does enabling Experimental List in Settings/Privacy & security/Content filtering. Then reloading YT page.
It actually did fix the problem for me! At least for now. I’ll post if it comes back. Of course it hasn’t fixed the lesser problem of the channel information, like dislike buttons, comments not showing up on YouTube videos, but I can live with that.
Brave used to let me play videos in pop up screen when I used to press the home button. Now it just closes and plays only audio in the background. Anyone know how I can still watch the video while still using my phone to do other stuff?
Hi @steeven, brave used to let me still watch videos as a pop up when I used to press the home button on my phone. Now it only plays audio in the background. Any idea how I can still watch videos while using my phone to do other stuff
Does @fanboynz’s suggestion of enabling Experimental List in Settings/Privacy & security/Content filtering. Then reloading YT page.
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