3 Easy Ways to Loop YouTube Videos on Repeat

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Watch YouTube videos on repeat with this quick guide

Written by Nicole Levine, MFA

Last Updated: December 20, 2024 Fact Checked

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Ever want to watch a YouTube video on repeat? With YouTube's built-in Loop function, you can watch the same video endlessly. It will continue looping until you turn it off or close the video. If you just want to loop part of a YouTube video, you can use a free website called LoopTube. This wikiHow will show you how to loop YouTube videos using your iPhone, iPad, Android, or computer.

Quick Steps

Open the YouTube app.
Navigate to a video.
Tap the cog icon.
Tap Additional settings.
Tap Loop video.

Method 1

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Using the Mobile App

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Open the YouTube app. It has an icon that resembles a red rectangle with a white 'play' triangle in the middle.
- YouTube is available for iOS in the App Store and for Android in the Google Play Store.
- You cannot loop just a segment of the video using this method. To loop just part of a video, jump to Looping Part of a Video.
Tap the magnifying glass in the top-right corner and enter keywords to search YouTube. Tap a video to open its watch screen.

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Tap Loop video. The switch will turn on.
- You can also loop a playlist. Just navigate to a playlist, and then tap the two arrows icon in the control box.

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Using a Computer

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Go to https://www.youtube.com in your browser. This will open the YouTube homepage.
- You don't need to log in unless you want to view content that's restricted to 18-and-over accounts. If you do need to log in, click Sign in in the upper-right corner of the page, then enter your email address and password.
- You cannot loop just a segment of the video using this method. To loop just part of a video, jump to Looping Part of a Video.
Enter keywords in the top field to search YouTube. Click a video to open it.
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Right-click inside the video. This will open a drop-down menu.
- If you're using a Mac, you'll need to control-click.
- Make sure that you do this on the video itself and not an ad.
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Click Loop. It's at the top of the drop-down menu. You'll see a checkmark appear next to the Loop option before the drop-down menu disappears.
- The video will repeat continuously until you close the video or turn looping off.
- To turn looping off, right-click the center of the video playback and click Loop again.

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Looping Part of a Video

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Go to https://looptube.io in a web browser. If you just want to loop a segment of a YouTube video instead of the entire video, you can use LoopTube, a free web-based tool. This will work on any device, including your phone or tablet.
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Open the YouTube video in LoopTube. To do this, you'll need the URL of the YouTube video you want to loop. Here's what to do:
- To get the URL, open the video on YouTube (either in your web browser or in the YouTube mobile app), click or tap Share below the video, then select Copy or Copy Link.
- To paste it into LoopTube, delete the example URL from the field. Right-click, control-click, or long-press the box and select Paste.
Below the video, you'll see a pink slider. Drag the boxes on the left and right sides of the slider to select only the part of the YouTube video you want to loop.
The selected part of the video will now play over and over again until you stop the video or navigate away from LoopTube.

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What does it mean to loop a video?

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It means having the video play over and over automatically.

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How do I stop the repetition of videos on YouTube without browser extensions?

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if you are using youtube on a desktop then right click where the video will play and a drop down list would appear. In the list, you would see an option "loop" with a tick mark by it. Click on it and it would toggle to "loop off" as the tick mark goes away.

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Reload the page. If it still does not work, then check your wireless connection and make sure it is working. If you think it is something else, then contact YouTube headquarters.

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Avoid paid apps that claim to loop videos for you. There are several such apps that appear to be professionally made but cannot play, let alone loop YouTube videos.

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