{"id":13697,"date":"2026-10-30T23:34:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T06:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geoffmobile.com\/blog\/samsung-4k-2026-tv-how-to-turn-off-the-display-but-keep-the-audio-playing"},"modified":"2026-10-30T23:36:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T06:36:31","slug":"samsung-4k-2026-tv-how-to-turn-off-the-display-but-keep-the-audio-playing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geoffmobile.com\/blog\/samsung-4k-2026-tv-how-to-turn-off-the-display-but-keep-the-audio-playing","title":{"rendered":"Samsung 4K 2026 TV &#8211; how to turn off the display but keep the audio playing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-container-outer\">\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe class=\"video-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uQjRkImuqQs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Samsung removed the Picture Off setting from its newer TVs, which made it hard to listen to music through the TV without the screen on. On our 2026 Samsung Crystal 4K TV, I found a workaround using an accessibility feature called Auto Picture Off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please subscribe :) <a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/geoffmobile\" class=\"autohyperlink\">youtube.com\/geoffmobile<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s a catch: the built-in YouTube app pauses when the screen turns off. But if you play YouTube through a Chromecast connected by HDMI, the audio keeps playing, including through a soundbar connected by eARC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To find Auto Picture Off, hold down the middle of the volume rocker button on your Samsung remote for about five seconds to open the accessibility menu. Remember to turn the &#8220;Auto Picture Off&#8221; setting off when you\u2019re done listening so the screen doesn\u2019t switch off later while you\u2019re watching something.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apologies in advance for the gerbils running on their wheel in the background.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">0:00 Intro<br \/>\n0:32 Why I wanted the screen off<br \/>\n1:21 Picture Off removed, Auto Picture Off added<br \/>\n2:01 Why the built-in YouTube app won\u2019t work<br \/>\n2:37 Use a Chromecast through HDMI instead<br \/>\n3:22 The solution<br \/>\n3:50 How to find Auto Picture Off<br \/>\n4:19 Wrapping up<br \/>\n4:42 Gerbil cam<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Full article \/ video transcript here: <a href=\"https:\/\/geoffmobile.com\/blog\/samsung-4k-2026-tv-how-to-turn-off-the-display-but-keep-the-audio-playing\">geoffmobile.com\/blog\/samsung-4k-2026-tv-how-to-turn-off-the-display-but-keep-the-audio-playing<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More tech tips at <a href=\"https:\/\/geoffmobile.com\" class=\"autohyperlink\">geoffmobile.com<\/a>. Don\u2019t forget to subscribe!<br \/>\nThanks for watching!<br \/>\nCheers,<br \/>\nGeoff<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/geoffmobile.com\" class=\"autohyperlink\">geoffmobile.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Video topics:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How to Turn Off the Screen on a 2026 Samsung TV and Keep the Audio Playing<br \/>\nSamsung TV Picture Off Is Gone: Use Auto Picture Off Instead<br \/>\nPlay Music on Your Samsung TV With the Screen Off (2026 Tizen Workaround)<br \/>\nSamsung Removed Picture Off. Here\u2019s the Workaround for Music Listening<br \/>\nListen to Music Through Your Samsung TV and Soundbar With the Display Off<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uQjRkImuqQs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/uQjRkImuqQs\/maxresdefault.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.7777777777777777;width:128px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Transcript:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hi everyone on YouTube. This is Geoff from <a href=\"http:\/\/geoffmobile.com\" class=\"autohyperlink\">geoffmobile.com<\/a>. Behind me you can see our Samsung TV, and I wanted to share something I figured out about this TV. Sorry, our gerbil is just spinning in the wheel there. Anyways, hopefully you can still hear me. So, while the gerbil runs on its wheel, let me talk to you about the Samsung TV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Why I Wanted to Turn Off the Screen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a Samsung 4K TV that just came out this year, in 2026. Our old Samsung TV had a feature where you could go into the eco settings and turn off the display. This was very helpful when listening to music, when I didn\u2019t want to show the picture and just wanted to hear the music. You can see we have a soundbar connected to the TV, so it has very good sound. What I wanted to do was have the TV play the audio of the music but not show anything on the screen. (And the gerbil\u2019s going again there.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Picture Off Is Gone, but Auto Picture Off Works<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyways, the newer Samsung TVs removed the feature to turn off the screen while the audio continues to play. They used to have a setting called Picture Off, and that setting was removed in the latest version of the Tizen OS, which is used by these 2026 Crystal 4K TVs by Samsung. But they replaced it with an accessibility feature called Auto Picture Off, and I found out that you can use the Auto Picture Off setting to, in effect, turn off the display while listening to music through the TV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Why the Built-In YouTube App Won\u2019t Work<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, there are a few tricks. If you\u2019re trying to play music through the YouTube app on the Samsung TV itself (the smart TV app, where you go to the menu, choose the YouTube app, and it runs YouTube on the TV), that\u2019s not going to work with Auto Picture Off. When you turn on Auto Picture Off and the picture turns off, it also pauses any applications playing on the TV. So if you\u2019re watching a YouTube video through the YouTube app on the TV, it\u2019s going to stop the audio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Use a Chromecast Through HDMI Instead<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But if you connect a Chromecast to the TV and play YouTube through the Chromecast, that\u2019s coming in through HDMI, and the Auto Picture Off setting does allow audio sources playing through HDMI to keep playing while the screen is off. So the screen looks off, but the audio from the HDMI input is still playing on your TV. We have our soundbar connected through eARC on one of the HDMI ports, and even when the screen is off using Auto Picture Off, the audio continues to play through the soundbar as long as I\u2019m playing it through the Chromecast connected to the TV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Solution<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, the solution: if you want to play music on your Samsung TV through your soundbar and turn off the display, you can choose the Auto Picture Off setting. You may have to toggle it on and off to get the display to turn off initially. Then, once you\u2019re finished listening to music, go back into the accessibility settings and turn off Auto Picture Off so the screen doesn\u2019t randomly turn off while you\u2019re watching something later in the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>How to Find the Auto Picture Off Setting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you\u2019re curious how to access the Auto Picture Off setting, it\u2019s in the accessibility settings. On your Samsung remote, hold down the volume rocker for about five seconds and it will bring up the accessibility menu. Then select Auto Picture Off and turn it on. That will turn off the display but still allow the audio to play if it\u2019s coming through an HDMI input on the back of your TV, such as from a Chromecast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Wrapping Up<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyways, that\u2019s my tech tip for today. I hope you enjoy playing music through your Samsung TV, even the newer ones where they got rid of the Picture Off setting and replaced it with Auto Picture Off. This seems to work as long as you use an HDMI input, such as from a Chromecast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks for watching, and I hope the gerbils weren\u2019t too annoying. I\u2019ll give you a quick view of the cage, and you can see they really enjoy running in their wheel. Have a great day, don\u2019t forget to subscribe, and I\u2019ll talk to you soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/geoffmobile.com\/blog\/samsung-4k-2026-tv-how-to-turn-off-the-display-but-keep-the-audio-playing\" class=\"clickable-excerpt-wrapper\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px solid #000000\" width=\"120\" height=\"90\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/uQjRkImuqQs\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Samsung 4K 2026 TV &#8211; how to turn off the display but keep the audio playing\"><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hide_page_title":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1085,113,429,33,1867,62,3,34,5,8311,11961],"tags":[12720,12719,12718,12704,8901,8902,12711,12721,12713,8913,12723,769,8191,12715,12717,12709,12706,12722,12712,12701,12707,12705,12703,12702,12714,12716,12708,12710,8899,635,12724],"class_list":["post-13697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ideas","category-videos","category-marketing","category-media","category-movie-reviews-and-more","category-music","category-people","category-technology","category-vancouver","category-vlogs-2","category-writing","tag-12720","tag-2026-samsung","tag-4k-samsung-tv","tag-auto-picture-off","tag-bc","tag-canada","tag-chromecast-samsung-tv","tag-crystal-tv","tag-earc-soundbar","tag-geoffmobile","tag-hdmi","tag-how-to","tag-input","tag-listen-to-music-on-tv","tag-mute-the-display","tag-samsung-accessibility-settings","tag-samsung-crystal-4k","tag-samsung-crystal-tv","tag-samsung-soundbar","tag-samsung-tv","tag-samsung-tv-2026","tag-samsung-tv-music-only","tag-samsung-tv-picture-off","tag-samsung-tv-screen-off","tag-samsung-tv-tips","tag-sound-bar","tag-tizen-os","tag-turn-off-tv-screen-keep-audio","tag-vancouver","tag-youtube","tag-youtube-music"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Samsung 4K 2026 TV - how to turn off the display but keep the audio playing - geoffmobile<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/geoffmobile.com\/blog\/samsung-4k-2026-tv-how-to-turn-off-the-display-but-keep-the-audio-playing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Samsung 4K 2026 TV - how to turn off the display but keep the audio playing - geoffmobile\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Samsung 4K 2026 TV - how to turn off the display but keep the audio playing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/geoffmobile.com\/blog\/samsung-4k-2026-tv-how-to-turn-off-the-display-but-keep-the-audio-playing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"geoffmobile\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/geoffmobile\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-10-31T06:34:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-10-31T06:36:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/geoffmobile.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/maxresdefault-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Geoff Peters\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@geoffmobile\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@geoffmobile\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Geoff Peters\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/geoffmobile.com\\\/blog\\\/samsung-4k-2026-tv-how-to-turn-off-the-display-but-keep-the-audio-playing#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/geoffmobile.com\\\/blog\\\/samsung-4k-2026-tv-how-to-turn-off-the-display-but-keep-the-audio-playing\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Geoff Peters\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/geoffmobile.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/79b221010e8e488b2b61aa9080453147\"},\"headline\":\"Samsung 4K 2026 TV &#8211; 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