diff --git a/app/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/player/Player.java b/app/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/player/Player.java
index 159ecbd6efc..e458b707e2d 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/player/Player.java
+++ b/app/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/player/Player.java
@@ -1752,6 +1752,13 @@ public void play() {
             }
         }
 
+        if (isStopped()) {
+            // Some phones suspend a paused player after 10 minutes. This causes the player to
+            // enter STATE_IDLE, causing playback to fail. So we try to recover from that here.
+            setRecovery();
+            reloadPlayQueueManager();
+        }
+
         simpleExoPlayer.play();
         saveStreamProgressState();
     }