YouTube has rolled out picture-in-picture support for Apple users, but don’t get too excited. The new mode is limited to YouTube TV subscribers.
Are you tired of YouTube videos failing to appear in a small player on your iPhone or iPad while scrolling through other apps? That’s changing for some users, as YouTube is rolling out its picture-by-picture (PiP) feature for devices running iOS 15 and newer, the company announced on Twitter. The only caveat is that the picture-in-picture mode is exclusively for YouTube TV subscribers. However, Google has been testing the same functionality for YouTube Premium users since February, and the testing period for them ends on April 8, 2022, according to YouTube’s Labs page. Although it plans on expanding the feature to those without a Premium feature at some point, it hasn’t given a specific date as to when that will happen. In case you haven’t used the feature before on Android or you’re not well-versed in multitasking, picture-in-picture is triggered when you swipe up from the bottom of your screen to return to the home page while watching a YouTube video.
