Google is set to return the PiP YouTube video player to Google Messages which it introduced in 2022 and removed in 2024.
Last August Google removed a feature from the Google Messages app that allowed users to receive a link during a Google Messages chat. Tapping on the link opens a small video player allowing the recipient of the link to view a YouTube video while still engrossed in a text conversation with the person who sent the YouTube link in the first place. Other members of a group chat could also tap the link to watch the video.
This feature would allow you to view a YouTube video that someone wanted you to see and then reply with your thoughts on it without having to leave the Messages app, go to YouTube, view the app, and return to Messages. At the time, Google said that the feature ended «the hassle of switching back and forth.
