YouTube Website’s Picture-in-Picture Works Again On iOS 14

YouTube’s web site now helps iOS 14’s picture-in-picture mode as soon as again, after the performance mysteriously disappeared final month. It might be enabled in each Safari in addition to third-party browsers like Chrome or Firefox by increasing a video to play fullscreen, after which tapping the small picture-in-picture icon on the top-left of the interface. 

Then you’re free to attenuate the browser and use different apps whereas the persevering with to observe a video. You may slide the PiP window to the facet should you simply wish to hear music with out the video obstructing the show.

OS-level picture-in-picture help was added as a new feature in iOS 14, however shortly afterwards stopped working on YouTube’s web site for iPhone customers. It continued to work for customers who subscribe to YouTube Premium, maybe unsurprisingly. It additionally works for iPad customers.

While picture-in-picture now works in browsers, it’s not accessible within the YouTube app itself, the place MacRumors notes the characteristic has by no means been supported. 

Playing movies within the background is attainable by way of the YouTube app, however solely if in case you have a YouTube Premium subscription. 9to5Mac reports that the service lately examined a picture-in-picture mode in its iOS app, however no official bulletins have been made.

October 02, 2020