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iOS devices have been supporting picture-in-picture capability for some time now, but it has yet to become available through the YouTube app. The good news is Google has started testing the feature on iPhones, but there is a catch.
Google has added picture-in-picture in Android 8.0 in 2017. Apple, on the other hand, did not introduce the functionality to iOS users until 2020 as part of the iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 updates. It is then not completely surprising that the iOS version of the YouTube app is only getting this feature now.
However, picture-in-picture is not yet a publicly available feature for YouTube users on iPhones. It is currently offered as an experimental feature, which makes it exclusive to YouTube Premium subscribers only. iPhone users with YouTube Premium membership can open the link youtube.com/new on a web browser. The page will show them all the features currently in testing, a brief description of how they work, and until when they will be available for testing.
Scroll down the page and look for “Picture-in-picture on iOS.” Click on the “Try it out” button below the feature description. After joining the test, YouTube Premium users can open the YouTube app on their iOS device, play a video, and swipe up to return to the home screen. With the feature in testing, the app will close but the video will continue playing in a mini player.
Once YouTube Premium users opted in to test picture-in-picture on iOS, the page will display the “Turn Off” and “Feedback” buttons. The latter will redirect users to a questionnaire so Google can gather comments and suggestions about the feature before it fully launches to the public.
The “Turn Off” button lets YouTube Premium users easily opt-out of the experiment. Note that Google allows users to try one feature at a time only. Currently, the company is also testing a “Translate comments” functionality in several territories until early September. And if users would rather try that capability, the “Turn Off” button would come in handy.
YouTube’s picture-in-picture on iOS will be tested until Sunday, Oct. 31 in some regions. YouTube Premium costs $11.99 per month and offers ad-free videos, background play, video downloads for offline viewing, access to YouTube Original content, and YouTube Music Premium.
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