After a long testing period, YouTube will allow the picture-in-picture feature on iOS in the next few days, and it will be available to all users, including subscribers and others, so you will be able to close the YouTube application and continue watching the video anywhere on the iPhone in the form of a popup in a short period of time.
Google announced in June that the Picture in Picture feature would be rolling out to both paid and unpaid users in the US, but many people outside the country were able to turn it on, so the company could make it available globally.
Only YouTube Premium subscribers were able to access Picture-in-Picture on iOS as a "beta feature", and at one point this was interpreted to mean that it would remain only a premium feature, until Jules clarified that it would eventually come to all users in the country. .
Last Sunday, in a response on Twitter to a user who had issues accessing the beta feature, YouTube said the Picture-in-Picture feature will be available "in a few days" for devices running iOS 15 and later. She said in her tweet:
Are you using an iOS smartphone? If so, the Picture-in-Picture feature is still up and running and will be available within days across all iOS 15 and later devices.
For those who are not familiar with this feature, Picture-in-Picture allows watching videos while using other apps, and when watching a video, users can tap the Picture-in-Picture button to move the video to a smaller window that floats over the Home screen or other apps.
YouTube has extended the feature's testing period several times in an effort to improve the experience before the official launch, and it now appears that the company is almost ready to go live.
There was a bit of instability when the feature was initially rolled out to iOS devices, sometimes YouTube enabled and sometimes disabled, sometimes even working through Safari. Some users resorted to shortcuts to operate them. But with official support just around the corner, these workarounds will no longer be needed.
In a new update to the news, the YouTube team stated on Twitter, "Just to clarify - what's currently rolling out is Picture-in-Picture on YouTube TV for iOS 15 and later devices. And if you're referring to the YouTube app, it's only available to premium members on Android phones.
So it seems that the matter is still shrouded in mystery, will the feature be available to everyone or will YouTube dedicate it again to premium members only.
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Thanks for the great article 🌹
Thank you, Yvonne Islam, for your wonderful follow-up
I used it on safari, thanks to Yvonne Islam, for explaining it in a previous article
I've been using it for a while now, as an add-on to my Safari browser
As for the YouTube app, I do not use it because of its many annoying ads
Although I'm a YouTube Premium subscriber, the feature annoyed me and I turned it off because it's annoying and you can't play the clip in the background
Frankly, it was necessary from the beginning not to include it within the premium subscription because it is a feature that is not worth paying
The title is in one valley and the content is in another valley.
The thing that bothers me the most about the YouTube app in iOS is the lack of support for the Arabic translation feature, unlike the Android app. Any video can be translated, an intentional movement from Google can be an exclusive feature for Android
In general, I found the solution with another YouTube application called ztranslate, an excellent alternative to the YouTube application and supports Arabic subtitles for videos from all languages
God is very useful, this feature.
But it seems that YouTube is practicing contempt with its users
I have a program that works the same as YouTube and has a picture-in-picture feature, YouTube. We don't want anything from you. Thank you for your belated generosity 😂😂
Thank you, great news
Best news
Do you miss the feature and have ads 😩
or without ads
Good, very useful for me, and I hope it works because I use other alternative programs, for example pretub
Basically the feature for me I consider it a defect and its failure because I lose the most important advantage of running in the background and saving battery in travel lines I play long clips and only need sound
You won't support it except maybe with a premium subscription only I don't think they would be that generous