YouTube began officially rolling out the Picture-in-Picture feature in the iOS app last June, and it’s been a very slow process. A workaround has been provided to premium subscribers, but the YouTube PiP test for iPhone and iPad has already been completed.
The iOS Picture-in-Picture experiment (starting in August) has disappeared from youtube.com/new after an end date in early April. Google has notified people with a “Feature you are trying to disable” banner on the desktop site and mobile apps.
However, YouTube PiP still works for iPhone and iPad users who previously had the test enabled. It didn’t disappear on the one iPad we use PiP heavily on, and installing the YouTube app on a new iPhone and signing into a premium account turned it on.
However, premium users who have never tried the experiment do not have PiP today. YouTube has yet to roll out this feature widely after 10 months.
We hope to have a full launch soon as YouTube TV has just rolled out PiP widely for its iOS app. It was announced at the end of March and is fully available this week. This is perhaps much more necessary for a premium cord cutting product.
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Picture-in-Picture is a perk (i.e., background playback) for paid YouTube Premium users worldwide. In the US, PiP will be available to free, ad-supported users. Music content is excluded due to the likely sale through YouTube’s dedicated streaming service.
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