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The way forward for picture-in-picture assist for YouTube on the iPhone is unclear.
As noticed by MacRumors, YouTube has prolonged assist for the experimental function till February 14. YouTube Premium subscribers can nonetheless take pleasure in utilizing picture-in-picture with the YouTube app on the iPhone and iPad till that date.
YouTube initially launched picture-in-picture as an experimental function for iOS again in August of 2021. Up till now, the function has solely been out there to YouTube Premium subscribers. Free customers haven’t had entry to the function but regardless of a ton of different apps already supporting picture-in-picture formally like Apple TV, Hulu, Twitch, and extra.
The corporate promised in July of 2021 that, whereas the function could be solely out there to Premium subscribers as an experimental function first, it will ultimately come to all customers.
Image-in-Image (PiP) permits customers to look at YouTube movies in a small mini participant whereas concurrently searching exterior of the YouTube app on their cell machine. We’re beginning to roll out PiP for YouTube Premium members on iOS and plan to launch PiP for all US iOS customers as nicely.
In an announcement right now, Google says that it nonetheless does plan to launch picture-in-picture assist for all customers however didn’t decide to a launch date.
We’re nonetheless planning to launch PiP for all customers and not using a YouTube Premium subscription within the US. We’ve no different updates to share at the moment. Within the meantime, we have additionally prolonged our experiment of PiP on youtube.com/new for our Premium customers on iOS as we proceed to check and enhance the expertise earlier than launch.
Apple initially introduced assist for picture-in-picture on the iPhone and iPad when it revealed iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 again at WWDC in 2020.
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