This weekend, YouTube eliminated the long-running experiment that allowed iPhone and iPad customers to maintain watching movies in picture-in-picture mode. Now, YouTube has confirmed that its iOS app is within the means of rolling out picture-in-picture assist to everybody on iOS 15 and up.
In another tweet late during night time from @TeamYouTube, the company formally confirmed that picture-in-picture assistant is now out on iOS devices by the official YouTube ios app. As per standard with new options from YouTube and Google alike, the rollout will take a “matter of days,” however YouTube says will probably be obtainable on all apple devices operating iOS 15 and up.
Replace: In a clarifying tweet, YouTube has clarified that picture-in-picture is not rolling out to YouTube on iOS, and that the earlier tweet was really in reference to YouTube TV. The rollout of PiP to YouTube TV was introduced virtually two weeks in the past, and has accomplished at this level. YouTube has since deleted the deceptive tweet.
Image-in-picture (PiP) assist has been part of iOS for fairly a while, however YouTube’s official app by no means supplied huge assist for the function, leaving many iPhone and iPad customers to resort to viewing movies by their internet browser.
YouTube for Android, in the meantime, has had assist for PiP because the launch of Android 8.0 Oreo in 2017. iOS didn’t add PiP assist till the discharge of iOS 14, which launched in 2020.
For over a 12 months now, YouTube has supplied a PiP “experiment” to Premium subscribers to permit them to allow assist for PiP on iOS, however the experiment, which formally ended over the weekend, was not enabled by default.
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