As promised in February, YouTube TV is rolling out picture-in-picture (PiP) to its iPhone and iPad app. It comes as the primary YouTube for iOS consumer continues to be solely previewing an similar functionality.
YouTube TV tweeted in the present day that picture-in-picture is “now rolling out” to telephones and tablets working iOS 15:
Merely choose a video to observe and swipe ⬆️ from the underside of the display to return to the system’s homepage. The video can scale down and transfer throughout your display.
That stated, PiP just isn’t but broadly accessible on iPhone and iPad gadgets we checked working model 6.07 (from February 23) of YouTube TV this afternoon, and it appears to be like to be coming by way of a server-side replace.
This “key characteristic” has taken a surprisingly very long time to reach, with Google in the present day acknowledging folks’s endurance. Even in the primary YouTube consumer, PiP is barely accessible for YouTube Premium subscribers that manually allow an experiment. That stated, the first video app has the good thing about background audio and persevering with playback if you’re out. YouTube TV would simply cease upon customers closing the applying. PiP is a much-needed characteristic for any trendy streaming consumer, particularly to make sure a superb pill expertise.
In the present day’s characteristic replace follows one other one earlier this week about increasing encompass sound assist. YouTube TV continues to be engaged on the Apple TV, however 5.1 audio is coming subsequent to Android/Google TV gadgets and Roku.
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