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YouTube Rolling Out Picture-in-Picture Support on iOS for All U.S. Users, Premium Users Globally
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Same. This is a Siri household with no Google items at all. Even got rid of my Nest recently in favor of an ecobee and the quality difference is astounding…
How about the same way they expect us to stay afloat while consistently and constantly gouging us? Hmm??
In other words, the entire industry is rotten and needs to be reconfigured entirely.
Data has just been such a ******** way to turn a profit… where the hell is the human value? It all just seems to profit a couple of humans, and suck up all of our wealth…
Google are such liars. PIP was working just fine until they nerfed it for everyone except Premium users.
It’s amazing anyone owns Android.
It’s amazing anyone owns Android.
For some reason, I can't get it to work. I have PIP enabled on my iPhone 13 Pro. I'm not a YouTube premium user.
Yup! Seems like it! Wasn't this promised like less than a year ago and then it turned out it wasn't for regular YouTube videos but was for ... I can't even remember what it was for.
This time around, am I reading correctly that PIP is available to all YouTube users in the US?
How did you get this to work? I'm on an iPhone 13 Pro; PIP is enabled. I'm a regular YouTube user; not premium; and in the US.
All I get when I swipe up to get to the Home screen from YouTube app is the app just disappears (like any app normally would) and there's no PIP video content.
I'll need it! Can't figure out how to get this to work.
Oh, I’m sure little ol’ independent app developer Googlé will find a way to survive in this cold, hard world.
Poor little Googlé. Nobody ever looks out for you, do they?
Only a guess...you may have to enable PIP in Youtube. PIP in youtube might not be fully rolled out yet and there may not be an option to enable it yet.
Yeah, I don't see the PIP option in the YouTube app, in spite of YouTube's own directions say to enable it.
And to confirm: the native PIP option in the iPhone settings is already enabled.
You didn’t answer the question. Google isn’t a charity. How would you make YouTube profitable without any of the things OP mentioned? Or do you just want YouTube to be a free utopia with candy canes, unicorns and mountains of money for all the creators who make a living on the platform?
Why is premium required in other countries?
Assuming it’s due to a threat of class action lawsuit in the US…..
Assuming it’s due to a threat of class action lawsuit in the US…..
Far from it. Winking at you because I’m sure by now you realize the fault in your argument and are wishing me a good day because you know you lost.
Have a good day, indeed.
Don’t know why it cannot be a free feature outside the US. Very disappointed.
I'll try this with the US selected on my VPN.
Tried it from Japan with my VPN connected to the US. Swiping (as instructed in the OP) did not change the in-YouTube-app video (not music) to PiP but I got a message saying "Music cannot be played in PiP."
"To use picture-in-picture in the YouTube app, just select a video to watch and then exit out of YouTube by swiping upwards from the bottom of the screen."
How do you exit the YouTube app by swiping upwards from the bottom of the screen on the iPhone? I just bring up Control Centre, both when viewing the YouTube video in the app in portrait and landscape. Baffled.
Does not work. No PiP option unless you are a Premium User.
Apparently music is excluded from PiP, supposedly...
I am a premium youtube member and can't get PiP to work. anyone else in the same boat? what a botched rollout.
For those of us that have been paying for YouTube Premium since it was YouTube Red, now that this feature isn’t exclusive, is the monthly subscription price going to become cheaper? Dumb question.
I did the same and sort of panicked lol. What a great feature to take away or charge or for.