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YouTube Still Testing Picture-in-Picture on iOS With Premium Subscribers [Updated]
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The team at YouTube trying their hardest to come up with the worst business decisions every year
they don't disappoint
they don't disappoint
I had YT Red for four years until Jan 18 and the things I've missed most are ad-free viewing and background play. The lack of background play by default is absurd. I can understand ads, pay for the content you enjoy... but I'd pay for YT again if they had the ability to disable video for background audio use only, like a podcast while I'm working.
Taking a look at vinegar after other reading other comments...
Taking a look at vinegar after other reading other comments...
I have had YouTube Premium since the membership was first available (because I absolutely had Ads) and I have never been able to get it to work on my iPad Pro. New iPad and re-installing the application has not made it work. This is very frustrating.
I submitted a feedback ticket on this. Unfortunately, they don’t respond the way Apple does, but I experienced the same thing.
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You are not a YouTube premium subscriber either. How do you do it? Tell us your secret.
It's so funny to notice there are ways around it and YouTube is over here still testing it, LOL!
Apple's already done the testing a few years back, the SDK was written by them.
Don't know what the hell Google's testing here...
Lol I use 1Blocker with the extension that blocks YT ads in Safari plus I get PiP. Google can go stick it. Last I remember, didn’t Apple say that Google can’t charge for core iOS features?
How to get you to pay for it while convincing you it’s the only logical option and they’re doing you a favor.
They shouldn't be ALLOWED to gate it. PiP is a Video Player feature, built into the OS. It should not be optional to any app that has a single video player UI.
Listen, if the roles were reversed, I imagine Apple would do something similar. But in this situation, this is a particularly dumb reasoning for delaying it because the PiP feature worked perfectly fine when PiP was released on iOS. It worked for like a week or something before Google took away the ability to use it. So to say it still needs testing is ****ing absurd.
Why would YouTube pull this feature from iOS?? I use it every day. That would be so freaking annoying if it just stopped working after the next update. *facepalm*
Where is it? I couldn't find anything online any articles that mention a feature toggle. Only that "reinstalling the App can help"
Edit: I looked everywhere on two iPads and I am not seeing any setting for this. Background play yes, PIP no.
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As a paying user I use it seldom, but if it were not available anymore I will get very angry for those times I want to use it!.
I don’t pay Disney, but I pay YouTube for MY time (no ads, no interruptions, it is WHOLE different experience). And I am worth it. I watch it more than HBO max.
I don’t pay Disney, but I pay YouTube for MY time (no ads, no interruptions, it is WHOLE different experience). And I am worth it. I watch it more than HBO max.
I don’t understand they had it when pip launched, then disabled the feature. What’s there to test? Ads still run with that’s what they’re worried about. And honestly I’ve used YouTube less because I’m stuck on the app, and can’t use pip.