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iOS 14 Picture in Picture No Longer Working With YouTube's Mobile Website in Safari [Without Premium]
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I've never understood PIP. I mean, sure, on a dual or triple monitor desktop system I sometimes put an instruction video off to the side while I'm working on something. But that's easy to do and makes sense, just drag a window.
A phone screen is TINY. Even the biggest ones are less than 7". There's just not enough room to do that. And where I'm sitting right now in my bedroom there are seven screens within sight, it's easier and better to just play something on another screen.
A phone screen is TINY. Even the biggest ones are less than 7". There's just not enough room to do that. And where I'm sitting right now in my bedroom there are seven screens within sight, it's easier and better to just play something on another screen.
It was working fine on mobile website. The point is they didn’t add it they deliberately removed it. The app is garbage.
I like it for podcasts that broadcast on Youtube also. You can run the video off screen while doing other things. Or run a quick search about something you’re watching. Example: baseball game and curious about a stat.
The video might be embedded
Uf you play any video on the YouTube website it doesn’t work. If you use desktop mode on any browser Firefox, safari or DuckDuckGo it doesn’t work either.
it works if the video is embedded or if you search in the DuckDuckGo app.
??? Weird they all play in full screen on my phone and iPad. I used a lot of browsers too but mainly safari.
If you are in the iPad go to desktop mode.
Safari is the best imo I don’t like the YouTube app at all, plus I block all the YT ads.
This really makes me sad. I only got to enjoy it one day. I sit in my car for up to an hour before work browsing the web on my phone and being able to stream music from youtube to my car via bluetooth with the video hidden in the background while continuing to browse the web really put a smile on my face. Every day I am surprised to find a new way that society has chosen to make itself slightly more sad.
I'm not sure if it's been mentioned already, but this process seems to work for airplay to an Apple TV and exiting the YouTube app or letting your phone lock (it's still flaky, but it's better than nothing):
1. Start playing the video in the YouTube app
2. Swipe up from the bottom of the screen to go home (most of the time you won't get PiP, though I've seen it sometimes...)
3. Lock your phone
4. At the lock screen, you should see a standard window that shows what content is paused, with the option to airplay. Tap on that icon, and choose your device to airplay to
I should also note I'm on YouTube Premium ($12/mo). As someone pointed out to me here, that tier allows background play of music only per se, but the above approach seems to work.
1. Start playing the video in the YouTube app
2. Swipe up from the bottom of the screen to go home (most of the time you won't get PiP, though I've seen it sometimes...)
3. Lock your phone
4. At the lock screen, you should see a standard window that shows what content is paused, with the option to airplay. Tap on that icon, and choose your device to airplay to
I should also note I'm on YouTube Premium ($12/mo). As someone pointed out to me here, that tier allows background play of music only per se, but the above approach seems to work.
Unfortunate. The decision seems like it is not based on technology but $$$.
If you go to Share > Embed, and play the preview video that pops up it’ll go into Picture in Picture.
This works ( lets see how long, hope longer than request desktop)
THANKS a lot to macrumours and the programmers!
also interesting tecnically for someone like me who sadly cant program
iOS 14: Picture in Picture Not Working in YouTube? Here's a Workaround
In iOS 14, Apple added a Picture in Picture mode on iPhone that lets you watch a video in a small screen on your device while you continue to do...
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Yup been using it. I didn’t like the other shortcut where you had to use the YouTube app.This works ( lets see how long, hope longer than request desktop)
THANKS a lot to macrumours and the programmers!
also interesting tecnically for someone like me who sadly cant program
iOS 14: Picture in Picture Not Working in YouTube? Here's a Workaround
In iOS 14, Apple added a Picture in Picture mode on iPhone that lets you watch a video in a small screen on your device while you continue to do...
been using this and the bug that u tap on pip and turn the iPhone off.
I use the last one when I just want to listen to a podcast or the audio only.☺👍
This works! 
routinehub.co
RoutineHub - YouTube PiP
Bring any YouTube video into PiP directly from YouTube app or Safari
routinehub.co
