Picture in Picture broken?

[Exxon87]

Hi there,

my Picture in Picture mode doesn’t work anymore since ios26 on my iPad Pro. My wife has the same problem on her iPad Air.
Of course PiP is enabled.

Netflix, Disney+ or Prime - when I watch a movie in full screen, then I swipe from the bottom upwards to open the Home Screen it just stops.
Any solution to fix this? A restart also didn’t help

 

[RLRabb]

Did you try the PiP icon on the screen? Do those apps have a PiP icon? It works for me in the Music app, going from full screen to a PiP window using the PiP icon in the upper left.

 

[Exxon87]

I found the problem
Settings ->Multitasking and Gestures

When I select Full-Screen Apps, PiP doesn’t work although it’s turned on at the very bottom of that screen

When I select Windowed Apps, it also doesn’t work. But when I enable “close all windows after swiping home” it works.

When I select stage manager, it works.

That has to be a bug, right?

 

[RLRabb]

Also, Apple's support document for entering PiP mode on an iPad with iOS 26 says you enter that mode by hitting the PiP icon, OR, if you have an iPad with a physical Home button, you can press the Home button. Nothing about other gestures to go from full screen to PiP mode.

 

[Exxon87]

Also, Apple's support document for entering PiP mode on an iPad with iOS 26 says you enter that mode by hitting the PiP icon, OR, if you have an iPad with a physical Home button, you can press the Home button. Nothing about other gestures to go from full screen to PiP mode.

Not true

Go to settings -> multitasking and gestures and just read what it says underneath PiP at the bottom
“When you swipe up to go home or other apps, videos will automatically continue in PiP”

 

[RLRabb]

I was just relaying what the support document says. Sounds like they need to coordinate better.

 

[RLRabb]

When I tried the gesture-based entry into PiP mode from full screen in the Music app, I have to flick down on the bottom of the screen, not up. Plus, it has to it has to be with only 1 finger in the middle of the screen, where the home bar is. I have Stage Manager enabled, as I always do.

 

[RLRabb]

I played around a bit more with this. The actual gesture required depends on whether you are using your finger or a trackpad, and with a trackpad, I was needing to use a different gesture depending on whether I was using a bluetooth trackpad directly with the iPad or whether a was using a Bluetooth trackpad while using Universal Control from my Mac.
And again, this was working with Stage Manager, but I didn't try with other windowing modes.