Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

YouTube Says iOS Picture-in-Picture Coming to All Users 'in a Matter of Days' [Updated]

Saturnine said:
I wonder if the delay in putting this feature out is due to ads.

It’s never been an issue for Premium subscribers since they don’t see ads, but I’m unsure if Apple’s API allowed videos played in PiP to change source on the fly, e.g. from the video stream to the ad stream and back.

I wonder if it’s something they’ve had to work with Apple on.

Assuming ads will still play in PiP it will get slightly annoying to have to open the video in full, press Skip, and go back to PiP, especially when hit with a long ad. But I’m sure YouTube won’t mind promoting Premium as the solution to that particular problem.
Click to expand...
Not a problem. Been using YT with PiP in Safari and ads play fine.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Tech for Kings
ghostface147 said:
I never use their app. So I’ll never see PiP.
Click to expand...
Check out Vinegar.

apps.apple.com

‎Vinegar - Tube Cleaner

‎Vinegar is a Safari extension that replaces the YouTube player with a minimal HTML video tag. It removes ads, restores picture-in-picture, and keeps videos playing in the background. Note: The "can read information from webpages" text in the permission section is just unfortunate wording...
apps.apple.com
 
You
OS X Dude said:
I had a three-month YouTube Premium trial via an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate 'perk' and I loved it. I was prepared to sign-up after the trial, but the cost is prohibitive since I already have One for Music, etc. All I want is no ads and the ability to play with the screen turned off while I'm cleaning the bathroom or something, but it seems like there's no lower tier that allows this. I know 'Premium Lite' was trialled somewhere in Europe but it's not available in the UK.

Give me that at £5.99-7.99/month and I'd jump at it. I use YouTube quite a lot, and while I ad-block on desktop I can't do that via the TV or iOS app without modding my router or buying a Raspberry Pi and maintaining/running it which I'm not interested in doing.
Click to expand...
I don’t know how it works on Apple TV, but on iOS, just use YouTube in safari with an Adblock and the PiP shortcut. It works basically like YouTube Premium would, PiP, background sound (even with the screen locked) and no ads. Scrw the app anyway.
 
  • Like
Reactions: lifeinhd
Jeven Stobs said:
YouTube is essentially the video monopoly of the western world, the go-to standart. If you make videos (not movies of special content for/on TikTok and the like) and don’t post them on YouTube you’re done for. No one’s really gonna care.
It is essential in many ways, just fancy features aren’t.
Click to expand...
Being a monopoly doesn't make it essential. If YT were to go away tomorrow, I wouldn't miss Linus or iJustine one little bit. I guess those that make their living posting useless videos find it essential, though -- they'd have to get real jobs. ;)
 
Last edited:
dmylrea said:
Being a monopoly doesn't make it essential. If YT were to go away tomorrow, I wouldn't miss Linus or iJustine one little bit. I guess those that make their living posting useless videos find it essential, though -- they'd have to get real jobs. ;)

Out of curiosity, I checked and don't see PiP in my YT. I'm Premium (from YT Music) in the US, and no PiP icon in videos. Guess I never missed it.
Click to expand...

Claiming others don't have real jobs is just stupid. And what does it matter if you don't care if YouTube goes away or not? YouTube is massive and will certainly be missed by a ton of people if it went away.

I'm no fan of Instagram, I don't use any social media. But it's not like I pretend like it doesn't have a ton of users and is valuable to a lot of people in the world just because I don't use it myself.
 
  • Like
Reactions: agoodpub and slicecom
The jolliest bunch of assholes this side of the nuthouse ...
 
Y
lysingur said:
PiP is one of those FaaS (feature as a service) that people actually subscribe to YouTube Premium for. And it will no longer have any attraction whatsoever if this rumour becomes a reality.
Click to expand...
Youtube wouldn’t do this if their plan to use PiP as a catch had worked as aspected.
 
  • Like
Reactions: GuruZac
RamGuy said:
Claiming others don't have real jobs is just stupid. And what does it matter if you don't care if YouTube goes away or not? YouTube is massive and will certainly be missed by a ton of people if it went away.

I'm no fan of Instagram, I don't use any social media. But it's not like I pretend like it doesn't have a ton of users and is valuable to a lot of people in the world just because I don't use it myself.
Click to expand...
It's my opinion. Maybe not yours or others, just saying if YT ended tomorrow, the world wouldn't end. It might actually become more productive with people finding they have extra hours (many) to do something.
 
RamGuy said:
Paying for YouTube Premium won't help them much, but at least it's something instead of nothing.
Click to expand...
While that’s true, from the revenue breakdowns I’ve seen so far the per view revenue from premium is magnitudes more than what creators get from ads.
 
  • Like
Reactions: slicecom
I didn't know it was a YouTube premium feature only. I thought Google just held back this feature on Apple devices on purpose. As long as Google keeps the ability to play videos with the screen locked only to YouTube premium users then I'm fine. I have the Apple Music trial after buying AirPod Max and currently use it to compare to YouTube premium but I see no reason to jump from YouTube premium.
 
  • Disagree
Reactions: Tech for Kings
I actually started paying for Youtube Premium around the holidays and it's pretty nice. PIP is cool, but it's really just the ability to play the video in the background that's the big features. And the lack of ads. I don't know if I'll keep paying however if they don't add any additional features for payers.
 
I'm sure it's not charity on Google's part. I think they finally realized they can earn more ad revenue by letting users do "distracted viewing" of videos, ie partially paying attention like only listening to the video while browsing the web instead of watching with 100% attention. Of course that's not great for advertisers paying for ad placement.
 
Great, now i'll have to jump back into the app every time I want to skip one of their incredibly loud and annoying adds that pop up every time someone is about to say something (we interrupt your comment for something completely irrelevant and idiotic) important.
 
Download “Stadium Full Screen Browser” (red app icon) … on the install screen enter in: “https://m.youtube.com/“ as the Primary URL. As User Agent String set the following “Mozilla/5.0 (Android 4.4; Mobile; rv:41.0) Gecko/41.0 Firefox/41.0”. Then enable the “Require Full Screen Video” setting.

Now you can use that app to watch any YouTube video and it will play in PiP.
 
reyesmac said:
Great, now i'll have to jump back into the app every time I want to skip one of their incredibly loud and annoying adds that pop up every time someone is about to say something (we interrupt your comment for something completely irrelevant and idiotic) important.
Click to expand...

If you use Brave browser, it blocks YouTube ads automatically from playing before videos. It also lets you download videos seamlessly to their Brave playlist feature.
 
"PiP is one of those FaaS (feature as a service) that people actually subscribe to YouTube Premium for. And it will no longer have any attraction whatsoever if this rumour becomes a reality."

I subscribed for ad-free viewing, background playback and offline downloads.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back