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YouTube Says iOS Picture-in-Picture Coming to All Users 'in a Matter of Days' [Updated]
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Why isn’t this something Apple can require all video apps to support? Individual apps shouldn’t get to decide whether they support PiP or not.
Oh and can YouTube please get smarter about where ads are inserted. There’s nothing more annoying that watching a concert and right in the middle of a song an ad comes up. You’d think their algorithms would be smart enough to place the ads in the right spot.
Oh and can YouTube please get smarter about where ads are inserted. There’s nothing more annoying that watching a concert and right in the middle of a song an ad comes up. You’d think their algorithms would be smart enough to place the ads in the right spot.
I've just been using a Shortcut in Safari to give me PiP.
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Do you know of any Shortcuts for YouTube video downloads? All the ones I have don’t work so I have to go back to Firefox on my laptop to do it. Those extensions work but I don’t believe they’re available/possible for iOS.
Apple ought not allow core AVPlayer functionality to be paywall'd. Regardless of whether Youtube is essential or not, it is bad platform guardianship for Apple to not enforce better practices.
Of course, the problem here is that we essentially have tech industry "geopolitics" going on and Apple can't afford to treat Google like they would if I made a media streaming app that gated core OS functionality.
That being said, Youtube bringing this to all users was probably the result of discussions with Apple that we'll never know about barring another discovery session in the courts. Google got away with gating this under the auspicious "Experiment Feature" program for paying customers for over a year.
Of course, the problem here is that we essentially have tech industry "geopolitics" going on and Apple can't afford to treat Google like they would if I made a media streaming app that gated core OS functionality.
That being said, Youtube bringing this to all users was probably the result of discussions with Apple that we'll never know about barring another discovery session in the courts. Google got away with gating this under the auspicious "Experiment Feature" program for paying customers for over a year.
Sorry I don’t. All I use is the Brave browser on iOS. While watching any YouTube a button will appear in the URL bar for downloading. Then Brave saves it to a playlist where you can rearrange them, create folders etc.
This also allows playing music in the background, playing the video/audio while the phone is locked.
I'm saying, why doesn't apple make pip feature a standard feature of the os. Too busy with emojis.
It is a standard feature of AVPlayer. It simply requires engineering effort to wire up events for handling exit of an app and reentry into an app while PiP is engage. The rub comes when the existing video solution does not easily allow integration with what the standard player supports.
Adopting Picture in Picture in a Standard Player | Apple Developer Documentation
Add Picture in Picture (PiP) playback to your app using a player view controller.
Removing a feature of the OS and give it back to me if I pay was not cool.
So... you won't get my thanks for this, Google. Shame on you for not doing it before instead.
So... you won't get my thanks for this, Google. Shame on you for not doing it before instead.
It is a standard feature.
What Apple does is make exceptions for major players who break the rules. Holding PiP hostage behind a paywall is absolutely against the App Store TOS and Apple allows it because it is YouTube.
The YouTube app doesn’t use the standard iOS video player.
Not that That’s an excuse for Google, picture in pictures should’ve been implemented two years ago, but it should be noted
I really wish my content creators would just move off of this platform already. For premium subscribers I *almost* understand.....and then they go on and say it's Android only, despite it working fine on iOS. And the thing about my content that I watch, it's ONLY available on YouTube and it has pretty much become my TV Replacement. A lot of tutorials etc are only on YouTube. Ugh.
YouTube is essential in today’s age. It’s arguably better than some colleges at teaching people things. You can learn pretty much anything on there.