YouTube will offer a picture-in-picture support feature for its iOS users that will allow users to watch videos while doing other things on their iPhones and iPads.
A YouTube spokesperson told The Verge that the feature is currently rolled out to premium subscribers and that a launch for all iOS users (including free ones) in the US is in the works.
Apple added support for picture-in-picture video for iPads running iOS 9 and brought it to iPhones running iOS 14.
Since then, YouTube has had poor support for the feature on iPhones and iPads – it works for the iPad if you’re using Safari (although some have reported that it doesn’t work for non-premium subscribers); iPhone users could only access the feature periodically.
At least for the US, this complication seems to be disappearing: iOS users, with or without a YouTube Premium subscription, will soon be able to access it like Android users via the YouTube app.
YouTube did not provide a timeline for rolling out the feature for free users, but did indicate that the roll-out for premium subscribers is underway.
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