YouTube TV for iPhone rolling out picture-in-picture (PiP)

As promised in February, YouTube TV is rolling out picture-in-picture (PiP) to its iPhone and iPad app. It comes as the primary YouTube for iOS shopper continues to be solely previewing an an identical functionality.

YouTube TV tweeted right this moment that picture-in-picture is “now rolling out” to telephones and tablets operating iOS 15:

Merely choose a video to observe and swipe ⬆️ from the underside of the display screen to return to the machine’s homepage. The video can scale down and transfer throughout your display screen.

That mentioned, PiP shouldn’t be but broadly accessible on iPhone and iPad units we checked operating model 6.07 (from February 23) of YouTube TV this afternoon, and it seems to be coming through a server-side replace.

This “key function” has taken a surprisingly very long time to reach, with Google right this moment acknowledging folks’s persistence. Even in the primary YouTube shopper, PiP is just accessible for YouTube Premium subscribers that manually allow an experiment. That mentioned, the first video app has the advantage of background audio and persevering with playback whenever you’re out. YouTube TV would simply cease upon customers closing the appliance. PiP is a much-needed function for any fashionable streaming shopper, particularly to make sure a superb pill expertise.

At this time’s function replace follows one other one earlier this week about increasing encompass sound assist. YouTube TV continues to be engaged on the Apple TV, however 5.1 audio is coming subsequent to Android/Google TV units and Roku.