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The Google Image in picture feature available for IOS

Picture-in-picture has been available for iPad users since iOS 9, and this year, Apple added it to iPhones with iOS 14. However, the YouTube app has never supported this feature before. But now that may be changing, as you learned that Google has started testing the picture-in-picture functionality in the YouTube iOS app.
According to Twitter posts, picture-in-picture is gradually being made available to some users of the latest version of YouTube for iOS. Some reports say that this feature only works with a few videos, which may indicate that Google is still working on a new feature. The online edition 9to5Mac managed to test the function. YouTube's Picture-in-Picture works like any other application. If you start watching the video and then close the application, the video will continue to play in a small window and the user can freely use all the features of the smartphone
(But it only worked with this live broadcast, there must be some codec tricks going on behind the scenes for certain playback scenarios).
 Unfortunately, picture-in-picture is only available to YouTube Premium subscribers. As a reminder, users of Apple devices running iOS 14, iPadOS 14 and tvOS 14 can now watch 4K HDR videos in the YouTube app. Google has not yet announced when the picture-in-picture feature will be available to all YouTube users.

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