How to activate YouTube Picture-In-Picture (PiP) on iPhone right now

Picture-In-Picture mode is very convenient for continuing to watch a video on YouTube using other applications. Here’s how to use it on iPhone right now.

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If you have subscribed to YouTube Premium, you will no longer see ads on Youtube which is already very appreciable, but in addition you have access to certain functions in advance. This is the case of Picture-In-Picture during its test phase on iPhone which officially started in June.

As the name suggests, Picture-In-Picture, or PiP, allows you to keep the image and sound of a YouTube video in a small frame on the screen, while you are using another application. Useful if you want to keep track of a show, but chat with friends on Discord or even pull your thread up on Twitter at the same time.

On iPhone, it is now much easier to participate in the test.

How to test Picture-in-Picture on iPhone

The feature has been around for a long time on Android, but it’s taking a long time to get to iPhone. By participating in a test, it becomes easy to activate it on the Apple smartphone.

• Meeting on the YouTube.com/new page (you have to be YouTube Premium);
• Search for “Picture-in-picture on iOS”;
• Choose “Try”.

To test the function on your iPhone, here is the procedure.

• Launch a video on the YouTube application;
• Return to home on iPhone with the Touch ID button or gesture from the bottom of the screen.

On the YouTube experiments page, Google specifies that the PiP test period is open until October 31. We imagine that the firm plans to launch the deployment of this function for all users by that date. According to Google’s promise in June, all YouTube users will be able to enjoy PiP in the United States. It remains to be seen whether this opening up to users of the free service will extend to Europe and France more particularly.