The “Image-in-Image on iOS” experiment (from August) has disappeared from youtube.com/new after hitting its early April finish date. Google notified individuals with a “The function you’re making an attempt has been turned off” banner on the desktop website and cell apps.
That mentioned, the YouTube PiP nonetheless works for iPhone and iPad customers that beforehand had the check enabled. It didn’t disappear on one iPad we actively use PiP on, whereas putting in the YouTube app on a brand new iPhone and signing right into a Premium account enabled it.
Premium customers, nonetheless, that by no means tried the experiment shouldn’t have PiP right now. YouTube has but to broadly roll out the aptitude 10 months later.
A full launch is hopefully coming quickly as YouTube TV has simply broadly rolled out PiP for its iOS app. It was introduced on the finish of March and is absolutely obtainable as of this week. It’s arguably rather more wanted for the premium cord-cutting product.
Image-in-Image is a perk (i.e. background play) for paying YouTube Premium customers world wide. Within the US, PiP can be made obtainable without spending a dime, ad-supported customers. Music content material is excluded as a possible upsell to YouTube’s devoted streaming service.
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