Even when other apps are opened and currently in use, you can keep a YouTube video playing on your Home Screen by enabling the Picture-in-Picture iPhone settings. It pushes the video to the corner of the screen where you can either dismiss the video, expand it to full-screen or continue playing it in the shrunken mode while working on other apps.
What is Picture-in-Picture iPhone
The Picture-in-Picture iPhone mode is a type of floating window mode that shrinks the video into a small player you can move around your device’s screen and position over other apps. This way, you can keep an eye on what you are watching while interacting with other sites, or applications. It gives you complete control over a video window!
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This hands-on guide shares a handy tip to enable the picture-in-picture iPhone option for YouTube videos or FaceTime calls. Here’s how!
- Open Settings.
- Go to General.
- Scroll down to the Picture in Picture heading.
- Enable the option.
Let’s cover the steps in a bit of detail!
Open Settings on your iPhone and scroll down to the General section.
When the General screen appears, locate the Picture-in-Picture option. Expand its menu by tapping the side-arrow next to it.
Toggle the switch adjacent to the Start PiP entry to the On position.
Hereafter, when you swipe up to go to the Home Screen or switch to other opened apps, videos, and FaceTime calls will automatically continue in the PiP window.
You can also do the same manually using this trick. Look for a video you would like to play on YouTube.
When found, play the video in full-screen mode.
Tap on the PiP icon and you are ready to go!
If needed, you can drag the video to any suitable location on the screen and resize the video size using two fingers gesture.
Please note, that when the mode is active, the floating video window sits silently along the edge of the screen. The video size is also minimized and it becomes borderless. Simply tap the video to get playback controls, as well as buttons, to return to the full-screen app.
If you would like to close or disable it, simply tap the window in the corner of your screen and hit the close button, marked as ‘X’.
Hope it makes sense!
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