Hi everyone aaron here for Zollotech and ios 14 and ios 15 have the ability to use
picture-in-picture video as you probably already know you can use the video at the top or bottom
or make it smaller or off to the side while you're in a different app or texting someone for example
and android has had the ability to use that natively within youtube for years but ios has not
now you can finally use it on ios and many people have been asking me how do you enable this since
youtube announced it how do you enable it what do you need in order to use it and the first thing
you need is to have the latest version of the app so go to your app store refresh your apps and make
sure you have the youtube version 16.23.3 and as long as you have this version or newer you should
be able to use picture-in-picture now it's not available for everyone just yet you need to be
a premium subscriber at first but they're going to roll it out to everyone later on
so if you're not already a premium subscriber you may not have the option yet but they haven't
said when but they should make it available to everyone soon hopefully it's very soon
now the next thing you need to do is make sure that picture-in-picture is enabled in the youtube
app so go into the youtube app and once you're there tap on your little icon in the upper right
then go down to settings under settings tap on general and under general make sure you have
picture in picture enabled once you have that enabled you're good to go now if we go to one
of my videos we'll play it here i have the volume down this is the latest iphone cases all we need
to do is open the video swipe up to go home and now the video is playing and we can move it around
we can swipe it off to the side we can also shrink it and we can double tap to change the size of it
as well double tap again it shrinks again so you have that option and then also you have a
couple other options of course you can close the video with the apps you can also pause it jump 15
seconds ahead or 15 seconds back or go back to the app with this button it'll bring you back
in the app or you can turn to go home or turn to go full screen but if you swipe up and go home
you don't have landscape video options so that's how it works and you'll see it works just like
you would expect now this is also working on ipad as well so if we go over to the ipad
we'll take a look here and on the ipad if we go into youtube again we'll go to one of my videos
swipe up to go home and now we have the picture in picture app just like all the other apps so
again you can resize it small to a larger size move it to any one of the corners you'd like
or swipe it off to the side and let it play in the background so you have that option on ios 14
ipad os 14 ipad os 15 and ios 15. that's available on all of those devices now there
is another catch unfortunately you have to be in the united states for this to be enabled
so currently it's available in the united states someone else in the uk said it's available as well
and it's available just in those two areas youtube has actually said it's only available in the us
to start why they're rolling this out to just one area at first it's hard to say but that's
currently what they're doing now also for those of you that don't have premium if you want to try it
in safari you can but youtube often disables this so if you go into safari go to youtube
go to a video this is one of my videos make it full screen we'll hit play swipe up to go home and
it goes home to picture-in-picture then disappears we can try it again and it disappears and this is
often the case youtube kind of goes back and forth allowing it and then it's not allowed so
right now you can't use it so hopefully we'll have it everywhere in the app very very soon now
i did test this on other ios versions as well and the main thing is to make sure that you have that
latest version so this is ios 14.7 for example if i open up my ios 15 video swipe up to go home
i've got picture in picture so the same thing works on ios 14 ios 15 and should work on any
ios 14 device although they haven't specified if you need a specific version but you've got
the same feature on all of them with the ability to use picture-in-picture which is really nice
so this is available to all of those devices now and again like i said i'm not sure why it's
not rolled out around the world at this point but we'll have to wait and see what they have
planned as far as the rollout time when it comes to non-premium subscribers they haven't said any
of that yet but we do have that picture in picture ability again just make sure that it's enabled in
your settings we'll hit play swipe up to go home and it's playing so i'm glad we have this ability
i wish they'd bring it out to more people but right now we haven't seen it rolled out anywhere
else but if it's rolled out for you i'd love to hear from you in the comments below also i'd
love to hear what version you're on as far as ios and also what country you're in if you're seeing
this in other countries i'd love to hear from you hopefully by the time you're watching this
video in a couple weeks if you're watching it at that point you'll have it in your country as well
but again let me know which country you have it available in and hopefully you have it very soon
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