Hello everyone, welcome to another tutorial from windowslovers.com.
Today i'll show you how to minimize youtube on your iphone
and also how to enable picture and picture in iOS 14 for youtube videos, So let's get started.
initially with the launch of iOS 14 beta, apple released a new feature called picture and picture.
This allowed you to continue watching a video while using other apps on your phone . It continues
playing the video in a mini player that you can sort of move around the screen while you use
other apps. Now in the initial beta release, you could use this feature with youtube videos as well
but when iOS 14 was officially released, this feature doesn't seem to work for youtube videos .
now there's a lot of confusion on why this feature is not working, some users claim that it's
because youtube requires you to have a premium account for you to be able to use this feature.
while there are users who have youtube premium who are not able to use the youtube picture in
picture features on ios 14. in this guide i'll be going over two main things. The first is how to
minimize youtube on your iphone and the second is how to enable picture-in-picture mode in is14 for
youtube videos now number one how to minimize youtube on your iphone this is a really old
trick and you might be familiar with it or you might be not but what we're gonna do is we're
gonna use safari to open a youtube video and then use it to minimize it. so let's see how it's done .
so first on the iphone open safari open any video that you like to minimize it
so what you'll do is you'll just pause the video and on the top left corner where you see
two a's tap on that and you should see request desktop site or website tap on that
and now it will open a web version of that video so tap on it you might see some ads
now what you're going to do is you're gonna swipe
up from the bottom now i can see the video has actually paused
you sort of see a picture in picture for a split second and it goes away so now what it will do is
swipe down from the top and you will see that our video is paused so you gotta do tap on it
so now as you can see the video has started play and that's how you minimize a youtube
video on your iphone yeah now this is very useful if you like to play
music from youtube while driving or using other apps i personally use this to listen to a podcast
or sometimes i use this to listen to music while driving to work and back one of the best features
or one of the best things about this trick is you can play music while your iphone is actually
locked which is actually a premium feature that you only get after you purchase youtube premium
so that's how you minimize youtube on your iphone number two how to enable picture-in-picture mode
in ios 14 for youtube videos at the moment it works for other videos like facebook and all that
stuff but for youtube it doesn't work so let's see how you can enable this so you can use picture and
picture on youtube videos on ice 14. for you to be able to achieve this what you need is a google
chrome browser it's you can just go ahead and download google chrome browser from the app store
let's go to app store and search for google chrome
and you're just down on google chrome i've already downloaded what i'll do is i'll open it
go to youtube.com will open the mobile version of the app so what i'm going to do is i'm going to
search for one of my videos just to protect myself from copyright claims i'm going to play one of my
videos and once the video is loaded what you want to do is you're going to tap on the bottom right
three dots and scroll to the bottom and you will see your request desktop site
just tap on that and it opens the youtube web version so play the video again and
while the video is in full screen mode if you swipe from the bottom
it enables the picture in picture mode
so as you can see the video has actually started play in a picture-in-picture mode
so you can take it around you can leave it in the corner and you can use other apps as you prefer
um or you can even slide it inside so that it's sort of hidden and you just tap on it again
to open that again so that's how you can enable picture-in-picture in ice 14 for youtube videos um
this is working as of the time i'm recording this video um so depending on the future updates and
changes to the operating system and the browsers this might or might not work but you can just give
it a shot if you're watching this later so that's how you minimize youtube on your iphone and that's
how you enable picture-in-picture mode in is14 there are other ways to enable picture-in-picture
mode from the youtube app itself without using the browser but for me personally i have faced
many issues with some videos in particular so i did not mention them in this video
but if you like i will definitely make a video on how to use an app called scriptable tool for
you to be able to enable the picture in picture mode from the youtube app itself if you like
me to make a video on that please leave a comment and i will definitely reply to you
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