You can watch videos in a floating window when you do other tasks with other websites or applications with Picture-in-Picture.
Use Picture-in-Picture
- On your Chromebook, open a video.
- You can open a video on Chrome or Android apps.
- Select Picture-in-Picture.
Resize Picture-in-Picture window
When you double-tap or double-click the Picture-in-Picture window, you can resize between maximum and minimum sizes.
- To resize, drag the window's top corner and make it to your preferred size.
- Double-tap or double-click the window and it resizes to the window size you created.
- When you double-tap on the size you created, the Picture-in-Picture maximizes and when you double-tap again, it minimizes the size you created.
- When you double-tap on the maximum size you created, the Picture-in-Picture returns to the default size.
Tips:
- When you double-tap or double-click the window at a default size, the Picture-in-Picture window maximizes.
- The new Picture-in-Picture window without a cached size starts at around 20% of the given work area size.
- The maximum size for a Chrome Picture-in-Picture window is about 80% of the work area.
Tuck Picture-in-Picture window
Important: When you drag the Picture-in-Picture window to the top or bottom edge of your screen, it gets removed.
If you want to focus on other tasks temporarily, you can tuck the Picture-in-Picture window without removal.
- Drag the Picture-in-Picture window to the left or right edge of your screen.
- To untuck the window, select the Tuck handle.
- If you drag the window to the right, the Tuck handle is .
- If you drag the window to the left, the Tuck handle is .