Picture-in-picture (PiP) shrinks a video into a small player so you can keep watching while using other apps on your mobile device. You can move the small player around your device’s home screen and position it over other apps.
How to use picture-in-picture on your mobile device
Using picture-in-picture
To use picture-in-picture (PiP), exit the YouTube app while a video is playing. If you have the PiP setting turned on, the video will shrink into a PiP window. The PiP window can be dragged to different parts of the screen, allowing playback to continue on top of other apps. You can pause or stop playing a video before you exit YouTube to prevent PiP from turning on.
You can use picture-in-picture (PiP) to watch content across YouTube, with a YouTube Premium membership. If you don’t have YouTube Premium and are in the United States, you can still use PiP, but you can’t watch certain content, like music videos.
Turning picture-in-picture OFF
- Go to your YouTube app settings
General.
- To turn off, toggle Picture-in-Picture to off.
General.Turning picture-in-picture ON
Picture-in-picture is turned on by default for devices running iOS 15.0 and above that have not turned off background play in the YouTube app.
- Go to your iOS device settings
- To turn on, tap Start PiP Automatically.
- Go to your YouTube app settings
- To turn on, toggle Picture-in-Picture to on.