YouTube for iOS finally gets Picture-in-Picture, only for premium users now

YouTube says it will finally introduce picture-in-picture support on iOS and iPadOS soon, but only in the US.

YouTube, the most popular video platform in order to provide its users with a better experience, has worked hard to bring new features on both Android and iOS. However, YouTube had introduced a picture-in-picture (PiP) feature on Android a long time ago. The company told MacRumors that it is “starting to roll out PiP for YouTube Premium members on iOS and plan[s] to launch PiP for all US iOS users as well.” It did not say when or even if PiP support is expected to reach YouTube users outside the US, but presumably, it will expand to other markets eventually. Though Apple had started supporting Picture in Picture, YouTube never launched this feature of theirs on Apple. For a while, it was possible to watch videos from the platform in PiP via its mobile website, but that feature was restricted to YouTube Premium subscribers in September 2020.