YouTube Backtracks iOS Picture-in-Picture Announcement

YouTube has backtracked its announcement that picture-in-picture was coming to iOS 'in a matter of days'.

The company says it 'totally messed up' its tweet in excitement over picture-in-picture for YouTube TV.

@TeamYouTube had responded to a question about the now ended experimental support for PiP that was available to YouTube Premium users, saying "the Picture-in-Picture feature is still rolling out & will be available in a matter of days across all iOS 15+ devices."


That message has now been deleted and replaced with...

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Hi again! Previous tweet was about PiP coming to @YouTubeTV – deleted to avoid any confusion!

For YouTube: PiP was temporarily available on http://youtube.com/new for Premium (only until April 8), it's not widely available yet, but working on it, updates to come soon!
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The mixup is likely to increase frustration among users who have been waiting for the feature since it launched with iPadOS 13.


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