You can watch videos while using other apps using Picture-in-Picture (PiP) mode, which shrinks the video into a floating, movable window, or by using your browser's desktop mode for web videos to enable background play. On mobile, enable PiP in your app settings (like YouTube's settings > General), then swipe up from the app to make the video float, or use split-screen on Android to have video and another app side-by-side. For browsers, install a PiP extension or request the desktop site for YouTube in your mobile browser to pop the video out.
You can play YouTube in the background using a browser trick (requesting desktop site in Chrome/Safari) for free audio, enabling Picture-in-Picture (PiP) in app settings for video multitasking (often needs Premium), or by subscribing to YouTube Premium for seamless background audio and video across devices.
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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 play YouTube in the background using a browser trick (requesting desktop site in Chrome/Safari) for free audio, enabling Picture-in-Picture (PiP) in app settings for video multitasking (often needs Premium), or by subscribing to YouTube Premium for seamless background audio and video across devices.
With Picture in Picture, you can watch a video or use FaceTime while you use other apps. in the video window. The video window scales down to a corner of your screen so you can see the Home Screen and open other apps.
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