YouTube ends experiment to quickly enable picture-in-picture on iOS, but it's still available for existing users

YouTube began officially rolling out picture-in-picture to the iOS app in June last year, which was a very slow process. Premium subscribers got a workaround, but YouTube's picture-in-picture test for iPhone and iPad is now over.

The "Picture-in-Picture on iOS" experiment (which started in August) has disappeared from youtube.com/new after ending in early April. Google notifies people with a "The feature you are trying is turned off" banner on the desktop website and mobile app.

That said, YouTube PiP is still available to iPhone and iPad users who previously enabled the test. It didn't go away on the iPad where we were actively using PiP while installing the YouTube app on the new iPhone and logging into a premium account to enable it.

However, power users who have never tried the experiment do not have picture-in-picture today. 10 months later, YouTube has yet to roll out the feature widely.

With YouTube TV widely rolling out PiP for its iOS app, a full rollout is expected soon. It was announced at the end of March and became fully available this week. Arguably, premium cord-cutting products need it even more.

Picture-in-picture is a benefit (i.e. background playback) for paid YouTube Premium users around the world. In the United States, PiP will be free to ad-supported users. Music content is excluded from possible upsells on YouTube's dedicated streaming service.

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