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You can Use Picture in Picture On Any Device. People who do more than one thing at once would love to use this feature, especially if they only have one screen to work with. Microsoft made Windows 11 so that users can do more things at once and be more productive.
Picture in Picture is a cool multitasking feature in Windows 11 that lets people watch videos while doing other things. A full-screen video is basically shrunk down to a small rectangle window that floats on the screen. This lets you look at your social feed or work on documents without being interrupted. Read on to learn how to set up Windows 11’s Picture-in-Picture mode.
How to Use Picture in Picture On Mac
- Open the Safari browser on your Mac
- Go to youtube.com in Safari
- Click on a video you want to watch
- Right-click the video twice
- Select “Enter Picture in Picture.”
Steps Use Picture in Picture On Windows
- Head to the video sharing website of your choice – we’ll be using YouTube for the purposes of this tutorial
- Select the video that you’d like to play in Picture–in–Picture
- Once it starts playing, right-click twice on the video and choose ‘Picture in picture’
- You’ll now see a small window in the bottom-right of the screen with your video, and a message on the main screen saying ‘Playing in picture–in–picture’
- This window can be resized and moved anywhere on the screen, and will display over any active window or the desktop. However, there are only controls for play/pause, returning to tab and closing the window completely
you can visit Microsoft support center for further help.
How to Use Picture in Picture In Android
- Open “Settings.”
- Tap “Apps” & notifications.
- Go to “Advanced > Special” app access.
- Select “Picture-in-Picture.”
- Choose an app from the list.
- Tap the Allow picture-in-picture toggle to “Enable PiP.”
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Use Picture in Picture on iPhone
- Open the Settings app.
- Scroll down and select General.
- Tap Picture in Picture.
- Toggle on Start PiP Automatically.
- On your iPhone or iPad, open a video app you want to use.
- Choose the movie or show you want to watch.
- Once the show or movie is playing, swipe up from the bottom of your screen to go back to Home Screen. If your iPhone or iPad has a Home button, just click that instead.
What Is Picture-in-Picture?
What does “picture” mean? Picture-in-picture (PiP), which is also called “video overlay,” is a feature that can be found on personal computers (PCs), cell phones, and TV receivers. It consists of a video stream playing in a window while other things play on the rest of the screen.
For TVs, PiP needs two separate tuners or signal sources to power the large and small windows. Two-tuner picture-in-picture TVs have a built-in second tuner. A single-tuner PiP TV, on the other hand, needs an external signal source like a tuner, DVD player, VCR, or cable box. Most of the time, PiP is used to watch one show while waiting for another to start or for an ad to end.
FAQs
Android, iOS, and iPadOS support picture-in-picture, but not every app does. For the feature to work, you need to be running a video app that offers built-in PiP capabilities. Most video apps do, including Disney Plus, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and Apple TV.
If the Picture-in-Picture mode not working issue is occurring due to a buggy app build, you should be able to fix it by updating the app. Open Google Play Store and search for your app. If a newer version is available, you should see an Update button. Tap on it to install the most recent version of the app.
Your PiP mode not working issue may have resulted from a corrupt YouTube cache. In this case, clear the app’s cache files, and your issue will be resolved. Clearing the cache doesn’t remove your Google account from the app or delete your account data. Note that you can only clear the app cache on Android.