How to Enable Picture in Picture Straight from Youtube app in iOS 14

Umar Usman
Mac O’Clock
Published in
4 min readAug 6, 2020

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Apple finally introduced Picture in Picture mode in iOS 14 for iPhone and iPad. Android users have this feature for years but finally, Apple also implemented this feature in iOS 14 which is coming this September for its users. Many people tested this feature on the Beta version of iOS 14 but they are only allowed to play videos from the safari browser not from Youtube or any other app like Facebook. Many people want to play Youtube videos on the screen while doing other stuff on their phones like messaging and while using social media apps. But there is no official way to directly turn on the picture in picture mode from the Youtube app and we all know Youtube will never implement this feature on their app.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/07/01/using-picture-in-picture-on-iphone-with-ios-14

Today I am going to show you a very simple method to enable Picture in Picture mode straight from the Youtube app in iOS 14.

These are the quick steps to Enable Picture in Picture mode straight from the Youtube app.

  1. First, you need to get the Apple Shortcuts app which is installed on your iPhone by default. If you found the Shortcut app on your iPhone if you don’t download it from the AppStore. Now make sure you enable Allow Untrusted Shortcuts from settings. If you couldn't find the Untrusted…

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Umar Usman
Mac O’Clock

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