{"id":559065,"date":"2026-07-20T13:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T13:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/559065\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T13:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T13:44:10","slug":"youtubes-picture-in-picture-mode-is-broken-on-android-and-ios-google-says-it-is-investigating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/559065\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube&#8217;s picture-in-picture mode is broken on Android and iOS. Google says it is investigating."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            TL;DR<\/p>\n<p>YouTube\u2019s picture-in-picture mode is broken on both Android and iOS. Google acknowledged the bug and says its teams are \u201cactively investigating.\u201c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/phones\/youtube-picture-in-picture-mode-seems-to-be-broken-on-android-and-ios-and-google-is-actively-investigating\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">YouTube\u2019s picture-in-picture mode is failing<\/a> on both Android and iOS for a growing number of users. When the app is exited, the audio continues playing in the background but the floating video overlay does not appear. Google acknowledged the bug in a YouTube Help forum post, saying \u201cour teams are actively investigating the issue.\u201d Most reports are from iPhone users, but the problem is also appearing on Android.<\/p>\n<p>Picture-in-picture was one of YouTube Premium\u2019s most popular features before Google made it available to all users earlier this year. It lets viewers keep watching a video in a small floating window while using other apps. <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/google-search-ai-overhaul-publishers-traffic-open-web\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google has been overhauling its products around AI this year<\/a>, but this bug appears to be a straightforward software regression rather than a feature change. There is no workaround. Users experiencing the issue will have to wait for a fix.<\/p>\n<p>Google did not provide a timeline for when the fix would ship or specify what caused the regression. <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/duckduckgo-user-surge-google-ai-search-overhaul\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DuckDuckGo installs jumped 18% after Google\u2019s AI search overhaul<\/a>, and YouTube\u2019s app reliability is one of the few areas where Google faces no serious competition. Breaking a feature that was until recently a paid perk, weeks after making it free, is the kind of bug that erodes the goodwill the free rollout was supposed to build.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TL;DR YouTube\u2019s picture-in-picture mode is broken on both Android and iOS. Google acknowledged the bug and says its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-559065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}