The YouTube app on iOS will be getting picture-in-picture support, permitting all customers to look at movies whereas doing different issues on their iPhones and iPads. A YouTube spokesperson instructed The Verge that the function is at the moment rolling out to Premium subscribers, and {that a} launch for all iOS customers (together with the free ones) within the US is within the works.

Apple added help for picture-in-picture video for iPads with iOS 13, and introduced it to iPhones with iOS 14. Since then, YouTube’s help for the function on iPhones and iPads has been spotty — it really works for iPad if you happen to’re utilizing Safari (although some have reported it doesn’t work for non-Premium subscribers); iPhone customers have solely been capable of entry the function periodically.

That complication appears to be going away, at the least for these within the US: iOS customers, with or with no YouTube Premium subscription, will quickly have entry to it utilizing the YouTube app as Android users have for years. YouTube didn’t present a timeline for when the function would arrive without spending a dime customers, however said the rollout to Premium subscribes is in progress.