At lengthy final, the YouTube app on iOS is getting picture-in-picture assist, permitting customers to proceed watching movies in a small pop-up window whereas scrolling on their iPhones and iPads.

In a press release to Gizmodo and different shops on Friday, a YouTube spokesperson mentioned the function is at the moment rolling out worldwide to YouTube Premium subscribers first. A bigger launch for all iOS customers within the U.S. is seemingly within the works, however YouTube didn’t present a timeline for when free customers can count on to entry the function.

Apple introduced picture-in-picture video assist to iPads with iOS 9 and iPhones with iOS 14, although truly getting it to work with the YouTube app has been another story. Some customers have discovered inventive workarounds by way of the YouTube web site on Safari or iOS Shortcuts. However, updates on YouTube’s finish rendered a few of these shortcuts out of date except you pay for its $12-per-month Premium service.

With official assist coming to iOS, hopefully these complications shall be a factor of the previous, and iOS customers will quickly be capable to get pleasure from the identical function that Android users have been capable of for years.

Now, I don’t have a canine in the entire Android vs. iOS battle; rising up, my household purchased devices based mostly on whichever model had the higher sale, and I’ve struggled to shake that curmudgeonly penny-pinching even now with entry to Real Adult cash. That indifference hasn’t stopped Apple fanboys from speaking my ear off, although, particularly after I lastly bought my first smartphone: a Nexus 6, a mannequin that was already a yr previous by the point I saved up sufficient to snag one in 2015 (Yes, I do know, I used to be tremendous late to the sport). But hey, even that previous factor had picture-in-picture assist.

Update: 6/18/2021, 8:04 p.m.: Added assertion from YouTube.