Screenshot: Khamosh Pathak
Android’s Picture-in-Picture feature is incredibly useful when you’re using Google Maps or talking to someone on a video call. But did you know that the same feature can work in Chrome for watching videos in the background?
Even better, this works for YouTube as well—and you don’t need to be a YouTube Premium subscriber to use it.
Let’s enable the feature first. Open your phone’s Settings app go to Apps > Special app access > Picture-in-Picture > Chrome and enable the “Allow picture-in-picture” feature.
Open Chrome, start playing a video, and navigate to the home screen. The video will continue in the background, in a little floating window that you can resize.
