Android and iPad users have long been able to watch videos while running other apps, but so far iOS users have been left in the dark, forced to switch between apps when trying to multi-task. That’s changing today. At WWDC2020, Apple announced it would bring picture-in-picture to iPhones.
Finally, you can get distracted by cat videos while trying to get work done on your iPhone.
The feature works about as you would expect. You can resize and move videos around to different corners of your screen, and switch between a few different sizes. There is also a handful of controls to skip ahead or backward in a video. If you only care about the audio portion of the video, you can do that too by swiping a video to the left or right of the screen.
The feature will premiere with iOS 14.
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Published June 22, 2020 — 17:29 UTC
