YouTube TV is set to get a new feature soon that will allow users to watch their favorite shows in picture-in-picture mode on their iPhone. The feature will be available as part of an update to the app, which is set to release later this month. YouTube TV is a live streaming service that offers over 50 channels, including ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC. The service costs $35 per month and includes ads. YouTube TV has been criticized for not having enough original programming, but the addition of picture-in-picture mode could help address that issue. Picture-in-picture mode allows users to watch two separate programs at the same time on their iPhone. This can be helpful when watching YouTube TV with friends who are also watching different shows. The feature will also be useful for parents who want to keep an eye on their children while they watch television shows. The update to the YouTube TV app is set to release later this month and will include picture-in-picture mode. ..
On the latest episode of The Vergecast, YouTube chief product officer Neal Mohan said that PiP will arrive on YouTube TV on iPhone “hopefully in the next few months.” Unfortunately, he didn’t get overly specific, so it’s hard to know exactly when the feature will arrive.
For Android users, the ability to watch YouTube TV in PiP has been available for some time, making the feature even more anticipated for iPhone users.
Outside of PiP, Mohan talked about other YouTube TV features that will arrive in the future. The big thing he revealed is that Surround sound will start rolling out to more devices.
During the podcast, Mohan said, “The rollout of that feature has certainly been a lot slower than I would’ve liked. My hope though is, hopefully over the next six months, you start to see that in a lot more devices out there as they go through their various stages of software upgrade cycles. I think that if we’re chatting in six months, that situation should be dramatically better.”
It seems that Google has plans to make YouTube TV better, which is great because it’s a service a lot of people pay for, and new features make the expense easier to swallow.
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