{"id":916136,"date":"2026-06-28T23:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T04:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/28\/google-rolls-picture-in-picture-for-global-youtube-users\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T23:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T04:12:10","slug":"google-rolls-picture-in-picture-for-global-youtube-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/28\/google-rolls-picture-in-picture-for-global-youtube-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Google rolls picture-in-picture for global YouTube users"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"review-body\">\n<p>YouTube&#8217;s picture-in-picture feature has been around for some time now, but until recently, it wasn&#8217;t available to non-Premium users outside the US. You&#8217;d have to be either a Premium subscriber or be based in the US.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"517\" src=\"https:\/\/fdn.gsmarena.com\/imgroot\/news\/26\/01\/youtube-close-down-background-play-loophole\/-1200\/gsmarena_001.jpg\" alt=\"Google makes the picture-in-picture YouTube feature available to non-premium users\"><\/p>\n<p>Starting this week, YouTube is opening up the feature to non-Premium users globally, but with a small caveat. Non-paying Android and iOS users will be able to play long-form, non-music content in PiP mode. Users in the US are not affected by this change, though.<\/p>\n<p>In this regard, YouTube is putting Premium Lite members and non-Premium users on the same level, restricting music content in PiP mode.<\/p>\n<p>What does YouTube deem music content? All music videos, including official music videos, Art Tracks, children\u2019s songs, and user-generated music content.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/youtube\/thread\/425771437?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/google_makes_the_pictureinpicture_youtube_feature_available_to_nonpremium_users-news-72620.php\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube&#8217;s picture-in-picture feature has been around for some time now, but until recently, it wasn&#8217;t available to non-Premium users outside the US. You&#8217;d have to be either a Premium subscriber or be based in the US. Starting this week, YouTube is opening up the feature to non-Premium users globally, but with a small caveat. Non-paying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":916137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[496,2419,104640],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-google","category-rolls","category-youtube-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}