YouTube’s PiP Feature Could Expand to Non-Premium Users Outside the US Soon

YouTube began rolling out its PiP (Picture-in-Picture) function for a wider viewers again in 2021. This widespread function of the video streaming app permits customers to watch movies whereas accessing different apps on their machine. YouTube customers in markets exterior the US require a Premium subscription to entry the PiP performance. But this might change in the future as a number of posts on social media platforms point out that non-premium customers in Europe are presently getting entry to YouTube’s PiP performance.

Multiple threads on Reddit recommend that YouTube is rolling out PiP mode for non-subscribers exterior the US. The posts embrace movies of the function to add credibility to the claims, exhibiting a mini-player in a floating window for music movies whereas utilizing different apps on their units. Users largely from the Europe area appear to have noticed the PiP function on their units.

YouTube is but to reveal plans to increase PiP to non-subscribers exterior the US. So, this data must be thought of with a pinch of salt. Google is speculated to be testing PiP with a choose group of non-Premium European customers. The unintended rollout might be attributed to unknown bugs as nicely.

However, a latest remark from YouTube’s X account contradicts this declare. It states that PiP exterior the US is presently restricted to Premium subscriptions. As per YouTube’s assist web page for PiP, customers exterior the US may have to subscribe to Premium to entry it.

Google introduced Picture-in-Picture assist for all YouTube Premium subscribers on iOS worldwide together with India again in 2021. On Android, the multitasking function was out there for fairly a while.

YouTube Premium in India prices Rs. 129 monthly. Google is providing a one-month free membership plan for brand new customers and a Rs. 79 month-to-month plan for college kids. The household plan that enables addition of up to 5 members in the family prices Rs. 189. Google is charging Rs. 1,290 for a yearly plan, whereas a three-month plan comes for Rs. 399. Besides PiP, YouTube Premium provide advantages like ad-free content material, offline watching, downloads, and entry to YouTube Music Premium.