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Vishnu kumaran

Stealth • 2m

Recently I was watching YouTube Shorts, I returned to the home screen, and, to my surprise, Picture-in-Picture mode activated for YouTube Shorts. I wondered when this feature was even released. After doing some research, I found that Picture-in-Picture is generally available only for Premium users. I feel like this might have been a strategy to encourage users to subscribe to Premium. And, interestingly, the Picture-in-Picture mode didn’t happen again. Is it also happening for you guys?

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Akhilesh Tripathi

Stealth • 2m

yes this is a premium feature and I did not get this in free version. As I have premium version on YouTube so I checked it with another free account

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DreamyStone

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it has happened to me and I found out the same

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SamCtrlPlusAltMan
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OpenAI • 2m

For some channels i get it by default

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Anonymous 1

Stealth • 2m

Same here! I noticed PiP on my Shorts out of nowhere, but it was gone the next day. Maybe YouTube is testing the feature for non-Premium users to hook us. Clever marketing if that’s the case

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Nawal

Stealth • 2m

Yup ! Available for me too

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