There is no doubt that YouTube is one of the best streaming platforms accessible in Europe. It has an extensive catalog that covers all types of content, from documentaries to short films, awareness videos, music and even help videos for all types of tasks.
The platform has a premium subscription which offers many benefits to users, like background playback or improving video quality. YouTube has wanted to give greater visibility to this subscription in recent months, and now one of its main advantages on Android could end up affecting all users.
It is about floating video playback, something that the company has already introduced in free mode in the United States and which could soon be available to all users in Europe, and which can be an important advantage when using multitasking on an Android mobile or tablet.
Floating video could happen
The mode Picture in picture This is a fairly simple functionality that consists of the fact that, while a video is playing, it is possible to exit YouTube and open any other application, while this one becomes playing in a window on the screen. This can be moved in any direction, as well as enlarged or reduced, it’s quite versatile.
This allows you to watch a video while doing other tasks, like putting an event on the calendar, checking alarms, or even browsing the internet or shopping online. Currently in Europe this is a function limited to Premium accounts, but several messages have appeared on Reddit from European users indicating that they can take advantage of this functionality without the need for a subscription.
YouTube floating window with unofficial method
In the US, this feature is free and YouTube may be testing to follow the same steps in Europe. It doesn’t appear that this will have an immediate effect for all users, but rather that the company plans to release the feature. It is even possible that it is an error.
However, it wouldn’t be crazy to think that YouTube could offer this feature to all free users, since there are already regions where this is happening. In addition, this would not detract from the value of the Premium subscription, since it has other advantages that are ahead, such as the elimination of advertising, and there are even unofficial applications that allow you to reproduce this function.
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