Friday, November 27, 2020

How to use Android Picture-in-Picture mode

 Picture-in-Picture mode Android lets you shrink the video and see picture-in-picture mode, watch the video in a different interface so you can do other things. Currently, this feature is available on Android versions 8 and above, so that users can activate it. The following article will guide you on how to enable Picture-in-Picture mode and use picture-in-picture viewing.

1. How to activate Picture-in-Picture Android

Step 1:

In the interface Settings on the device, you click on Apps and notifications and then click on Access special applications.

Step 2:

In the next interface, click Picture in picture and will see supported applications playing Picture-in-Picture mode.

Note:

This feature only works on certain supported apps.

Some supporting applications require manual activation to enable this feature.

2. How to view picture-in-picture videos on Android

For applications that support picture-in-picture mode, you basically just need to press the Home key to see picture-in-picture video.

How to use Android Picture-in-Picture mode

Some other apps will need to be set up manually, for example with the Chrome browser. You open the website in Chrome and then click on the 3 dot icon, select Website for desktop. Then open the video on the web page in full screen mode.

While watching the video, click the Home icon, the video immediately shows in thumbnail mode as below. You can browse the web while watching videos as you normally would.

To watch the video in normal screen mode, click on the video and then click on the zoom icon.

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