How to Enable Picture-in-Picture for YouTube on Your Mac: Step-by-Step Guide

If you want to listen to music in the background or watch your favourite YouTube video in the corner of your screen, you should know about YouTube’s picture-in-picture feature. This lets you show your YouTube movies in a small window that pops up and can be moved around your screen.

Mac users can turn on the tool in a number of ways, and both Safari and Google Chrome support it. There’s also an excellent Chrome add-on that makes the job easier by letting you do it with just one click. Here’s how to make picture-in-picture work on YouTube on your Mac.

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Use Safari

Step 1: Right-click on the YouTube movie itself while it’s open in Safari. On this page, though, you won’t be able to find FIP. To get a second pop-up menu, you need to right-click on a different part of the movie, as demonstrated above. You will still be able to access the first menu on the screen. Hold down the Control key and tap the mouse on a MacBook. The second choice can be reached by repetition.

Step 2: Select “Enter Picture in Picture” from the menu that appears.
Step 3: The video should play in a smaller window outside of Safari, just like YouTube’s Miniplayer choice, which can be found on the video’s embedded toolbar. You can switch to another app, desktop programme, or browser tab, and the movie will still play. But it would help if you kept the parent tab open, or the PIP window would close.
Step 4: Simply place the window where you want it to appear, then drag it by clicking and holding the mouse button. Release the button to complete positioning the window. In order to resize a MacBook window, use two fingers to tap and drag the keyboard. Position the window with both hands.
Step 5: To return to the YouTube page where the video was originally loaded in Safari, either click the X button or tap the PIP button that appears next to Play/Pause in the PIP window.

Use Google Chrome

Step 1: Launch Google Chrome and right-click the video to open it in YouTube. But FIP isn’t going to be on this page. To get a second pop-up menu, you need to right-click on a different part of the movie, as demonstrated above. You will still be able to access the first menu on the screen. Hold down the Control key and tap the mouse on a MacBook. The second choice can be reached by repetition.
Step 2: Choose the “Picture in Picture” choice from the second menu.
In the same way that Safari’s PIP option does, the movie should show up in a smaller window outside of Google Chrome. Only don’t close the video’s parent tab when you open a new tab or app.
Step 3:

Move the window.
Move the mouse over it.
Click and hold the mouse button.
Drag the mouse.

To finish putting the window in place, let go of the button. To move the window on a MacBook, tap the keyboard with one finger and then tap and drag another finger. Use both hands to move the window into place.

Step 4: There are two ways to get back to the video’s original YouTube page: Tap or click on the X button or the PIP button next to Play/Pause.

Use Google’s Chrome extension.

You could always add Google’s app if all that right-clicking needs to be more annoying in Chrome.

Step 1: Click “Add to Chrome” in the Chrome Web Store to add Google’s Picture-in-Picture Extension.
Step 2: To view a YouTube video in PIP mode, use Chrome and navigate to the video you wish to view.
Step 3: In the top right part of your browser, the Picture-in-Picture Extension icon should be next to your Google profile picture. If not, click or tap on the puzzle-piece-shaped Extensions button and then click the pin next to the extension in the drop-down menu.
Step 4: Select the symbol that resembles an image within an image. Aside from Google Chrome, right-clicking the video should not be required to view it in a smaller window.
Step 5: