On iPad, with Picture in Picture, you can watch a video or use FaceTime while you use other apps. The video window scales down to a corner of your screen, and you can resize it, move it to a different corner, hide it off the edge of the screen, or return to a full video screen.
Note: Picture in Picture works only with supported apps and videos, so if the option isn’t available, it’s possible the app or video doesn’t support it.
Start Picture in Picture
While watching a video, tap the Minimize Video button or press the Home button (on an iPad with a Home button).
Because the video window scales down to a corner of your screen, the Home Screen stays visible and you can open other apps.
Manage the Picture in Picture window
You can do any of the following while the video window is showing:
- Resize the video window: To make the small video window larger, pinch open. To shrink it again, pinch closed.
- Show and hide controls: Tap the video window.
- Move the video window: Drag it to a different corner of the screen.
- Hide the video window: Drag it off the left or right edge of the screen.
- Close the video window: Tap the Close button.
- Return to a full video screen: Tap the Restore Full Screen button in the small video window.
See also
