YouTube TV adding picture-in-picture on iOS ‘soon’

Google’s YouTube TV service, regardless of its excessive value, is among the greatest methods to maintain reside channels with out conventional cable. Now, in an interview, a YouTube TV exec has confirmed that picture-in-picture assist is coming to iOS and encompass sound will see expanded assist too.

Chatting with The Verge, YouTube chief product officer Neal Mohan confirmed a couple of options coming to YouTube TV within the “coming months.”

Initially, that features the arrival of picture-in-picture assist for the iOS model of YouTube TV. Google has supported that function on Android for a lengthy time, however it was absent from iOS. A selected timeline for this function is unknown, however Mohan stated that it’ll “hopefully” arrive in “the following few months.” Notably, picture-in-picture simply got here to the common YouTube app final 12 months.

In the meantime, YouTube TV can also be engaged on increasing another options. That features encompass sound, which launched final 12 months on a really restricted subset of gadgets. Mohan stated the rollout of encompass sound has been “rather a lot slower than [he] would’ve appreciated,” however that the “scenario must be dramatically higher” in six months or so. Because it stands at this time, some gadgets that do assist 5.1 encompass sound on YouTube TV embrace Vizio, Samsung, and LG TVs, in addition to Google’s authentic Chromecast — not the newer one based mostly on Google TV.

Lastly, Mohan confirmed a brand new function within the pipeline for YouTube TV’s cell app, which is able to make further information seen in panorama mode. Because it stands at this time, some content material on YouTube TV will present further associated info and, in fact, controls when viewing in portrait mode, however rotating the system removes all of that from view.