Picture in Picture

While the iPad has had picture-in-picture support for a long time, Apple is now bringing it to the iPhone too, letting you keep any video playing in minimized form as you navigate through other apps.

However, picture-in-picture videos are now going to be much more dynamic — they can be dragged around the screen and even resized, pinch-to-zoom is supported, and they’ll stay in place between applications, and of course there are the usual set of on-screen controls to return to full screen, close the video, or pause, skip back, or skip forward.

What’s even cooler, considering the limited screen real estate on an iPhone, is that you can also swipe a picture-in-picture window off your screen to one side, and it will keep playing audio in the background. You can then swipe from the edge to bring it back out, similar to how slide-over view works on iPadOS.