YouTube’s picture-in-picture mode will soon be available to everyone, giving you one less reason to subscribe to Premium

• YouTube is rolling out picture-in-picture (PiP) to free users globally
• This was already available to free users in the US, but elsewhere, you had to be a Premium or Premium Lite customer
• PiP lets you keep watching videos in a small player when you leave the YouTube app

If you don’t have YouTube Premium, you should probably consider it, as it’s arguably one of the better subscription services out there. But the free version of YouTube has just got a little bit better for users outside the US, as Google is enabling picture-in-picture (PiP) globally.

That means whatever kind of YouTube account you have, you’ll soon be able to view longform, non-music videos in a little window while interacting with other apps.

To do this, just swipe up or tap the home button to exit the YouTube app while a video is playing — though it might not work yet, as Google claims that PiP is “rolling out to all users globally in the coming months.”

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An upgrade for both iOS and Android