Google rolls picture-in-picture for global YouTube users

YouTube’s picture-in-picture feature has been around for some time now, but until recently, it wasn’t available to non-Premium users outside the US. You’d have to be either a Premium subscriber or be based in the US.

Starting this week, YouTube is opening up the feature to non-Premium users globally, but with a small caveat. Non-paying Android and iOS users will be able to play long-form, non-music content in PiP mode. Users in the US are not affected by this change, though.

In this regard, YouTube is putting Premium Lite members and non-Premium users on the same level, restricting…