How to play YouTube videos in Picture in Picture on PC or Mac

11 Nov

Did you know that you can watch YouTube videos in an overlayed Picture in Picture mode whilst working from home? With just 2 double clicks you can open up a whole world of possibilities on YouTube with this hidden gem of a feature - and we can’t believe how many people still don’t know about this!

Open up a YouTube video in your browser
Right click
Right click again!
Click ‘Enter Picture in Picture’

From here you can now bring the Picture in Picture box back into the YouTube tab, or pause/resume the video.

Ok, so why is this so useful? Well, watching and listening to content whilst working from home plays an important part in entertaining you throughout a working day, and also actually helps you becoming distracted. The world of ASMR content has been steadily popular since 2020, and we’ve even recommended our 3 favourite pieces of ASMR content to try when working from home.

Stop playing YouTube videos the old way and then struggling to find the video in a sea of open tabs, and instead put you and your content back into your control with this ‘hack’.

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