Watching Youtube when opening other applications on Android? Here's how!
Vexa friends, did you know there is now a way to watch YouTube while opening other applications on Android? Yes, there are several ways to do this. Now you can watch your favorite videos on YouTube while opening other applications you want, such as: B. Applications for surfing the Internet, chatting with friends or others.
Unlike before, once you have YouTube open, you will not be able to do any activity on your favorite Android-based smartphone. If you want to do it anyway, you must first close the YouTube video that you are currently watching and it will stop playing automatically.
How do you watch YouTube while opening another application on Android? Come on, read the review below.
2 ways to watch Youtube while opening other applications on Android
1. Using the PiP function
The presence of the Picture-in-Picture (PiP) feature allows you to keep opening YouTube videos while doing other activities on your favorite smartphone. Using this feature, the YouTube video you are playing will be smaller and its position can be moved as you like. To activate this feature:
- First, open ‘Settings’ on your favorite smartphone smartphone
- Then select “Apps and notifications”.
- Next, swipe the screen and tap “Advanced”.
- Then open the ‘Special app access’. Later some special access requests will appear on your smartphone screen
- Then tap on “Picture-in-Picture” and select “Youtube”
- Then press ‘Allow picture-in-picture’ to enable it
Keep in mind that this feature can play almost all types of videos except music videos. Because music videos can only be played by premium YouTube users with this function. But don’t worry, you can check a video to see if it supports the PiP format or not before playing it.
Unfortunately, users of iOS-based devices could not use this way of watching YouTube when opening other applications on Android because the PiP function is not yet available on these Apple-made devices.
2. Using awesome popup video apps
If the first method above uses the standard feature, the second way to watch YouTube when opening another application on Android this time is to use an application called Awesome Pop-up Video, which can be downloaded for free from the Google Play Store.
After downloading and installing the application, don’t forget to make some settings first. The method is as follows:
- Go to “Settings” and select “Preferred playback quality for videos” from 720p to 240p or 360p. The purpose of changing the video quality is to save the internet data quota that you will use when you play YouTube videos later. After all, the quality of the video image display looks the same as it comes in the form of a small popup.
- Then switch to the ‘First row’ tab. There you will see a list of the videos recommended by the application. You can also search for it by clicking the search button in the top right corner.
You need to know that Awesome Pop-up Video can search and display videos not only from YouTube but also from Vimeo, even TEDTalk. When you find the video you want, just press the video and the Awesome Pop-up Video application will play it in pop-up mode. Now you can do other activities as you like, such as: B. surf the Internet, chat with friends, open social media and much more.
Shut down
After reading the above article, you surely already know how to watch YouTube while opening other applications on Android. Now, of course, you can do whatever activities you want on your favorite smartphone while watching the YouTube videos you want.
