You can watch YouTube videos in background tabs in Chrome soon

Tired of having to switch between tabs when you have a YouTube video playing in one while working on something else (or reading an article, or browsing your emails, or chatting on Messenger, etc.) in another? An upcoming Chrome update may have the solution for you. Leopeva64 tweeted (spotted by XDA Developers) that Chrome is testing a new automatic picture-in-picture mode with YouTube videos. This means that you will soon be able to watch YouTube videos from a background tab while actively doing something else in another tab. YouTube now supports automatic picture-in-picture in Chrome Canary. Google announced this feature back in February, but very few sites supported it, now they've finally added it to YouTube:Link to watch or download the video

Apr 23, 2025 - 18:29

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You can watch YouTube videos in background tabs in Chrome soon

Tired of having to switch between tabs when you have a YouTube video playing in one while working on something else (or reading an article, or browsing your emails, or chatting on Messenger, etc.) in another? An upcoming Chrome update may have the solution for you.

Leopeva64 tweeted (spotted by XDA Developers) that Chrome is testing a new automatic picture-in-picture mode with YouTube videos. This means that you will soon be able to watch YouTube videos from a background tab while actively doing something else in another tab.

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