YouTube picture-in-picture (PiP) mode is broken on iPhone, Android

<div class="feat-image"><img src="https://9to5mac.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2026/07/YouTube-Logo-App-3.jpg?quality=82&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1600" /></div><p class="wp-block-paragraph">YouTube is aware of an issue on Android and iPhone where picture-in-picture (PiP) mode does not activate when closing the app.</p> via You searched for iphone - 9to5Mac https://9to5google.com/2026/07/18/youtube-pip-broken/