

Open the YouTube video in Safari on your Mac as normal.There are just a few steps to start watching a YouTube video in picture-in-picture on the Mac in Safari.
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How to use YouTube picture-in-picture in Safari on the Mac Unlike on iOS, however, YouTube’s efforts can only go so far. As we’ve seen on the iPhone and iPad side of things, YouTube isn’t keen on giving its users the ability to easily watch videos anywhere outside of the native YouTube app or website. YouTube seems like it wants to hide the option to watch videos in picture-in-picture. For those of you who are like me and have gone over four years without it, this article is for you. I’ll be the first to admit that most of you reading this probably already know how to activate picture-in-picture mode on YouTube’s website in Safari.

The option is hidden behind a couple of clicks… Apple added support for native picture-in-picture video to Safari on the Mac way back in 2016, and YouTube has supported it since day one. The ability to watch YouTube using picture-in-picture on the Mac isn’t new, but it’s new to me.
