YouTube TV customers are about to get some much-requested options baked into their streaming expertise, together with a wider rollout of picture-in-picture assist for iOS — lastly.
Talking with The Vergecast, YouTube chief product officer Neal Mohan mentioned whereas he couldn’t share a precise date, picture-in-picture assist on iOS ought to arrive “hopefully within the subsequent few months” for YouTube TV customers. The characteristic has been accessible to Android customers for fairly some time, however assist for YouTube TV customers on iOS is lengthy overdue.
Throughout a lightning spherical of characteristic requests throughout the tail finish of the present, Mohan additionally confirmed a handful of different assist information solely to The Verge. YouTube TV introduced assist for encompass sound final summer season, however the rollout has been pretty restricted on units and TVs. (It isn’t even supported on Google’s personal Chromecast with Google TV units but, which is wild.) Mohan attributed the sluggish characteristic rollout to software program assist and software program upgrades, however added that YouTube TV might widen assist over the subsequent six months.
“The rollout of that characteristic has definitely been loads slower than I might’ve preferred,” Mohan instructed The Verge’s EIC Nilay Patel. “My hope although is, hopefully over the subsequent six months, you begin to see that in much more units on the market as they undergo their varied levels of software program improve cycles. I feel that if we’re chatting in six months, that state of affairs needs to be dramatically higher.”
Mohan did later notice that the rollout would occur “regularly,” including, “I feel it’ll occur as these varied units roll out software program updates.”
Lastly, Mohan mentioned that YouTube TV is getting an replace to its interface. These new adjustments will particularly embody updates to the library and information, Mohan mentioned.
“I hope you’ve seen that the best way the UX and the interface continues to enhance frequently, versus type of like a giant bang,” Mohan instructed The Vergecast. “And so, what we’ve retailer in 2022 are a few of these vital, once more, kind of these vital consumer journeys. So there’s clearly type of two of the … Two of the locations are the library and stay, the place all of us, as shoppers of the product, spend loads of time.”
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