Picture in Picture

Though it’s hard to discover, there’s a slightly faster and less frictious way to switch from full-screen video playback in Safari or the Videos app to Picture in Picture mode video (available on the iPad Air 2, iPad mini 4 and iPad Pro). Rather than tapping once on a full-screen video to reveal playback controls and then again on the specific control that pulls it out of its parent app into a small thumbnail in the corner of the screen, simply double-tap on the full-screen video with two fingers. Repeat the gesture on the shrunk-down video to return to full-screen playback.