Use Picture-in-Picture on your Chromebook

You can watch videos in a floating window when you do other tasks with other websites or applications with Picture-in-Picture.

Use Picture-in-Picture

  1. On your Chromebook, open a video.
    • You can open a video on Chrome or Android apps.
  2. Select Picture-in-Picture.

Resize Picture-in-Picture window

When you double-tap or double-click the Picture-in-Picture window, you can resize between maximum and minimum sizes.

  1. To resize, drag the window's top corner and make it to your preferred size.
  2. Double-tap or double-click the window and it resizes to the window size you created.
    • When you double-tap on the size you created, the Picture-in-Picture maximizes and when you double-tap again, it minimizes the size you created.
    • When you double-tap on the maximum size you created, the Picture-in-Picture returns to the default size.

Tips:

  • When you double-tap or double-click the window at a default size, the Picture-in-Picture window maximizes.
  • The new Picture-in-Picture window without a cached size starts at around 20% of the given work area size.
  • The maximum size for a Chrome Picture-in-Picture window is about 80% of the work area.

Tuck Picture-in-Picture window

Important: When you drag the Picture-in-Picture window to the top or bottom edge of your screen, it gets removed.

If you want to focus on other tasks temporarily, you can tuck the Picture-in-Picture window without removal.

  1. Drag the Picture-in-Picture window to the left or right edge of your screen.
  2. To untuck the window, select the Tuck handle.
    • If you drag the window to the right, the Tuck handle is .
    • If you drag the window to the left, the Tuck handle is .

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