Auto Picture-in-Picture

Video in installed Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) will enter and exit picture-in-picture automatically when a document's visibility changes. Web apps for video meetings will benefit by allowing picture-in-picture when users switch back and forth between web apps and other applications or tabs. This is currently not possible because a user gesture is required to enter picture-in-picture.

Demo

• https://googlechrome.github.io/samples/auto-picture-in-picture/

Documentation

• https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2019/02/chrome-73-media-updates#auto-pip
• https://github.com/WICG/picture-in-picture/issues/111

Specification

Editor's draft

Status in Chromium

Blink components: Blink>Media>PictureInPicture

Origin trial (tracking bug) in:

• Chrome for desktop release 73

Consensus & Standardization

• Firefox: No public signals
• Edge: Public support
• Safari: No public signals
• Web Developers: Positive

Owners

• fbeaufort@chromium.org
• mlamouri@chromium.org

Last updated on 2019-02-07