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YouTube Playables now support multitasking.

I’m not one of the people who watches YouTube or TikTok videos while some endless runner game scrolls by, but if you are, this YouTube Playables feature is for you.

On desktop and Android (iOS is still audio-only for now), you can now have the miniplayer visible while you play one of the games from YouTube’s library, as shown here with The Vergecast’s holiday episode.

Animated GIF with screncapture of a phone playing an endless runner game with The Vergecast video playing in a small picture-in-picture window.
Why not both?
Screenshot: Tall Runner / The Vergecast
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