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Twitter/X removing the block feature (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (19 children)

That'd be nice if it actually applied, but Apple has already made exceptions for X among other large companies to allow them to play by different rules in the store. So I'm not holding my breath for any sort of punishment.

Examples:

X got a one letter App Store name that was previously against the rules (other devs need their app name to be at least 2 characters) (more info)
YouTube had been blocking iOS PiP background playback (not sure if they still do) and put that feature behind the YouTube Premium subscription. Background playback and PiP is part of iOS's system capabilities and the rule specifically says it's not allowed. See Apple's guidelines section 3.2.2 (ii) here. With this, one could make the argument that PiP would only support system supported video decoding, and YouTube uses DASH for higher resolution videos, but YouTube does offer video and audio streams that are natively supported by Apple as well so I don't hold much support for this argument.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (18 children)

“Background playback” is behind the premium paywall; NOBODY gets YouTube PIP support on iOS; such a shame.

I repeat, even if you pay for premium you simply can’t do PIP using the official app. You can however use a browser and use PIP that way I think (there used to be some weird workaround but I’m not sure if it still exists).

Edit: I was (happily) wrong! I see now, they added it halfway though 2022 and I needed to go into settings and explicitly enable it. I’m a happy camper now! Thanks for the correction

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Premium absolutely does give you PIP on iOS. I took this screenshot just now 😊

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I see now, they added it halfway though 2022 and I needed to go into settings and explicitly enable it. I’m a happy camper now!

Thank you for the correction.

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