The Channels live TV app now supports PiP on iPhone and Apple TVWhat you need to know
Channels for iPhone and Apple TV now supports picture-in-picture.
PiP "just works."
Channels has long been a popular app for cable cutters who want to be able to enjoy live TV content on their iPhones and Apple TVs, but there has always been on feature request above all – support for picture-in-picture. As of the latest update, that's now available to all.
Announced via blog post, the new update adds picture-in-picture support that "just works" the way users would expect it to, despite Channels using its own media player rather than Apple's native solution.
PIP is very tricky. It requires the native video player, but we don't use the native video player. Luckily, thanks to the work we have been pursuing for a year to modernize our playback engine, we've been able to bridge our video player and the native PIP player.
This means that PIP now Just Works. It works without the need for transcoding, without any tricks, and without a DVR server require...
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The Channels live TV app now supports PiP on iPhone and Apple TV
