Implementing Picture in Picture on iPhone in iOS 14

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Created Sep ’20

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I thought this would be a no brainer and automatically work when AVPlayerViewController was implemented.

Here is the implementation of AVPlayerViewController on iPad and Picture in Picture works perfectly:

Code Block - (void)finishCellSelectVideo:(id)videoPath {
    NSURL *videoURL = [[NSURL alloc] initFileURLWithPath:videoPath];
    AVPlayer *videoPlayer = [AVPlayer playerWithURL:videoURL];
    videoPlayer.allowsExternalPlayback = YES;
    AVPlayerViewController *videoPlayerViewController = [AVPlayerViewController new];
    videoPlayerViewController.delegate = self;
    videoPlayerViewController.player = videoPlayer;
   [self presentViewController:videoPlayerViewController animated:YES completion:nil];
   
    [videoPlayer play];
}

However, with this same code Picture in Picture doesn't work on the iPhone in iOS 14. Does this code only work on iPad? Any clues as to what I am doing wrong with the iPhone code?

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HelveticaLight OP

Sep ’20

Same problem here.
Same code works on iPad device&simulator, but on iPhone device&simulator 'isPictureInPicturePossible' returns false.
Same iOS 14 iPhone 11 Netflix PiP works just fine.

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inayabarb OP

Oct ’20

Im having the same issue, isPictureInPicturePossible always returns false in all iOS 14 simulators. Im using Xcode 12.0.1

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agungs OP

Jun ’21

Same here, any solution

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