Unable to watch Netflix in a picture-in-picture mode on iPhone

I just confirmed it.

Changed plans from "Standard with ads" to "Standard" and it instantly started working on iPhone

Incredible Netflix doing this.

If there are ads, they want us to see them and not put them in a PiP and do something else. wow

I think we need to boycott Netflix at this point it’s so messed up what they’re doing. They keep making it harder and more expensive to watch like they aren’t making millions of dollars.

EXACTLY! I’ve been sharing accounts with family and have just now decided to get mine. I opted for the Basic plan (wt ads, I don’t care..have time to make a bathroom or snack run) BUT I realized some shows are now missing, and my PiP won't work! By the way, this is not stated anywhere in their contract. C’mon Netflix, that’s a lowball…

I think Apple should push back. 1-It’s not the same with Google Play; 2-Tgey messing with Apple’s brand

FYI It seems like the Netflix basic plan with advertisements does not allow for PIP.

I agree with the boycott idea honestly. I’m in college and a lil’ over 2 hours from home and now I have to 2-Step Verification to my mother, the account holder because it thinks I’m on vacation. And the T-Mobile plan ofc only covers the Ad version.

It won’t work with basic. No matter what you do. It automatically works when you choose the $15 plan or higher. I tried everything, but upgraded and it worked the second I swiped up on my screen

I just thought about this again, and maybe I’m describing the process incorrectly. I have an iPhone XR and it looks like you have an iPhone 8 so I’m not sure it works the same way on both models.

When I start a show in the Netflix app, it goes into landscape mode and plays that way automatically. When I say swipe up from the bottom of the screen, I am talking about the bottom in landscape mode, not the bottom in Portrait mode. When I swipe up, it is not a swipe up all the way off the screen. It’s a swipe about two thirds of the way up the screen and then I let go.

That is some dirty move from Netflix. They don’t even mention that the 'standard with ads' plan does not allow Picture in Picture. The constant price hikes and the degradation of the cheaper plans have me considering just cancelling all together.

I’m also replying to confirm I had this issue. Was on basic plan with Netflix (ads), just changed it to the $15 plan (from looking at these replies) and it worked immediately. WTH NETFLIX!!???!!?

It’s just meant a LOT less Netflix watching for me!! I hate ads!

This isn’t true because me and my husband both have the Netflix apps on our phones logged into the same account and I have standard with ads and he has a google pixel and I have iPhone and his does Picture in Picture and mine doesn’t

I’m sorry I wasn’t able to help. I wanted to show you a couple of screenshots of what I can do on my phone. You can’t see the image on the one screenshot. I think that is a Netflix thing that disallows the image being captured. This is from the Tom Hanks movie, A Man Called Otto. You can see the closed captioning here.

This shows the video is playing PIP.

This started when we joined t-mobile and the “perk” of choosing this phone provider was they’d pay our Netflix bill. We thought this was the best thing ever since we’d save $15/mo. All was well for a while and now not only is there no PiP, but when I went to watch Netflix on my TV yesterday, I got a pop up saying “Netflix is no longer supported streaming on this device”… which means we can only watch on our phones.

No more family movie night, just all of us with our heads in our phones separately now I guess. We’ve decided when our t-mobile plan is up, we are going back to AT&T or even Verizon.

connectingthedots wrote:

EXACTLY! I’ve been sharing accounts with family and have just now decided to get mine. I opted for the Basic plan (wt ads, I don’t care..have time to make a bathroom or snack run) BUT I realized some shows are now missing, and my PiP won't work! By the way, this is not stated anywhere in their contract. C’mon Netflix, that’s a lowball…

I think Apple should push back. 1-It’s not the same with Google Play; 2-Tgey messing with Apple’s brand

This really doesn’t have anything to do with Apple. Apple doesn’t make the decision to decide if it’s going to do this or not. There are other apps that don’t do it and I have the basic plan with Ads and I can go into the PiP mode with no issues as I can with other apps as well.