

Also, some video apps don’t support AirPlay, including Netflix and Peacock, so you can’t use those to create a picture-in-picture session at all. Unless the larger video also supports picture-in-picture, you can’t flip it around with the smaller one, and if you need to use your phone or tablet for something else that requires audio or video, you’ll need to disable the AirPlay connection to your Apple TV. The AirPlay approach does have limitations. The AirPlay workaround lets you watch two live channels at the same time in apps like Hulu + Live TV. I was able to do the same with Hulu + Live TV. With YouTube TV, for instance, I was able to have one live channel playing in a small window via AirPlay, and another channel playing in a larger window via the native Apple TV app. This even works with two instances of the same app. You can AirPlay any video simply by mirroring your screen. Send a video to your TV via AirPlay, and you’ll see an option to shrink it down. You can then open any other app on your Apple TV and start playing video in a larger window. (This looks like a square with a little triangle underneath, and should appear once a video is playing on your iPhone or iPad.) Once the video starts playing on the big screen, you can shrink the video to a picture-in-picture window by tapping the remote, swiping up, and hitting the picture-in-picture icon. The recipient Mac with the camera will automatically accept the call, giving you a live video feed of what’s going on at the location of the. For any iOS app that supports AirPlay, send the video to your television by hitting the AirPlay icon. Grab an iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac that is setup to use FaceTime with the Apple ID you chose to autoaccept invites from, and initiate a FaceTime call with the target home Mac’s Apple ID.
