PIP missing in iOS 15

I upgraded to iOS 15 on my iPhone and iPad, and am not seeing the PIP option anymore. Has it moved?

The button still appears for me (and works). Is it missing for you?

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Yep, missing for me. Are you on iOS 15?

Yes that is on my 2021 12.9ʺ iPad with iOS 15. I just checked on my iPhone XS too — still there.

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And the “Hide Picture in Picture button” setting is off.

You’ll need to use the experimental video driver for PIP in iOS 15.

This could be temporary. We have to investigate.

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I’m having the same issue on both iPad and iPhone running ios 15. I’m running 22.1709

Yes this is known. It is explained above.

For what it's worth, I lost the PIP button on the iPad app, running on my M1 MacBook Pro, when I updated the Channels app via the App Store, a couple of days ago. Of course I was able to rectify this immediately by turning on the experimental video driver in the app, as discussed here.

Just saying that in my case, iOS 15 wasn't involved, on this particular laptop I'm running Big Sur, still on macOS 11.2.3.

Can you turn on experimental with kiosk mode active? Or can it be forced from the server side to affected devices?

I don't believe so. You can disable Kiosk, change the setting, then re-enable Kiosk. But playback drivers/decoders are not able to be set from the server, IIRC.