--- title: Arc-like automatic picture-in-picture in Chromium description: A Chromium flag now brings Arc-style automatic picture-in-picture to Chrome and Edge. Chrome 142 introduced the browser-initiated-automatic-picture-in-picture... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/arc-like-automatic-picture-in-picture-in-chromium-umvv4lnbu twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Arc-like automatic picture-in-picture in Chromium | daily.dev og:description: A Chromium flag now brings Arc-style automatic picture-in-picture to Chrome and Edge. Chrome 142 introduced the browser-initiated-automatic-picture-in-picture... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/arc-like-automatic-picture-in-picture-in-chromium-umvv4lnbu og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/UmVv4lNBu.png og:image:alt: Arc-like automatic picture-in-picture in Chromium og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Arc-like automatic picture-in-picture in Chromium **[Dave Rupert](https://daily.dev/sources/daverupert)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A Chromium flag now brings Arc-style automatic picture-in-picture to Chrome and Edge. Chrome 142 introduced the browser-initiated-automatic-picture-in-picture flag, which pops a video into a floating window when you switch tabs and restores it when you come back. The same flag is now available in mainline Edge 156. The author mentioned the flag to Greg Whitworth, and the next week it showed up in Canary. The feature still lacks Arc's physics-based swipe and pinch-to-resize animations, but the core behavior works. Enable it via about://flags#browser-initiated-automatic-picture-in-picture. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How do I enable automatic picture-in-picture in Chrome or Edge like Arc browser had? Enable the browser-initiated-automatic-picture-in-picture flag by navigating to about://flags#browser-initiated-automatic-picture-in-picture. This flag, introduced in Chrome 142, makes videos automatically pop into a floating picture-in-picture window when you switch tabs and return to the player area when you switch back, matching how Arc browser's automatic PiP worked. _daily.dev readers chasing Arc's old auto-PiP flow can track which Chromium flags ship it next._ ### Is automatic picture-in-picture available in Microsoft Edge? Yes, it is available in mainline Edge 156. The feature, based on the same Chromium flag found in Chrome 142, was pushed into Edge Canary within a week after being raised internally with Edge engineer Greg Whitworth, and then released to the mainline version. _developers tracking Edge feature parity with Chrome can watch for flags like this reaching mainline releases on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Enter video Picture-in-Picture automatically on more sites](https://daily.dev/posts/enter-video-picture-in-picture-automatically-on-more-sites-zc5eahtrd) · Chrome Developers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Chrome takes on AI browsers with tighter Gemini integration, agentic features for autonomous tasks](https://daily.dev/posts/chrome-takes-on-ai-browsers-with-tighter-gemini-integration-agentic-features-for-autonomous-tasks-qcbpnnfam) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Creating Web Widgets Using the Document Picture-in-Picture API](https://daily.dev/posts/creating-web-widgets-using-the-document-picture-in-picture-api-cknshso6s) · CSS-Tricks · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [Chrome 145 adds Experimental Support for Vertical Tabs](https://daily.dev/posts/chrome-145-adds-experimental-support-for-vertical-tabs-63zosvvic) · Bram.us · 66 upvotes · 7 comments - [I hated using Google Chrome until a tiny adjustment changed everything](https://daily.dev/posts/i-hated-using-google-chrome-until-a-tiny-adjustment-changed-everything-26cdolxia) · XDA Developers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#google-chrome](https://daily.dev/tags/google-chrome), [#chromium](https://daily.dev/tags/chromium), [#microsoft-edge](https://daily.dev/tags/microsoft-edge) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/arc-like-automatic-picture-in-picture-in-chromium-umvv4lnbu) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Arc-like automatic picture-in-picture in Chromium","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/arc-like-automatic-picture-in-picture-in-chromium-umvv4lnbu","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/arc-like-automatic-picture-in-picture-in-chromium-umvv4lnbu"},"datePublished":"2026-10-26T15:36:03.790Z","dateModified":"2026-10-26T15:36:29.543Z","description":"A Chromium flag now brings Arc-style automatic picture-in-picture to Chrome and Edge. 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