Picture in Picture

Keep one camera floating in a corner of the screen while you watch a show on the Apple TV, work on your Mac or PC, or do anything else in your browser.

Not on every TV yet. Picture in Picture is on Apple TV, the Mac and Windows apps, and the web app in Chrome or Edge, but not on Fire TV, Google TV, or Roku yet.

On Apple TV

Open a camera full screen.

On the wall, highlight a camera and press Select.

Select Picture in Picture.

The buttons run down the right edge of the screen. Swipe down to the middle one, Picture in Picture, and press Select.

Don’t see the buttons? They fade after a few seconds. Press any button on the remote to bring them back.

Watch something else.

The camera shrinks into a corner and the Apple TV goes to its Home screen. Open any app; the camera stays on top while you watch.

Move it, close it, or go back to full screen.

Press TV to show the window’s controls: move it to another corner, return to full screen, or close it. Opening Video Wall again also closes the window and puts that camera back on the full screen.

The window’s size is set by Apple TV. It’s the same floating window every app uses, so there’s no size setting in Video Wall.

A doorbell ring moves the floating window to the doorbell’s camera by itself, usually within 10 seconds. It’s on by default, under Settings → Display → Doorbell ring opens the camera; see Doorbell pop-up.

On a Mac

Open a camera.

Click its tile on the wall, or press ⌘1 to ⌘9.

Click Picture in Picture in the toolbar.

macOS floats the camera in a corner, above every app and every Space. Hover it to move it, resize it, or send it back to the wall.

Want sound, or more than one? Click Open in New Window instead (⌥⌘O): the camera gets a window of its own, with a speaker button and a pin that keeps it on top. Open as many as you like.

A doorbell ring can open the doorbell’s camera in a floating window by itself; see Alerts in the Mac guide.

On a Windows PC

Open the camera in its own window.

Hover its tile on the wall and click Open in New Window, or select it and press Ctrl+Alt+O.

Hover the new window and click Float on Top.

The camera stays above every other app while you work. Drag it anywhere and resize it like any window. Stop Floating on Top undoes it.

The same hover buttons have Play Sound for this camera’s audio and Show in Wall to bring the main window back. Open as many cameras this way as you like.

A doorbell ring can open the doorbell’s camera in a floating window by itself, with sound; see Notifications in the Windows guide.

In a web browser

Open a camera full screen in Chrome or Edge.

Click its tile on the wall.

Click Pop out.

It’s with the other buttons on the full-screen camera. The browser asks once whether Video Wall may open a floating window, then the camera moves into one that stays above other apps even when the tab is in the background.

Safari and Firefox don’t offer this kind of window yet, so the button only appears in Chrome, Edge and other Chromium browsers.

Good to know

On the TV, one camera floats at a time. On a Mac or a Windows PC, floating windows can be as many as you like.
A Picture in Picture window has no sound, so it never talks over what you’re watching. A floating window on a Mac or a Windows PC can play sound.
It runs a couple of seconds behind live.
A battery camera on AUTO rests its live view to save power, and the window closes when it does. Wired cameras stay up.

Using Video Wall on your Mac →Using Video Wall on Windows →Full screen: zoom & switch cameras →Audio & sound →Streaming mode →

Still stuck? Tell us which TV and camera you’re on — we usually reply within a day.

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