Tweetbot (subscription), Tapbots’ Twitter client, has been updated on iOS with a cool idea: enable the system’s picture-in-picture mode for videos. This is useful for keeping tabs on a video while playing the rest of your timeline in the app, or even while doing anything else on your iPhone or iPad.
Picture-in-picture mode will automatically activate if a video is playing in full screen and you exit Tweetbot. This is the default behavior of this function, but it does not allow it to be activated in the app. To stay in the app, the developers added a dedicated icon in the top right corner of the video, even if it’s playing in the timeline.
It’s smart and it’s a function that the official Twitter client already offered, but with a homemade picture-in-picture mode, unable to exit the app. On the side of third-party customers, Aviary had taken the lead by integrating the iOS mode, however there is nothing like it in the current version of Twitterrific.
Coming back to Tweetbot, this update also adds a dark mode with more contrast, where the text is white on black instead of a light gray. Three new spring icons are also available, with a new shape for the variant of the blue bird used by the app.
Tweetbot is a free app to download, but that goes into read-only mode after seven days if you don’t pay for the billed subscription $ 0.99 per month or € 6.49 per year. Its interface is not translated into French and the app requires iOS 14.
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