‘Apple TV gets four-way sports streaming picture-in-picture mode with iOS 16.5’

Once iOS 16.5 is officially released, the Apple TV app may get an option to activate a picture-in-picture mode in which four windows appear simultaneously. This seems to be intended to allow you to watch up to four sports streams simultaneously on one screen.

According to Steve Moser from the website MacRumors, iOS 16.5 Beta 1 code contains certain changes, including a ‘multiview grid’ for the Apple TV app so that users can watch up to four simultaneous streams at the same time. Users must delete a ‘game’ to add another.

This would be an extension of the existing picture-in-picture mode supported by Apple TV. According to 9to5Mac There has been code in iOS for a multiview option for some time, but the latest beta version contains more references. There are already apps for tvOS that support such a four-way picture-in-picture mode, such as those from ESPN and Fubo.

This expansion will be interesting for Apple in the United States, because the company owns the broadcast rights for Major League Soccer and Friday Night Baseball. Matches can be watched via the Apple TV app. If the new feature is actually released and is part of iOS 16.5, it seems to be limited to sports streams and the Apple TV app.