Avoiding pre-roll and mid-roll ads in many streaming video services on iPhone
One of the annoyances of modern life is that adverts have crept into video streaming services - yes, you can pay more to get an 'ad free' tier, but if you do that for everything you watch then life gets quite expensive. Happily, I have found that many video streaming services support picture in picture (don't worry, I'll explain) and therefore, when an advert does hit, either before or in the middle of a programme, you can swipe the video to a screen corner and at least do something else productive during the enforced 30 second or 90 second ad. For example, answering an email or text or browsing your favourite social network. Then, when the advert ends, a single tap restores full screen playback of your programme. To illustrate this, I'll use Disney+, though this also works for BBC iPlayer, Prime Video, YouTube, and, I'm sure, several others - you'll have to experiment! So I'm watching a programme full-screen: And the ad starts, so I swipe up to go home,...