What to know
- Android is preparing “Dock to top” and “Undock” controls for phone picture-in-picture.
- PiP side-stashing is already public; the new finding is the explicit top-docking action.
- SystemUIGoogle dp11.261030.003 contains both labels under phone-specific PiP resource keys.
Moving a picture-in-picture window out of your way is already part of Android. Our teardown of an Android beta build reveals labels for another way to position it: docking the window at the top, with a corresponding “Undock” action.
“Dock to top” gets a matching “Undock” action
The two new resource keys explicitly name phone PiP. One supplies the label “Dock to top,” identifying the intended docking position. The other supplies “Undock,” naming the action to release the window from its docked state.
The broader ability to stash a PiP window is already public. Google’s Android documentation describes dragging the window to the left or right edge, then tapping or dragging it back out. These new labels specifically point to top docking and a dedicated undocking action.
The strings establish the wording, rather than working or shipped behavior. What they leave open is how your window would look when docked at the top, including how much of it would remain visible.
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