Youtube Picture-in-Picture no longer works after March 21st Brave update (Android)

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Description of the issue:
Picture-in-Picture no longer works as before. Before, if you had a Youtube video playing in full screen, you could press the phone’s middle button (the square one) to move the video into a small screen and you could browse the phone (and even open another Brave window) as the video played.

Now, doing those same steps just minimizes Brave.

Brave Version( check About Brave):
1.76.81, Chromium 134.0.6998.166

Mobile Device details
Galaxy A54

Android 14: build/UP1A 231005.007

Additional Information:
I know Brave itself doesn’t have a Picture-in-Picture option in its menus, but if you go into the apps menu on the phone, and select Brave, there’s an option there to enable/disable PiP. (It’s enabled, btw).

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@ReyVGM it is important to look for topics before creating one. You would find open topics such as below where people from Brave have already responded.

Which would also include the Github link:

As well as yet another reply from Brave Support:

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Duplicate topic, known issue. Being worked on.