(Samsung Galaxy S9+) Youtube enters picture-in-picture for no reason

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I've had my Galaxy S9+ for about 5 months with no issues. Recently, though, every time I watch a youtube video it will enter picture-in-picture mode over and over again, no matter how many times I exit the mode. The full-screen app will either be the last app I had open or the home screen. It happens both when I'm holding my phone and when it's sitting flat on a table, so it's not likely a gesture triggering it. It has never been exposed to water, but has been dropped small distances a few times while in an otterbox.

I've had issues in other apps, too, like the keyboard disappearing randomly and videos pausing, always multiple times in a row. I haven't found any other cases of this on Google. Does anyone know what it could be?

All answers are appreciated, thank you.

Edit: In case it helps, it's an SM-965F/DS with an Exynos processor
 
Solution
IOBit seem to be good at making software that causes more problems than its worth. Only security program I have on phone is from Bitdefender, I trust them a little more.

Colif

Win 11 Master
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S9+ water resistant anyway so water shouldn't be a factor

have you tried restarting phone?
Reboot always fixes things for me. If not maybe clear you app cache.
https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyS9/comments/9fh9x8/youtube_keeps_entering_picture_in_picture_mode/

looks very specific to the S9 since the person above complaining about same thing. Have you run samsung apps program and checked if any updates? or clear cache as suggested above.
 
May 14, 2018
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Restarting and clearing the cache didn't fix it, but I think I've found the problem. I downloaded some security software recently from IOBit, and when I uninstalled it all of the problems went away. No idea why it was doing that. Thank you for your response, though, Colif!