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Reputation: 3

Youtube autoplay on mobile with WiFi

So I understand based on the Youtube API docs as well as a few related questions here on Stackoverflow that auto-play is not allowed for embedded media on Safari/Chrome on mobile devices. The rationale is to ensure unsolicited downloads don't happen over cellular networks. But if a user is on Chrome in a mobile device but is on Wi-Fi (which a lot of users are on typically), this restriction of disallowing autoplay seems to still exist via the Youtube iframe API. Why is this the case? Perhaps there is something I am missing. Appreciate any advice/pointers. I was hoping to achieve auto-play on mobile web if user is on WiFi.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 251

Answers (1)

Anuga
Anuga

Reputation: 2827

Actually it's not Youtube's Restrictions, it's (was) Apple's.

New Policies for iOS

You just need to add the correct html tag and attribute and it works on newer devices.

Upvotes: 0

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