Autoplay muted video iOS 11.2

Question

I am currently working on a page with videos on it. Since iOS 11.2, it seems they disabled autoplay muted inlineplaying completely without a user gesture.

Has anyone experienced this issue too?

This all wouldn't be such a mess if there would be a possibilty to check whether it is possible to playinline or not. But like this it results in a new hack by UA sniffing.

Edit: I have seen that I missed something. Autoplay is working, but trying to video.play() a muted inline video is not working anymore.

Answer 1

Just turn off the "Low Power Mode" ;)

Answer 2

Found a working solution thanks to the WebRTC repo (works in iOS 11.2.5):

Set the video's playsinline attribute to true.

References:

• https://github.com/webrtc/samples/issues/929#issuecomment-330816567
• https://webkit.org/blog/6784/new-video-policies-for-ios/ (check the note about vendor prefixes)