Youtube videos not playing on standalone Safari browser iOS 8

Got an iPad 3 here running 8.1.2 and it's still not working. It's not just YouTube videos that it happens with. Any use of the HTML5 video tag when the browser is run in WebApp mode causes the problem.

See this test page for an example http://tests.mikeditum.co.uk/iPad/video_playback.html if you play the video when in normal safari it works fine, add it to the home screen and start it and you get the first frame only.

Oups, sorry, this test is old and i forget to uncomment "<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">"

It does not work for html5 video and iframe youtube video :/

tsss

Anyone found a workaround yet?

- trying on iPad 3 (IOS 8.1.1 - 8.1.2)

- safari works, same site "standalone" does not

- standard youtube iframe technique.

I also tried some youtube params like "origin=" and disabling JS-API, keyboard nav, but no luck.. i assume it is not the source that is the problem here. Has to do with standalone webkit.

That's correct,

standalone webkit is broken 😟

Apple should allow downgrades to IOS 7

Did anybody open a bug report for this? Or where can I do this?

Any news? Sad really, I'll post wherever I need to as well, could someone point me where to open a ticket? Thanks.

waiting on IOS 8.1.3 or 8.2 👿

This bug does not seem to be fixed soon, I don't see Apple eager to do it, I am not sure they actually really care about standalone web apps, I feel like we are sort of abandoned.

I got this problem, but with Google Maps as well. I managed to implement a workaround by means of using old Google Maps URLs and embed them using <object> tag instead of <iframe>. It works nicely in 8.1.1 and 8.1.2, and in iOS 7 as well.

So, again, something that worked normally gets screwed with a new update. This applies in this case both to iOS and Google, of course.

Good luck, developers!

Just updated to 8.1.3 and still having the same issue on my end. It's happening with any video as mentioned earlier (vimeo, youtube, etc.).

Has anyone found any type of work around that doesn't involve using the Safari browser?

still the same problems with videos under ios 8.1.3 and i think, that webpage rendering is slower than with 8.1.2 👿

Am very upset over all this. All web-app 'homescreen' (iframe embedded) videos have ceased to play.

...Same situation, start button is pressed, content does not load/play, just loops in loading. I have tried every conceivable workaround, nothing works. Youtube, Vimeo, self hosted, its all the same situation, no playback in stand alone. Content does play via the mobile browser but not in the standalone. Must be some sort of webkit issue. I am shocked that this bug/issue has not been addressed for so long. I know that I can not be alone in my anger in regards to this issue. I am assisting in development of a commercial site that depends on its web-app content functioning properly. We are all very disappointed in Apple and it's release of a very buggy ios 8. But what is worse is the fact that this issue has persisted for so long. Kind of like that pixelated, blurry icon issue that hung around for years between Snow Leopard to Mavericks. It took years, Years for them to fix that. I truly hope that this is not a repeat of that scenario. People are losing business over this 'bug". Let's get all of this together soon.

FYI, there is a discussion about this on the Apple Developer forums too ... also with no solution just yet, if someone posts a solution there, ill share it here. I am still trying to fix this as well. I am VERY surprised and disappointed that Apple has not addressed this yet. If it is an issue that YouTube and Vimeo need to address in their iframe embed codes, then Apple should send them instruct asap.

Thank you for the update. I am on the developer forum also under a different name. I hope that a solution can be found soon. part of our our UX is affected by this ongoing issue. I wish developers were better update by apple in regards to these kinds of os issues, especially one as blatant as this one. I have viewed threads on vimeo and google about this same os bug issue. It's super widespread.

Hi there,

same problem on our side :-/ it's not just about embedding videos, but behavior of all IFRAMEs are different - compared to iOS 7.

This "bug" or "feature" limiting our application drastically.

Example: now, if you are using IFRAME in content of webview it become full-screen right after webview is loaded, which is unwanted.

Thanks for any advice how to embed iframe in webview of iOS app.

This is outrageous from Apple. What are they doing?! I've submitted a bug report regarding this and they've closed it down as a duplicate of another report, which I can't see or have access to because it's not mine!?

Quite frankly, this has made myself and I'm sure many others such as dsrupt and modern artist VERY angry and frustrated.

I've been checking all of the threads on this eager for a solution and yet drawing dead. It's like waiting for a vaccine to an incurable bug... Feels like Apple aren't bothered about something they can't sell themselves.. Web Apps.

This has hugely dented my confidence in Apple in every aspect from sloppy iOS8 to lack of quick fixes.

If anyone at Apple reads this, check these out:

http://nterspace.com/youtubeissue.html

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25972600/ios-8-embedded-youtube-in-html-web-a pp-fails?lq=1

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25972362/why-html5-video-doesnt-play-in-ios-8 -webappwebview