Youtube videos not playing on standalone Safari browser iOS 8

I Agree with Harry, Ian surprised why Apple is not doing anything, people's

confidence on Apple products is going down.

i am using iPad 3 and upgraded to 8.1.3, after that YouTube is neither working on stand alone app nor in Safari.

hope to hear some good news soon.

I just tried this with 8.2 and still nada. So sad. 😟 Booooo.

Perhaps it will work on the $17,000 gold iWatch?

e

This is not just a video problem. All use of iFrames in standalone web app mode now fails on iOS Safari. What is happening is that all touch events are blocked in iFrames, so you cannot get any responses, click on links, scroll etc. We produce an app for viewing extensive documentation offline on the iPad and this makes offline mode completely useless. It works perfectly on Android tablets, by the way. Just saying... 👿

Any response from Apple Support on this? What is the status of this reported issue? It's more than a year later now...

breakbild wrote:

Any response from Apple Support on this? What is the status of this reported issue? It's more than a year later now...

Did you report it to Apple Technical Support? They are not reading here. Nor will they post. This is a user-to-user technical support forum. See the Contact Us link at the bottom right of every page for information on how to contact Apple directly.

Problem is finally solved with iOS 8.3 😀

Thanks Apple!

True, however for me there is another bug now. I have a youtube iframe embedded into my mobile index page. When this page begins to load in my web app it auto opens the youtube app now. The index of my mobile page never fully loads or displays. no matter how many times I relaunch the web app the youtube app opens in a redirect. This happens only with embedded youtube iframe content. Vimeo and local embedded videos play fine now via the web app.

We upgraded to iOS v 8.3 today and still seeing the Youtube videos failing to play on V4 iPad (model: MD510LL/A)

Which model of iPad are you testing with?

FYI, in the past our V2 iPad didn't have an issue with the Youtube embedded videos and still doesn't. But the later model versions of iPads did have an issue and still do.

CUrrently using first version ipad air 2, standard model non 4g. Embedded youtube doesnt play but i stead redirects the page to the i stalled youtube app. Very weird.

I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing. If anything iOs 8.3 makes the problem worse (see modern artist's) response.

Agreed. I'm seeing the same behaviour. This surely isn't deliberate?

Come on Apple and fix this issue!

Sorry for the late reply I have been engaged in my art project. Okay everyone here is the fix. All that I ask is that if you like, please credit me as the author of this fix post. Copy the following fix information and populate worldwide. Together we can get the word out and help developers out there who have been tearing their hair out over this madness.

In your embed code you want to change the string to reject cookies. This is a workaround that will undo the bug in ios 8.3 that seems to redirect embedded youtube content to the standalone player (ios). It's quite a simple workaround but nonetheless it works a dream and stops the ol' nasty bug from ruining your user experience and that's what it's all about. Making for beautiful user experiences for all of the kids of the world.

(EXAMPLE)

*Your embed:

<iframe width="760" height="570" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ch2Dw7lMg_w" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

*To look like this:

<iframe width="760" height="570" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/ch2Dw7lMg_w" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

All should be good to go lads. Hope it helps and your web apps will run with glee and total smiles again.

Oi!

PLEASANT

www.pleasantdesigns.org

www.pleasantart.com

Indeed there is glee at this desk!

I was just about to recommend the workaround of "delete the YouTube app" when your reply popped up.

You've just made several dozen people at my customer extremely happy.

Next time you're in London I would love to buy you a delicious beer! (Maybe I can throw some design work your way - will certainly bear you in mind)

Oliver

Cheers Oliver!

Hoped it helped and continues to work swell for everyone else too!

Kindest regards,

PLEASANT

🙂

Hi All,

I tried the youtube-nocookie approach and still do not have any luck.

Is there any other factors that need to be accounted for?

viewing the video embed via mobile safari on a website.

Thanks!

Mark