I have an iPad Pro and ever since ios13 came out, YouTube won’t work on safari... when you try and play a video the YouTube screen goes pixelated and it comes up with “Safari cannot open the page because the address is invalid.”
works fine with Firefox and the YouTube app 🤔☹️
iPad Pro 10.5-inch, Wi-Fi
I think I found the problem... when we had the update, safari was automatically set to find the desktop version of the YouTube and other websites. Yet when I would go to YouTube, it automatically sent me to the mobile site. As a result of safari looking for the desktop version, it would say the mobile site had an invalid address. I went to settings, then to safari, and under the heading “settings for websites” click on “request desktop website”. Turn the setting to off, and you should be all set. Thanks to the other commenters who gave me the leads I needed to find this! Hope this works for you.
Apple and Adobe have had over 10 years to sort out the Flash Media player. No excuses there.
I knew the end of Adobe Flash Player was near, I just couldn't remember the exact date.
I thought it was going to end earlier in 2020, though.
@LotusPilot, @MichelPM
Exactly, Flash is legacy technology. I cannot recall the last time I encountered a web element that required Flash.
This talk about Adobe Flash Player for mobile devices is all irrelevant.
It is never going to ever happen and mainstream Adobe Flash Player will be a thing of the past by the end of next year.
This worked for me thanks for coming back and sharing.
thanks, it worked.
DPNJSN,
Thank you so much.
Yes! Brilliant! This work perfectly, thank you thank you!
In my case, when I click on a Youtube link in Safari on ios 13 the Youtube app opens with an all black screen. Can’t see any image, only hear the sound. If I close the Youtube app (swipe up) the sound continues to play. To stop the sound I also have to close Safari.
What is wrong with using a third party Web browser on your iPad?
I have never liked Safari, ever, on iOS OR macOS.
And I hate Google Chrome as Google doesn't need to mine anymore of my personal data than they already have throughout my entire computer life, using their data sucking browser.
The ONLY thing Google on my iOS devices and my Macs is Google Drive as the costs for data storage were too cheap to pass up!
I use Mozilla Firefox on both iOS devices and my Macs for many years!
I even use one other third party Web browser on my iPads for years, too!
While I am still using iOS 10.3.3 on my iPad Pro, I use the YouTube desktop Website version all the time and videos play fine on both that version of Safari and my version of Firefox.
Try long pressing on a YouTube video in Safari and choose open in a new tab and see what happens.
It is not work with m.youtube.com
It is not work. Thanks
nick904, thank you sooo much, switching off that option solved everything!
YouTube not working on Safari!
