Every time I try to playback videos in safari I cannot find a setting to choose the resolution. To make things even worse all the videos are always playing in a very low quality (360p by the looks of it). This happens both on WiFi and cellular on all the websites. I’ve attached an example and it’s visible there are no resolution or quality settings available. I’m running the latest iOS build on iPhone 11.
iPhone 11, iOS 13
Hi sloggiz,
Thanks for posting your question. I understand you have a concern about video resolution when playing videos in Safari.
You are correct that there's not a setting to change a video's resolution within Safari, but there may be some steps you can try to help narrowing this down. Knowing that the issue occurs on both cellular and Wi-Fi and that you're running iOS 13.3 is helpful.
I recommend trying video playback on the same websites using a different browser. When you try this, how does it look?
Also, how does video in Safari look if you rotate your display? If the screen doesn't rotate on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
Feel free to reply back with an update.
Cheers.
Hey, Sarah!
Thanks for your reply. I’ve just tried playing couple of videos (on the same website and couple of different ones) via chrome and it’s exactly the same video player: no resolution options and the quality was also around 360-480p. Autorotate works fine both in safari and chrome but it doesn’t make the video resolution higher. So it seems like built-in iOS web video player simply doesn’t have a resolution control. Do you know if it’s possible to pass this question to Apple devs? I think this feature would be highly appreciated by many iOS users!
Cheers,
Stepan
Hello sloggiz,
We appreciate the update! If you'd like to submit feedback about controls for video resolution, you can do so here: Product Feedback
Take care.
Video playback resolution setting in Safari
