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Videos suddenly starting playing

Hello to all,


I had been having some issues with some videos I was watching on safari browser on my iphone and macbookpro.


Even if I stopped playing the videos by myself, minimized the safari window and taking my macbook to sleep mode, or locked my iPhone to go to sleep; the mackbook and my iPhone had suddenly started playing the videos I was watching just in the middle of the night, with me having touched nor manipulating the devices.


Does anyone knows why this happened and mostly how can I stop it from doing so? The first time when that happened to my macbook, my wife and I were scared since I have it connected to some speakers and the sound was really loud from the studio.


And then, again scared as ****, when my iPhone started talking in the middle of the night, and then I realized it started to continue playing the video I was watching before going to bed.


Thanks in advance to all that may help me stop this issues, and understand the reason why it happens.

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 13.3

Posted on Jun 2, 2023 5:33 PM

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Posted on Jun 13, 2024 5:44 PM

this is scary and weird. I cant even find where the video is coming from all my apps were closed. Video just started blaring while I’m sleeping and my phone was locked.

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Jun 22, 2024 8:15 PM in response to SravanKrA

Oh sure, one customer with no business affiliation is going to have a way to contact Google/Youtube, let alone a more productive conversation than Apple about why Apple’s phones are malfunctioning. It’s not a finger pointing thing, it’s between Apple and Youtube. At the end of the day though, any app at all should not have permission or be capable of just starting media remotely without user interaction. This would actually be a neat use case for turning old retired phones into media endpoints, but it is a bug as it stands.


let’s address the absolutely useless reply and willingness to engage your brain here. This sort of reflexatory response has been the corporate support go-to for way too long. 90% of Microsoft’s support replies are “did you reboot it, did you update?” And Apple hasn’t been doing much better in that regard unfortunately. Asking the customer to contact friggin google over an obvious bug that is between you two… yeah, send a check before expecting free work, even if it is impossible for the customer to do.


support really needs to get better these days. These sorts of off hand replies to paying customers just aren’t helpful

Jun 2, 2023 9:59 PM in response to koichi4873

If you are experiencing any difficulty with third-party apps or a specific website then please contact the app developer or site publisher/host directly. Here is how



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