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IOS 7 won't play YouTube videos?

Since updating my iPad with retina display to iOS7 the only issue that I have had is that I seem unable to play YouTube videos on my device. Other videos work, but anything from YouTube just sits and tries to load and never plays. Any ideas?

iPad (4th gen) Wi-Fi, iOS 7

Posted on Sep 23, 2013 10:54 AM

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Posted on Sep 29, 2013 10:33 AM

My router is an Apple AirPort Extreme. This issue only started after updating to iOS 7.


This only related to iOS 7 and embedded YouTube videos. The YouTube app works fine, although a bit slow to load.

YouTube links in Safari open in the YouTube app. Only embedded videos do not appear in Safari.

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Oct 29, 2013 4:24 AM in response to RavenHeart518

I have the same issue with IOS7 and embedded YouTube videos. I have done resets and restore. I have cleared the cookies in Safari in settings. NOTHING has corrected this. I use a Time Machine and have a plenty fast Brighthouse Road Runner internet connection. These videos worked perfectly with my Ipad Mini with IOS6. My Iphone 4 has also lost it's ability to audibly notify me when I receive an email. It also freezes up trying to send texts. Yesterday it took 6 hours to get a voicemail. I have also done reset and restore on it. On the mini if I am reading a thread on The Gear Page (the worlds largest musician website) and it has an embedded video if I hit the "quote" button and then go backwards for some odd reason the embedded video then shows up as it ALWAYS used to with IOS6 WITHOUT hitting the "quote" button.

I have spent countless hours with Apple's senior techs only to be told "we have discovered that IOS7 isn't being very frindly to Iphone 4 users" and they "never heard of the embedded YouTube issues".DON'T THEY READ THEIR OWN SITE HERE!!! Perhaps they need to correct these WELL REPORTED issues rather than send me merchandising propaganda for the new Ipad Air and retina Ipad mini. Hopefully the lesson learned by Apple here would be to ALWAYS offer the old operating system to any client that has a registered Apple porduct in their database. My phone is ruined because of IOS7.

IOS 7 won't play YouTube videos?

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