Why won't sound play with YouTube video on my iPad

Double check the "mute" button just above the volume rocker switch on the side. I was having the same issue with imbedded video sound and discovered that this button had inadvertantly been switched off (orange dot showing). Hope this helps!

After trying to figure this out for a couple of months I just figured it out by accident. Everyone kept talking about the mute switch above the volume rocker but for me that button was set for screen lock rotation. I just went in to settings and changed that selection to mute button. I then made sure the button was not showing the red dot and tried to play a you tube video and it worked'. Woo hoo. Hope this helps.

Make sure sound is not muted (little bell)

Perform a "reset" on the device by pressing down and holding the home button and the sleep/wake button for up to 30secs. until you see a black screen with the Apple logo, then release.

Then test to see if it solved the problem.

I am also having this problem, and its confusing the crap out of me when I try to fix it. Between the general settings for "use side switch to:" and the sound settings for ringer and alerts and the lock sound option, I can not figure out the combination to get the sound to work normally. All of a sudden it just had no sound. I think I have tried all the options, changed all of them and there is still no sound, on anything. No Ipad sounds, no keyboard sounds, no video sound, nothing. When I push the volume button up, I get a box in the middle of the screen with a bell that says "sound effects" but there is no bar at the bottom of the box that would usually show the volume going up and down. I click the volume to go up a few times and it just shows me that bell box for sound effects. I have reset the Ipad, and that didn't help. What's even more strange is that in the last few weeks, it has had volume a few times, and then it just stops again. No damage has occurred, no water damage, or dropped at all. Please, someone give me clear step by step directions on how all the settings need to be set. Please?? Thanks.

I have this problem too and rebooting does not seem to help.

Any other solutions out there?

Thanks. This fixed it for me also. Guess the switch can mute sound even if you're using it for screen lock rotation.

Thanks, been killing me for some time now. Audio worked for some things, but not video from FB.

I am grateful, Diavonex....it was exactly the problem for me. I immediately fixed it because of your instruction.

My sincere thanks to you....

Deb

Thank you very much. I have been struggling with this problem for months and now can enjoy my iPad so much more. It was your common sense that got you there in the first place! Where was mine?

One answer I have not seen is to make sure the iPad's Bluetooth is not connected to an audio device nearby that is powered on but volume turned down. This will prevent Videos from producing sound from the ipad speaker.