Video streaming issue with safari & IOS 11

Hi. This seems to be working for me.

Is this a particular site, or any site?

Does it work normally on Vimeo, say?

Have you tried restarting your devices? Power off, not just sleep. It's important to do this after an iOS update.

Go to

Settings - safari - advanced - website data - remove all website data.

Before check at app store if everything is updated.

Just let me know if it helped.

Try streaming with Puffin or Aloha bowser in the meantime. Good luck

i’ve started using puffin browser and waiting for the fix

I am noticing this too with sites that had worked “for years“ without problems. Now with iOS 11 I am getting the strange behavior you are describing. Suddenly repeating scenes. Sometimes the symptom goes away after several repetitions. Or I have to reload the page and player to continue the video. Clearing the cache does not help. My iPad has been freshly setup, it was not migrated from earlier versions. I am having this on multiple devices actually. Sites: ardmediathek.de, zdf.de, the official GermanTV media libraries.

I just wanted to make a short notice here that iOS 11.3 release did not improve these streaming issues. Videostreams still stop suddenly without any reason. I have five devices for testing, they all play the same live TV-Stream. Only apple devices with iOS 11 have trouble with some video streams. The devices I use for testing are iPad Pro iOS11.3, iPhone X iOS 11.3, iPad Mini 2 iOS10.23, Surface WinOS10, Dunno Androidxx. I place all units beside each other and let them stream the same video feed over the same Wifi. The first two in this list cannot stream continous video and do always stop after some time. This also happens if I only connect the iOS 11.3 devices for streaming.

I am still checking the other problem with rewinding 5 seconds and always playing the same section repeatedly with iOS 11.x devices. I will anounce here if I can confirm improvement or not. It is sad as in really sad.

NOT fixed in 11.3!

Reported bug via bugreport.apple.com 4 months ago, sent gigabytes of requested syslog and corevideo logs. Two months ago was the reported bug marked as duplicated and closed. And 11.3 has the same issune! Shame on Apple!

Same here... Updated to iOS11 today and since then all the videos I stream are looping. Doesn't matter which browser I use. Did a clear cache on Safari etc no luck.

Apple Support - Please enter this as a bug and get it fixed asap! Disappointing that you're pushing the update to people and its not been tested on something as common as Streaming Video!

Same here ... REALLY bad lag on any site with a video embed (examples: tv dot com and gamespot dot com), also advertisements that repeat and loop indefinitely after 10 secs, etc... this truly does make browsing the internet on your phone impossible, so fix this problem asap please!!

Yes, I notice this too. The giveaway is that the buffering indication in the progress bar doesn't advance beyond the current position in the video when the problem is present. I tried the same video on a 30 megabit connection with my iPhone and the buffering goes ahead about ten minutes, and the video plays perfectly.

I've been following this thread for quite some time since I had also been having issues with video streaming using IOS 11. I'm happy to say that recently the streaming began working properly for me. I'm now at IOS 11.2.5; I don't remember which IOS release actually fixed the problem. I apologize for not posting this earlier. I hope all of you will have the issue fixed as well.

Video looping occurring for me on multiple sites and multiple browsers too. I see it happens more often with sites that have some lag. Still would prefer the video to pause and resume rather than rewind as repeat endlessly. I can frequently reproduce the issue with any videos on kissanime.ac and on www.onlinemeded.com. Currently using iPhone X on iOS 11.2.6 using both Safari and Chrome browsers meaning it’s not a 3rd party problem but an Apple problem. Also happens in my iPad 4 mini. Apple, please fix this ridiculous issue already. It makes watching anything on my browsers completely impossible and extremely frustrating.

Same problem here. Especially videos longer than 5 minutes. Video will stop; Often pixelated; Then rewind and repeat over and over like a broken record in the same place. Prior to iOS 11, video streaming was excellent on all my iOS devices.

This bug continues now 5+ months into the initial iOS 11 release. No update since then has fixed this terrible video streaming problem that persists on several popular video content websites—such as MSNBC for example (just in case Apple cares to listen here and needs a test sample). Same video problem across all my mobile devices—on iPad Air, iPhone 6, and now even my new $$$$$ iPhone X.

Outrageous.