How to disable autoplay for YouTube video in WKWebView?

Question

I have simple ViewController with WKWebView configured as follows:

webView.configuration.allowsInlineMediaPlayback = true
webView.configuration.mediaTypesRequiringUserActionForPlayback = .video

But right after loading a web page with YouTube video it starts to play automatically (and switching to full screen at the same time) without any user interaction which is required. How to disable autoplay?

Garwood

Note that, that property is only available from iOS10. For previous versions you should set configuration.requiresUserActionForMediaPlayback = true – Topple

Thanks, I've tried on latest stable version iOS 11.0 and seems like that flag ignored for YouTube pages. – Garwood

Answer 1

I also had same problem,YouTube vide was playing in full screen

webview.configuration.allowsInlineMediaPlayback = true

programmatically setting allowsInlineMediaPlayback value didn't work for me

You can avoid video switching fullscreen by enable inline playback for WKWebview.

Scabble

THIS DOESN'T WORK FOR IOS 13 ANYMORE! HELP! – Anis

Answer 2

Check the webView storyboard property Interaction for Audio Playback. Yes, I know, this is a question about video, but setting the Video Playback checkbox doesn't work, at least not on a target iOS 13 simulator!

Probably just check everything in that section - inline playback, interaction for Audio, interaction for Video. That's what I'm doing, although my test shows only Audio is necessary. I suspect this is a WKWebView bug and Apple will fix it so that Video properly works instead of Audio :-)

Slice