How to stop WKWebView from autoplaying HTML5 videos?

Question

My attempt was to set webView.configuration.mediaTypesRequiringUserActionForPlayback = .video

However, this does not work and after searching Google I was not able to find a workaround.

webView is an IBOutlet with a custom WKWebView class as follows:

import UIKit
import WebKit

class ScrollWebView: WKWebView {


  required init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
    super.init(coder: aDecoder)
    self.configuration.allowsInlineMediaPlayback = true
    self.configuration.mediaTypesRequiringUserActionForPlayback = .all
  }
}

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Sep 25 '18 at 08:27

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Your problem is that mediaTypesRequiringUserActionForPlayback is not a boolean. It's of type WKAudiovisualMediaTypes. Here is the Apple Documentation:

Try this:

webView.configuration.mediaTypesRequiringUserActionForPlayback = .video

edited Sep 25 '18 at 08:27

Kerberos

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answered Nov 11 '17 at 01:45

nighttalker

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Sorry, I pasted the wrong property name. Also, setting mediaTypesRequiringUserActionForPlayback to .video still does not work. As such, I've edited the question. – Babiker Nov 11 '17 at 02:01

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 11 '17 at 05:45

After further research I realized that WKWebView cannot be configure nor created to a great extent in Storyboard or with Interface Builder. It must be created programatically. Reference: WKWebView in Interface Builder

Configuration can be done at object creation time.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 01 '20 at 19:19

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It is possible to set these in a Storyboard:

answered Apr 01 '20 at 19:19

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How to stop WKWebView from autoplaying HTML5 videos?

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