uiwebview Video cannot be played in IOS 12.2

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iOS 12.2 real machine can not play the video in html5 loaded by UIWebView, link url http://community.cqliving.com/h5/info/detail/512.html?cid=512&isOpenApp=&f=10, other versions can play video

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@maddy no it wasn't, UIWebView still exists today, and even now WKWebView doesn't have all of the functionality of UIWebView — 1800 INFORMATION, May 02 '19 at 03:45

Sateesh Pasala · Answer 1 · 2019-06-24T11:45:22.050

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Try including these two lines

webView.allowsInlineMediaPlayback = YES;
webView.mediaPlaybackRequiresUserAction = NO;

These lines solved my issue which is occurring in iOS 12.2

edited Jun 24 '19 at 11:45

answered May 15 '19 at 09:49

Sateesh Pasala

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When i try to do this in swift i get "Cannot assign to immutable expression of type 'Bool?" – Sealer_05 Jun 20 '19 at 03:26

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered May 02 '19 at 03:50

Is it embedded using UIWebView or WKWebView or similar?

Try setting mediaPlaybackRequiresUserAction to YES for the webview. I'm seeing the same issue (UIWebView and WKWebView both) in iOS 12.2. Works fine in iOS 12.1 and earlier.

When debugging, you see this error in safari console:

Unhandled Promise Rejection: NotAllowedError: The request is not allowed by the user agent or the platform in the current context, possibly because the user denied permission

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiwebview/1617954-mediaplaybackrequiresuseraction?language=objc

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkit/wkwebviewconfiguration/1614727-mediaplaybackrequiresuseraction?language=objc

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Video from local storage not playing in WebView (Xamarin.Forms) after latest iOS update (12.2)

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered May 10 '19 at 11:39

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mediaPlaybackRequiresUserAction = NO; look：https://www.jianshu.com/p/d3f326dae445

answered May 10 '19 at 11:39

Jayxiang

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Yes I think this is the same as what I had seen – 1800 INFORMATION May 14 '19 at 00:00
When i try to do this in swift i get "Cannot assign to immutable expression of type 'Bool?" – Sealer_05 Jun 20 '19 at 03:25

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 24 '19 at 02:28

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You will need to enable insecure content loading in your app. Otherwise if you would not like to do that you can create a mirror of the video on a secure server.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/30732693 see here for more info.

answered Apr 24 '19 at 02:28

Brandon Stillitano

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Thank you ! http://community.cqliving.com/h5/info/detail/512.html?cid=512&isOpenApp=&f=10 The video in h5 webpage cannot be played. in IOS 12.2 Other version Can Played – gkh Apr 24 '19 at 02:36

uiwebview Video cannot be played in IOS 12.2

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