No sound from YouTube video when iOS on silent

[Loboboboboboo]

It is normal for sound to play when playing YouTube videos in browsers or in apps when the phone is on silent - however this doesn't happen in the inappbrowser, as such I'm needing to add a warning instructing users if they hear no sound to un-mute the phone - please can there be an option to allow audio from the inappbrowser even when the phone is on silent.

[janpio]

What platform are you talking about?

[Loboboboboboo]

Phonegap - iPhone 6 - iOS 11.4.1

[janpio]

What version of Cordova are you using? What version of Cordovs-iOS? What version of the plugin?
Do you have a simple that can reproduce the behavior you describe?

[Loboboboboboo]

• Cordova 7.1.0
• engine name="ios" spec="~4.5.4"
• cordova-plugin-inappbrowser 3.0.0

Simple example being linking to a html file containing just this:

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/C0DPdy98e4c" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe>

The code triggering that being:

window.open('html page url, '_blank', 'location=no)

[Loboboboboboo]

Is this a known thing that happens generally or is it a bug in my setup?

[janpio]

I don't know. Did you find anything in the documentation?

[Loboboboboboo]

Nope - I presumed it was just a feature that was lacking but based off your questions about my specific setup you gave me some doubts..

[janpio]

InAppBrowser is a plugin for Cordova, that enables users to show websites in another "window" in their app. This is done by creating a native container that holds a webview and some navigation UI. Maybe the webview can be configured to play sounds even when the device is on silent, and just isn't. My questions were just to understand all the specifics of the problem.

[Loboboboboboo]

Yeah, fair enough, and thanks for helping! Hopefully this can be configured some way..

[janpio]

If I had the time I would now research how this plugin creates the webview, search for some documentation on that from Apple and see if there maybe is some option to configure that.

[ternblom]

Hello,

You can fix this using this plugin https://github.com/EddyVerbruggen/cordova-plugin-backgroundaudio

I had the same problem and this plugin take care of everything.