🐛 meetings not working on latest chrome on iOS

[a-tokyo]

Expected behavior

Latest chrome on iOS should be able to smoothly host meetings

Describe the bug (unexpected behavior)

Meetings do not work on latest chrome on latest iOS.

Steps to reproduce

Go to any meeting room using chrome on iOS.

Screenshots

System information

• Device: iPhone 7
• OS, version: iOS 14.4
• Browser, version: chrome 87 latest - attached exact version as a screenshot

Additional context

Works smoothly on Safari
Room has signaling_impl="ws"

[kompfner]

For now we aren't yet supporting non-Safari usage on iOS.

But you're totally right that the previous technical limitation preventing us from making calls in a WKWebView should've been lifted in the most recent versions of iOS! It's on our roadmap to see if we can enable this and test on various browsers—thanks for your patience!

Also, yes, it appears that our error message in this case is quite misleading. Apologies!

[timsaval]

@kompfner Interesting! Would be very useful to get this fixed. Please give us a rough time estimate for fixing these. 🚀

[a-tokyo]

@kompfner Thanks for the response! We will be waiting for this!

[a-tokyo]

Update: Still not working, but now it shows this message: (Refreshing doesn't trigger the permissions request popup.)

[kompfner]

Hmm...I take it that when you go to Settings -> Chrome, you do see that Chrome has Camera and Microphone permissions?

[a-tokyo]

@kompfner I can see the camera and mic in settings, they are enabled. Chrome still shows the message above when joining a daily meeting, even if all the permissions were granted. Sidenote: works perfectly on Safari.

[alexkunger]

it seems that Chrome <= 92 and Safari <= 11 don't work still
they have an error 'navigator.mediaDevices.addEventListener' is undefined
any chance this will get fixed?

[markbackman]

Daily calls run as expected on iOS in Chrome and Safari browsers. Calling supportedBrowser() is recommended as a way to ensure that a given browser and version is supported.

Supported browsers list: https://docs.daily.co/guides/how-daily-works/browsers.

The minimum version on iOS is 12.1. Note that Safari and Chrome on iOS run on the same engine, so both have a minimum version of 12.1. Why 12.1? WebRTC wasn't fully supported on iOS Safari until then.