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Hi Alexander

I do not think it is a DW or Swift issue. Can you share the actual and precise rendered markup? There can be subtle things causing 

Things that can cause videos to not autoplay on iOS:

• iOS 'Battery saver' is on - will prevent autoplay videos
• 'Wrong' mp4 codec - or webm files. The video has to be encoded to meet some Safari standards. Try uploading the video to Vimeo or Youtube to see if that fixes the issue
• Video-tag is missing 'muted' and 'playsinline' attributes (these are standard Swift)

BR Nicolai

Hi Alexander

I do not think it is a DW or Swift issue. Can you share the actual and precise rendered markup? There can be subtle things causing 

Things that can cause videos to not autoplay on iOS:

• iOS 'Battery saver' is on - will prevent autoplay videos
• 'Wrong' mp4 codec - or webm files. The video has to be encoded to meet some Safari standards. Try uploading the video to Vimeo or Youtube to see if that fixes the issue
• Video-tag is missing 'muted' and 'playsinline' attributes (these are standard Swift)

BR Nicolai

Hi Nicolai,

We are using the standard template "Swift_ProductDetailsImage.cshtml" which again are using "Components/VideoPlayer.cshtml". We have not changed anything in these templates, beside updating these two files from newer swift versions. They output the following code:

Code inside "#document"

Feel free to check out the code with inspect tool here if you want :)

Im guessing that "plyr" is a thrid party solution used by Swift. 

iOS really do not want autoplay to happen - especially on things not in viewport and with sound.

It has to be a muted video for once. Since this is a Youtube, for the embed URL try adding the mute option or add &muted=1 to the embed URL.

I was able to make it work with doing a few changes inside of "VideoPlayer.cshtml".

Removed "iosNative: true" and added "player.config.playsinline = false"