There is no chance to get autoplay working in mobile browsers. Android and iOS doesn’t allow it and personally I think that is a feasible confinement! Imagine every second website you will open plays and ugly sound at start! But you can make a little hack, so that the user will not remark that he … Read more
edit adding a “hacky” solution: Basically what the policy means is that a user must interact with the site before audio can play. with this assumption, we can autoplay video with sound in two ways: the first one, and the fairest one to the user, is to create a landing page when in it he … Read more
autoplay will only work if you specify it as muted by default, like this. <video autoplay muted> <source src=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50607588/video.mp4″ type=”video/mp4″></source> </video> Don’t worry, users will be able to unmute the video as part of the html5 video element.
Does playsinline attribute help? Here’s what I have: <video autoplay loop muted playsinline class=”video-background “> <source src=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43570460/videos/intro-video3.mp4″ type=”video/mp4”> </video> See the comment on playsinline here: https://webkit.org/blog/6784/new-video-policies-for-ios/
It can’t be done. For various reasons (including, but not limited to data usage), Apple doesn’t allow auto-playing of videos. See the accepted answer to this question.