Youtube iframe api allow="autoplay" Chrome 65

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user14188 picture user14188 · Jan 4, 2018 · Viewed 18.6k times · Source

Chrome 65, the current canary version, is blocking iframed youtube videos from auto playing with sound.

The latest changes to Chrome require the iframe to have allow="autoplay"

How do I go about adding allow="autoplay" to the youtube iframe api? I can't find it in any of the documentation.

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-policy-changes#iframe

A feature policy allows developers to selectively enable and disable use of various browser features and APIs. Once an origin has received autoplay permission, it can delegate that permission to cross-origin iframes with a new feature policy for autoplay. Note that autoplay is allowed by default on same-origin iframes.

Answer

François Beaufort picture François Beaufort · Feb 12, 2018

The YouTube IFrame API has been recently updated to use allow=autoplay instead of gesture=media. It should now work as expected.

Sorry for the confusion.

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