Audio does not play on iOS 17 Beta about webamp

[captbaritone]

I've been able to get a minimal repro and it like this is a bug in WebKit.

Reported it here and did my own little write up here.

Also, this is very similar to a previous WebKit bug that affected us in #966.

[captbaritone]

Same! 17.1 seems to fix it. Closing

[captbaritone]

Connected the debugger to my phone. No console error, no obvious errors fetching the mp3 files

My current guess: There's been some change that's trying to make it harder for sites to auto-play audio, and the tricks we play to trigger audio are getting interpreted as auto-play

[captbaritone]

I've upgraded to Beta 5c and it's still broken.

[captbaritone]

Upgraded to Beta 6 and it's still broken. I did notice that according the the lock screen media status, it's actively playing (time is moving forward, and the track is selected):

[chrisweb]

what is weird, is that I can't reproduce this bug in iOS 17.0.0 (using the Xcode simulator), but I have the bug on my iPad which has iOS 17.0.3... I mention this because you said in your note that "the initial release of iOS 17 does not seem to include the fix"

[chrisweb]

@captbaritone iOS 17.1 just released and it fixes the safari bug 🙂