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Video playback resolution setting in Safari

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Posted on Jan 23, 2020 9:01 AM

Hey, Sarah!

Thanks for your reply. I’ve just tried playing couple of videos (on the same website and couple of different ones) via chrome and it’s exactly the same video player: no resolution options and the quality was also around 360-480p. Autorotate works fine both in safari and chrome but it doesn’t make the video resolution higher. So it seems like built-in iOS web video player simply doesn’t have a resolution control. Do you know if it’s possible to pass this question to Apple devs? I think this feature would be highly appreciated by many iOS users!

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Jan 23, 2020 9:01 AM in response to rose_10

Jan 23, 2020 6:44 AM in response to sloggiz

Hi sloggiz,

Thanks for posting your question. I understand you have a concern about video resolution when playing videos in Safari.

You are correct that there's not a setting to change a video's resolution within Safari, but there may be some steps you can try to help narrowing this down. Knowing that the issue occurs on both cellular and Wi-Fi and that you're running iOS 13.3 is helpful.

I recommend trying video playback on the same websites using a different browser. When you try this, how does it look?

Also, how does video in Safari look if you rotate your display? If the screen doesn't rotate on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

Feel free to reply back with an update.

Jan 23, 2020 10:10 AM in response to sloggiz

Hello sloggiz,

We appreciate the update! If you'd like to submit feedback about controls for video resolution, you can do so here: Product Feedback

Tips & Tricks

Troubleshooting, how to speed up or slow down any video in safari on iphone / ipad.

Do you want to speed up or slow down video playback on a website where the feature isn’t supported? As long as you use Safari to browse the web on your iPhone or iPad, there’s a nifty Shortcuts workaround that you can use to adjust the video playback speed according to your liking.

Popular video streaming platforms like YouTube allow users to conveniently change the video playback speed from the player itself. Unfortunately, a lot of websites don’t support this feature and you may have noticed that you’re unable to change the speed of all the videos that you’re watching in Safari. Well, this particular iOS shortcut has managed to address this issue. You can install and use it to speed up or slow down pretty much any video within Safari.

The Shortcuts app has been really helpful in bringing features that aren’t natively available in iOS/iPadOS and this time is no different. Here, we’ll be taking a look at how you can use the Shortcuts app to speed up or slow down any video in Safari.

How to Speed Up or Slow Down Any Video in Safari with Shortcuts

For those who aren’t aware, the iOS Shortcuts app is pre-installed on devices running the latest versions of iOS and iPadOS. However, if you’re iPhone or iPad running an earlier version, you’ll need to download it from the App Store . Once you’re done, simply follow these steps:

That’s it. The video will resume playing at the speed you selected using the shortcut.

Note that you can speed up the video to a maximum of 2x, but you can only slow it down to 0.8x using this particular shortcut. In comparison, the YouTube player lets you slow videos down to 0.25x.

What makes this Shortcut unique is the fact that you can run it from the iOS share sheet. You don’t need to open the Shortcuts app at all, unlike several other shortcut actions. Hence, it feels like a feature that’s natively built into iOS rather than a third-party solution.

The Gallery section of the Shortcuts app is a home to several other handy shortcuts too. For example, you can install the Convert Burst to GIF shortcut to make a GIF from your burst photos . Apart from the Gallery, you also have access to hundreds of other user-created shortcuts as long as you’ve allowed the installation of untrusted shortcuts on your device . Shortcuts is a pretty handy app, so don’t miss some of the great tricks you can do with it .

Did you speed up or slow down video playback in Safari on your iPhone or iPad? What’s your take on this nifty shortcut? How often do you find this shortcut useful and on what websites do you need it? Do share your personal experiences and feel free to leave your valuable feedback in the comments section down below.

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How do you slow it down to less than .8?

I get the same “there are not videos” problem, looks like something broke

You are amazing!! Thanks for sharing this with me

Great information and I fix my issue for a long time

Thank you very much

I found it!! But it says there are no videos on the page even though there is a video playing. How to get around this error ? Is it because the video is embedded?

There’s no “Share Sheet Shortcuts” in iOS 14.6

Look for the “Share Sheet Shortcuts” or you can use the search bar and find the shortcut by typing in “Change Video Speed”.

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Pro Tip: How to control the iPad video player with keyboard commands

By Charlie Sorrel • 1:30 pm, June 5, 2018

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The iOS video player is pretty full-featured, although most of its advanced tracks are hidden. Today we’ll take a quick look at what it can do, including how to control the entire app from a hardware keyboard.

iOS video player tips and tricks

If all you do is play videos in full screen, then you’re probably missing out on some of the iOS video player’s neatest tricks. In the regular full-screen video view (the one you see when you maximize a video you’re watching in, for instance, Safari), you can access the following options:

• Skip back/forward 15 seconds.
• Pick an AirPlay destination for audio or video.
• Switch to Picture in Picture.

iOS video player keyboard commands

All of those are obvious, because they have their own buttons to tap, right there in the main video player view. But to see the really good stuff, you’ll need to use an external keyboard. If you have one, hook it up. Then press and hold the ⌘ Command key . This will activate a panel showing all the available keyboard shortcuts for the video player.

The most useful is play/pause, using the space bar . This works even if the player controls are not showing on-screen. Even if you’re not using the keyboard for anything else, this is a great reason to connect it when watching movies.

You can also control the iPad’s volume with most keyboards, if they have volume keys. But in the video player, you can also use the up and down arrows to do the same, which means you can use it even with very basic keyboards.

Skip forward and backward in iOS videos

Another favorite of mine is the 15-second skip. Just tap the left or right arrows to skip backward or forward. This is great if you just missed something on the video, and is super-duper handy if you’re watching a how-to video. I use it when learning to play songs on YouTube.

If you pause the video, tapping Shift plus left/right arrow will move you through the video a single frame at a time. If the video is playing, ⌘ left/right arrow will fast-forward or rewind the video as you watch.

Finally, you can always hit the Escape key to exit full-screen.

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The Safari Settings You Should Tweak Right Now

Your browser is your window onto the world, the app you rely on most during the day. You want to wring every last drop of usefulness out of it. It definitely pays to know all of the features and tricks your daily browser is capable of. For iOS users, that means mastering Safari: how to stay safe online, how to get stuff done faster, and more.

For a smoother online experience, take a few minutes to run through these Safari tweaks to make your life online a little smoother.

Safari is very concerned about the strength of your passwords—perhaps even more so than you are. To see whether you're using any weak passwords, or duplicating passwords across accounts, open the Safari menu and choose Preferences then Passwords . A yellow exclamation mark indicates a potential problem with one of your listed passwords.

You'll often want to carry on watching a video while doing something else, and Safari can help—with a video playing, click and hold the audio icon in the address bar, then choose Enter Picture in Picture . The pop-out video player can be repositioned and resized as needed, but keep the original tab open in the background while you work on other tasks.

Websites want a lot these days: access to your webcam, your mic, your location , and more. To check what a site does and does not have access to, click Safari then Settings for This Website . You can revoke any permissions you've previously given, stop content from auto-playing, and limit the number of pop-up windows that the website can show.

It's taken a long time for Safari to support favicons (the little icons that represent websites), so you might as well take advantage; they also help you identify open tabs more easily as well. From the Safari menu, choose Preferences then Tabs , and then tick the checkbox labeled Show website icons in tabs to apply the change to the browser.

Having access to your recent browsing history can be useful for retracing your online steps, but you don't need it to follow you around for years. Open Safari then Preferences , switch to the General tab, then open Remove history items —you can delete browsing logs automatically after a day, week, fortnight, month, or year.

By default Safari just shows the domain name of the site you're visiting in the address bar, but this can make it tricky to work out exactly where you are on the web. To see the full URL instead, you need to open up the Safari menu, then the Preferences dialog, then switch to the Advanced tab—make sure the Show full website address box is ticked.

No productivity hack is ever going to beat an intuitive keyboard shortcut or two. You'll find a full list for Safari here and here , but some of our favorites include Space (and Shift+Space ) to scroll, Cmd+W to close a tab, Ctrl+Tab (and Shift+Ctrl+Tab ) to scroll through open tabs, and Cmd+L to jump straight to the Safari address bar at the top.

Safari, like every other Apple app, can be fully controlled with your voice in macOS Catalina. To enable the feature, open the Apple menu then choose System Preferences , Accessibility , Voice Control , and Enable Voice Control . It lets you speak out numbers for menus and links, zoom in and out, and much more—there's a full list of commands here .

Safari has an entire Develop menu that's not displayed by default but which is very handy for power users. To show it, open the Safari menu then choose Preferences , then Advanced , then tick the box marked Show Develop menu in menu bar. The new menu then appears, enabling you to access options such as disabling images or extensions.

Clearing out a browser's cache can often improve performance in the long term, even if it takes a short-term hit while local files are refreshed and reset. To do this in Safari, you first need to enable the Develop menu (see the step above), then you can open it and choose Empty Caches . This wipes all of Safari's temporary files and data off the local disk.

Safari has borrowed a very useful feature from Windows: the ability to "snap" open tabs to the left or right of the screen, so you can compare two side-by-side. Open up the Window menu, then choose Tile Window to Left of Screen or Tile Window to Right of Screen to do just that—your other windows are then automatically docked on the opposite side.

Apple devices all play wonderfully well together, as long as you're signed in on the same Apple ID, and jumping between open tabs on different devices is a breeze. To do this on Safari on macOS, you need to click on the Show tab overview button in the top right corner; you'll then see Safari tabs from your other devices listed lower down.

Who has time to read everything during the working day? No one! So make use of Safari's built-in Reading List tool. Use the Plus button on the left side of the address bar to add articles to the Reading List, then click the Show sidebar button (or View and Show Reading List Sidebar ) to bring up the list of all the posts you've saved during the day.

Safari gives you more control than you might have realized over the buttons and options that appear on the toolbar—having the tools you use most often in easy reach can make a big difference to your online productivity. To make changes, select View then Customize Toolbar , then just drag and drop the icons you need most often into the toolbar.

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Do you want to increase your privacy on Safari or maybe make it more useful for you? To change your Safari preferences on an iOS device, you'll need to use your device's Settings app instead of the Safari app. On macOS computers, you can change the settings from Safari's Preferences menu. Both the mobile and the desktop share some similar settings, but the desktop version has many more options available.

Things You Should Know

• On an iPhone or iPad, go to your device's Settings app to change the general preferences of Safari.
• On Mac, change your general preferences in "Safari > Settings > General."
• Changing things like your search engine and preventing trackers will provide you with more privacy and increase your security.

• This method works for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch.
• Forgot your iPhone's password? You can reset it in 2 ways !

• The "Search Engine Suggestions" toggle will provide search suggestions from your default search engine as you type.
• The "Safari Suggestions" toggle provides search suggestions curated by Apple.

• Use the Safari app instead of Settings to change how your Home page behaves .

• You can enable or disable various search preferences underneath this menu, including using Safari Suggestions.

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How to customize the safari start page on iphone and ipad.

Make your Start Page clean and simple---or just as cluttered as you like it.

On your iPhone or iPad, you can easily customize the Safari Start Page in iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 (or higher). You can make the page blank (mostly), add a background image, or pick and choose what you want to see. Here's how.

First, open Safari on your iPhone or iPad and open a new tab by tapping the tabs button (two overlapping rectangles), then tapping the plus ("+") button.

You'll see Safari's "Start Page" by default. To edit what's on the Start Page, scroll down if necessary and tap the "Edit" button.

When you tap "Edit," a "Customize Start Page" window will appear. Use the switches beside the listed options to turn them on or off. Here's what each option does.

• Favorites: This displays items from your Favorites list (like bookmarks).
• Frequently Visited: You'll see a list of frequently visited websites.
• Shared With You: This gives you a list of items shared with you from other people through the Messages app.
• Privacy Report: This shows a report on the number of trackers Safari has blocked recently.
• Siri Suggestions: This displays suggestions from Siri related to what's in your history and bookmarks.
• Reading List: This shows items from your Reading List .
• iCloud Tabs: This shows Safari tabs that are synchronized across iCloud from your other devices.

While also in the "Customize Start Page" window, you can use the "three lines" handle beside each item to tap and drag the Start Page items in the list. This will change the order of how the items will appear on the Start Page.

And if you turn the switch beside "Background Image" into the "on" position, you can select a background picture that will display behind the content on your Start Page. Tap an image in the thumbnails or tap the plus ("+") button to select a custom image from your photo library.

If you want to make your Start Page as minimalist as possible, switch off every item on the "Customize Start Page" list. (Unfortunately, you'll still see the "Edit" button.)

When you're done, click the "X" button to close the Customize Start Page window. The changes you've made take effect immediately. Happy browsing!

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How to manage privacy and security settings in Safari on iPhone and iPad

Browsing on the internet is something most of us do just about every day, but there is always a slight element of danger, whether it's viruses, identity theft, or getting spoiled for Game of Thrones (DAMN IT).

If you want to have more control over your privacy and security while using Safari on your iPhone or iPad, here's how!

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Ever been looking at shoes and then shoe ads suddenly pop up on your Facebook feed? That's cross-site tracking and it's a way of monitoring your online behavior to better cater advertising toward you. If you don't like that, then you can turn it off in Safari like this:

• Launch Settings from your Home screen.
• Tap Safari . You'll have to scroll down to find it.
• Tap the switch next to Prevent Cross-Site Tracking . It's down under Privacy & Security .

Cookies are bits of your information that websites store in order to perhaps customize your experience in future or to save login information so that you don't have to constantly input your email address, for example. If you don't want Safari sites to save any of your info, then you can block all cookies like this:

• Tap the switch next to Block All Cookies . It's down under Privacy & Security .

Adding to the above-mentioned cross-site tracking information, you can also get Safari to send requests to websites asking them not to track your behavior. This is added padding in cross-site tracking prevention.

• Tap the switch next to Ask Websites Not To Track Me . It's down under Privacy & Security .

Safari can detect when websites are suspicious or may appear fraudulent, and if you enable the setting, you can get a warning before visiting those sites. You can also just hit "Ignore" if you know the site is legit.

• Tap the switch next to Fraudulent Website Warning . It's down under Privacy & Security . Green is on.

Some websites may want access to your camera and microphone — sites like Facebook — and Safari would therefore need that access. You can completely deny it like this:

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• Tap the switch next to Camera & Microphone Access . It's down under Privacy & Security .

Safari can automatically check to see if the site you're visiting supports Apple Pay. Here's how to enable it:

• Tap the switch next to Check for Apple Pay . It's down under Privacy & Security .

If you've been looking up J-Law's nudes or scheming on Xmas gifts for the wife and she also uses your phone, you can clear your Safari browsing history, which will also clear out your browsing data like cookies, login information, and more.

• Tap Clear History and Website Data .
• Tap Clear History and Data in the pop-up.

If you want to keep your browsing history but want to remove your data from Safari, you can just delete website data, which will remove cookies, login details, and more.

• Tap Advanced at the bottom of the page.

• Tap Website Data .
• Scroll to the bottom and tap Remove All Website Data .
• Tap Remove Now .

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How To Enable Autoplay On Your iPad

Do you want your iPad to automatically play videos, music, and other media? Enabling AutoPlay on your iPad is an easy way to ensure that you don’t miss out on any content or have to manually start playing media.

AutoPlay is a feature that allows your iPad to instantly play media when it recognizes a device or media type. For example, if you plug in headphones, the audio will start playing. Or if you insert a DVD into your iPad, the video will begin automatically.

To enable AutoPlay, open the Settings app on your iPad and select Bluetooth & Devices. Select AutoPlay, then toggle Use AutoPlay for all media and devices to turn it on. You can customize the default action for each type of media as well.

For videos specifically, you can choose Never Autoplay Videos in Safari settings for any website. To access this setting, open Safari and navigate to Safari > Settings for This Website in the menu bar. A window will appear that allows you to toggle site-specific preferences including auto-playing videos. Tap Settings & Privacy. Settings and scroll down to Media under Preferences. Here, select Never Autoplay Videos or toggle off Videos start with sound if you only want to disable sound for autoplay videos..

Enabling AutoPlay is a great way to make sure that your iPad automatically plays music and videos without having to manually start them yourself every time!

Enabling Autoplay in Safari on iPad

To turn on Autoplay in Safari on your iPad, open Safari and navigate to the website you wish to enable Autoplay for. Then, in the menu bar, select Safari > Settings for This Website. This will bring up a window that allows you to toggle site-specific preferences, including Autoplay. Toggle the switch next to Autoplay Videos to ‘On’, then click ‘Done’ and close the window. Autoplay should now be enabled for that website in Safari on your iPad.

Accessing Autoplay Settings on an iPad

On an iPad, you can disable autoplay videos by going to Settings & Privacy. Settings. Scroll down and tap Media under Preferences. Here, select the option “Never Autoplay Videos”. If you only want to disable sound for autoplay videos, there is a toggle switch that says “Videos start with sound” which you can switch off.

Locating the Autoplay Setting

To find the Autoplay setting within your settings, open the menu button at the top right of your screen. Scroll down and tap “Settings & Privacy,” then “Settings.” Scroll down until you find “Media and Contacts” and tap on it. Here you will be able to locate the Autoplay setting which you can then adjust as desired.

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• Advanced web video controls, speed playback, picture-in-picture, equaliser and enhancer • Video Settings for Safari can control your video playback (including speed) and enhance your viewing experience with effects like contrast, saturation or scale. It also lets you enjoy media in picture-in-picture mode or send videos to Apple TV. It contains a large variety of options and effects, so it's ideal for casual viewers or videographers alike. FEATURES • Speed playback control: watch video in any speed (slower of faster) • Playback progress control: skip or go back a fixed number of seconds • Watch videos in floating picture-in-picture mode • Send media to Apple TV (AirPlay) • Control the sound volume and apply it to every browser player • Automatically repeat playing videos • Apply cool effects: blur, brightness, contrast, grayscale, hue, saturation, sepia and colour invert • Control video geometry: scale, rotate, skew, flip, translate and change the ratio • Hotkeys: - Option + Command + I: increase video playback speed - Option + Command + D: decrease video playback speed SUPPORT We read your support emails every day, day by day. Write with confidence any question, feedback or complaint and you will receive an answer in a very short period of time.

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Speeds up videos but disables yt speed controls.

I have been using this for several weeks now and I like it. It speeds up all kinds of Videos even the Ads on YouTube that can't be skipped or sped up normally. It will even speed Facebook Live broadcasts. If you join a live webinar late and can rewind the playhead then you can speed up the content. When the playhead catches up to the LIVE content it will automatically slow down and go back to real time. From my testing if any video plays in your browser then this will speed it up. My only gripes are that it disables the speed controls in YouTube (and probably other video players). Once you install this extension you MUST use this extension to control the speed of video playback. This can be confusing if you are used to using YouTube's settings panel. I wish they still worked. Also, when you are in full screen mode and you use the hotkeys there is no visual indicator to show how fast you are playing back a video. For instance in "Video Speed Controller" (a similar Chrome extension) it will display briefly on the screen that you are at 1.50x or 1.60x as you increment up or down the speed controls. I would rather have that than the ding sound this makes which does tell you much other than a change was made. (Actually I find the ding sound to be intrusive and annoying and would like to turn it off. High speed playback requires more concentration and the ding ruins it.) Sometimes the controller will be set (I prefer 1.50x ) and a video will playback at normal speed until I make another adjustment or start and stop the video - then it will speed up. Or a video will playback at normal speed and then start to speed up midway through. This can be startling. I’d like to see more consistency. Finally, I wish there was to set it so it automatically resets the playback speed to normal speed or contains the speed settings to ONE browser tab. Because this a browser extension If you have multiple tabs open all your videos will receive the same setting. Or if you go from one video the next all the video will be sped up say 2x, which may not be appropriate for that content, until you change it. (That’s also a reason why someone might want to use the inbuilt YouTube speed controls instead of this - because their controls are on a per video basis, whereas this is on a global basis). Overall these are somewhat minor complaints that would make the product better if they are added in or addressed. I still gave it 5 stars because for my use case it works as promised. I watch private educational content sometimes on private class websites that don't always use YT or have speed controls in their settings and this has allowed me to consume hours of content in sometimes less than half the time.

Promising but unusable.

I bought this to use with periscope, but the videos I’ve tried won’t follow any of the geometry settings (the rotation options don’t even make sense), won’t follow the color processing in PiP, and insists on rotating the videos 90° clockwise in PiP (and as noted, won’t adjust them)... So…it’s unusable for me. I wish I could get my money back but instead I’ll just leave this warning.

Developer Response ,

Dear user, I tested the extension on Periscope and all options work just fine - I guess you need to make a browser restart, maybe the extension did not load correctly in Safari. Can you try that?

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